Join us for an evening of history inspired creativity
as members of the regional artistic community share how the Filson’s
collections have aided in their pursuits of self-expression.
The Filson has established a long-standing
relationship with the art community as a resource for artistic research dating
way back to Enid Yandel consulting with our founder, William Durrett while
preparing studies for her Daniel Boone sculpture. Several regional
artists have made donations of materials to our collection and continue
conducting research for creative projects making history relevant in today’s
contemporary art world.
To celebrate the newly launched Filson’s History
Inspires Fellowship, musicians and visual artists that have recently utilized
the Filson s collections will share about the materials that where the muse for
a body of work.
Rannygazoo
is Abigail Bailey Maupin and Gregory Maupin, scavengers of the mildewed
sheet music left behind in the grandma’s attics of American history. They
have a particular focus on songs of illegal hooch and scandalous women with
ukulele and mouth noise accompaniment.
An artist, designer, sculptor, and
Louisville native, Guy Tedesco has focused his long and diverse career
on monumental sculptural public artworks of spiritual and historical themes,
created to inspire communities and individual viewers alike. Continually working
with government entities at home and abroad, religious organizations of many
faiths, public groups, foundations, corporations, and private clients, Tedesco
has had his work placed in many areas of the USA and multiple nations around
the world, including a bronze bust in private offices at the Vatican in Rome.
Louisville-based artist and
educator Susanna Crum makes prints, drawings, sculptures, and animations
that investigate historical printed artifacts as messages to the future. She
has conducted research-based, site-specific projects at locations like
Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA; Kunstnerhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway; Edinburgh
Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.?
Tim Furnish, a graphic designer,
photographer, and musician (bands Parlour/Crain) makes performative/real-time
audio reactive projected visuals under the alias, Seethings. His mechanical
engineer and musician brother, Simon Furnish will accompany him with music
performed with modular synthesizers.