MFA Candidate Featured in UGA Grad Magazine

MFA Candidate Cristina Echezarreta was featured in the Winter 2019 issue of UGA Graduate Magazine for her work, which is causing a “buzz” around campus.

“In the process of working with the Georgia Prison Beekeeping program, the graduate student has brought her twin interests, art and entomology, together. And this year, she adopted similar ideas in order to curate an art exhibition with fellow artists at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.”

Miami raised artist Cristina Echezarreta observes and responds to her ecological surroundings and her relationship with it. Influenced by the delicate and intrinsic natural functions that occur in our world, she uses botany, entomology, memories, and relationships as tools to capture what these fields have in common, and magnifies their attributes at a microscopic and macroscopic level. Her current research at The University of Georgia also includes social engagement project within prison populations, art, and honeybees.

Botany and entomology play a large role in Cristina Echezaretta’s work as she attempts to experiment with mediums and processes like photosynthesis, pollination, and cellular function in her installations.​

Read the article here to learn more about her artwork, involvement in the Georgia Prison Beekeeping Project, and collaboration with other Lamar Dodd Graduate Students on The Florida Room: A Collaboration From the Sunshine State.