Join us for
an evening of history inspired creativity showcasing the Filson’s History
Inspires Fellowship recipients. This program features the 2025 cohort of
fellows, Lori Larusso, Moira Magre, and Sarah Pennington, who will share how their
research in the collections and the items they found were a source of inspiration
for the resulting creative projects.
Lori
Larusso is an
American visual artist working primarily with themes of domesticity and
foodways. Lori found inspiration from the H. Harold Davis collection of
food photography and the Kentucky cookbook collection to create a series of
paintings and small installations.
Moria
Magre is a Mixed
Media and Cosplay Artist who explored articles of clothing in the Filson’s
collections that predate the ready-made paper sewing patterns that began in the
late 1910s. Her research led her to virtually deconstruct the clothing and
create downloadable patterns for sharing.
Sarah Pennington an artist and writer, researched the Filson’s
materials related to suffrage in Kentucky. This resulted in a piece using a
docupoetic approach, a style of writing that incorporates poetic techniques
such as erasure, collage, found poetry and poetic retellings of events, showcasing
the history of voting rights and disenfranchisement in the region.