Join exhibition co-curator and 2025 Lloyd Library & Museum Artist-in-Residence Sara Torgison for a talk on More-Than-Human Medicine, an exploration of human interdependence with plant and animal species that have supported our wellness across centuries. Torgison will discuss her use of craft processes as a way of reclaiming time, from researching plants and carefully stitching them into fabric to rendering animals as precious, quasi-religious archetypes. Drawing on histories of both craft and fine art, the work reflects on the intimate, ephemeral relationships between humans and the materials they engage, foregrounding care, devotion, and material connection.
Sara Torgison is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in ceramics and fiber art. She received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning and a BFA (ceramics) and BS (Zoology) from Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, CA. Her work often blends media, extending finite and fragile surfaces to emphasize and inhabit marginal spaces. Strange alliances formed in passages between hard and soft substances are resonant of the shifts inherent in navigating public and private life, and the distance between self and other. Sara teaches ceramics at Queen City Clay, is seasonal faculty at the University of Cincinnati, and works as a preparator at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.