History Inspires Showcase
Please join us for a meet and greet with the Fellowship recipients from 5:30-5:55 p.m., followed by the program at 6:00 p.m.
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.
