marissa erickson an artist, jeweler, and object maker, living and working on unceded Hinono’ei (or Arapaho), Tsistsistas (or Cheyenne), and Nuche (or Ute) land otherwise known as Denver, CO.

marissa’s work weaves through mediums of metals, textile, photo, found objects, video, performance, and bio matter, and is concerned with telling stories of the body. her work observes stories of relationship; one hand to another, our beliefs to the beliefs before them, the relationship the cracks of a palm have to a seed, mold to a ripe fruit, a body to a memory,.

marissa studied anthropology (B.A.), diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (B.A.), and earned a studio art (minor) at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she focused in sculpture, jewelry/the body, and animation. her research interests include disability futurism and rhetorics, illness/accessibility, queer futurism, intimacy politics, and challenging biases through the body as a site of expression, identity, and connection.

marissa has worked as a ceramics studio and metals studio assistant, cultural research assistant, and graphic designer. her ethnographic research has taken her as far as Japan where she researched post-pandemic social connection and agrotourism in three different regions in Japan. her individual research concerns disability justice in higher education institutions through universal design.