Event List
More-Than-Human Medicine Artist Talk
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
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.
Fungal Communication
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
At Lloyd Library & Museum
Fungal Communication invites audiences to rethink what it means to communicate with the more-than-human world. Blending mycology, philosophy, foraging practice, and reflections from her debut book Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life, Gabrielle Cerberville explores fungi not as metaphors for connection, but as living beings whose ways of sensing, exchanging, decomposing, and world-making challenge human assumptions about individuality, intelligence, and relationship. Cerberville ponders how foraging could renew practices of attention, reciprocity, humility, and responsibility.
Gabrielle Cerberville, otherwise known as Chaotic Forager and sometimes as the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, is a celebrated foraging educator, community mycologist, climate advocate, and author of Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life. A current PhD student at the University of Virginia in the Music Composition and Computer Technologies program, Gabrielle researches the intersection between art, science, and our responsibility to understand, protect, and communicate with the natural world.
Dye Garden Walk & Workshop
From 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.
At Weavers Guild of Cincinnati
4870 Gray Road, Cincinnati, OH 45232
Take a walk though the garden with us and explore the art and tradition of natural dyeing with the Weavers Guild of Cincinnati. A tour of the Guild’s carefully planned dye garden, where plants are grown specifically for use in coloring fibers and textiles will be followed by a tour the historic house. We’ll enjoy light refreshments, and have the opportunity to create their own naturally dyed bandana during an optional hands-on activity ($5 materials fee directly to the Guild at the time of the event).
The Weavers Guild of Cincinnati was created in 1948 as a non-profit educational organization to promote interest in handweaving. Today, the guild offers education in a wide range of fiber processes and techniques, including weaving, felting, spinning, basketry, knitting, and dyeing.
Therapy Animals in Care and Community
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
At Lloyd Library & Museum
Pet Partners of Greater Cincinnati shares how trained therapy animal teams bring comfort, emotional support, and meaningful connection to people across the region. Combining scientific research with firsthand experiences, this program highlights the therapeutic power of human-animal relationships and the growing role of therapy animals in health and wellness.
Pet Partners of Greater Cincinnati is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization founded in 2004 as the tri-state resource for Sharing The Love of Therapy Animals. They are proud to be a Community Partner of Pet Partners, a national AAA/AAT organization, with nearly 200 volunteer therapy teams providing Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) throughout the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky metro area.
From Folklore to Pharmacy: The Eclectic’s Mastery of Ergot
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
At Lloyd Library & Museum
The ergot fungus (Claviceps purpurea) has a dark history, linked to St. Anthony’s Fire and the collapse of Peter the Great’s 1722 Ottoman campaign after ergot-infected rye poisoned soldiers and horses. Yet for centuries it was also used by midwives as pulvis ad partum (“powder for birth”), though misuse later earned it the name pulvis ad mortem (“powder for death”). Eclectic Medicine helped refine ergot into stable, reliable medicines through improved extraction methods. Today, ergot-derived compounds remain important treatments for migraines and postpartum hemorrhage, linking folklore with modern pharmacology.
Kimberly Gwinn is a Professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at University of Tennessee. Her research explores the ecological roles of natural compounds in interactions among humans, animals, and the environment, with a focus on biopesticides from agricultural waste and microbial toxins in plant-based products. She teaches courses on medicinal plant and microbial products and is nationally recognized for advancing STEM education through undergraduate research.
From Inflammation to Connection: Lessons from the Living World
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
At Lloyd Library & Museum
In From Inflammation to Connection: Lessons from the Living World herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt explores what the living world can teach us about resilience, relationship, and balance through the lens of herbalism, ecology, and personal experience. Blending modern insights on chronic inflammation with traditional plant wisdom, Rosalee will share how healing is not just about herbs and symptoms, but about restoring connection: within ourselves, with one another, and with the living world around us. Along the way, she’ll highlight a handful of medicinal plants and the deeper lessons they offer about how we live and care for ourselves.
Rosalee de la Forêt is the founder of the Herbs with Rosalee online school, a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, and the author of two bestselling books (Alchemy of Herbs and Wild Remedies). Rosalee has had the joy of working with tens of thousands of students from all over the world—through in-depth courses, free classes, and a weekly podcast that celebrates one healing plant at a time.
Beyond the Gate Opening Reception
From 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Kent Krugh’s multi-exposure images in Beyond the Gate invite viewers to experience time as layered and interconnected, linking past, present, and future through evocative portraits of trees. Expanding on his acclaimed series Inside the Gate, Krugh superimposes moments at sites deeply rooted in the Lloyd Brothers' history from the woods of Crittenden, Kentucky, to Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, and Ithaca, New York. His organic, botanical imagery conveys reflection, patience, and a sense of calm while honoring place, history, and memory.
