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On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past is an exhibition reimagining the historic house through the work of five contemporary artists. each drawing on the house's architecture, time period, and stories to explore the theme "On Being American." Curator Susan Hardy reflects that, "If you look at the whole of the installation, you see so much more than the history you would associate with a 161-year- old mansion. A bigger story unfolds and conversation beg

Entitled Patterns in Color and Flow, Wright’s installation transforms the Lippitt House Music Room through immersive images and regional waterways, offering viewers an opportunity to reflect on the unseen systems of labor and the histories flowing beyond the frame which allow the Lippitt House to exist.

Lynne Harlow’s evocative cotton installation on the floor of the library contemplates the question, “how little is enough?”

Textile artist Amalia Goldona Broche’s trio or textile works center the experiences and memories of the laborers that sustained life at the Lippitt House.

Displayed in the Dining Room of the Lippitt House Museum as part of the exhibition On Being American | Contemporary Artworks, Echoes of the Past, Easton’s works invite the viewer to contemplate the house’s architecture and interior, the Victorian period’s fascination with ornamentation, and materiality as a conveyor of cultural value.

If one were to enter the Drawing Room at the Lippitt House Museum, see the small-scale sculptural works installed on individual white pedestals, and ask, “What are these?,” this would be exactly the response artist Susan Hardy hopes to provoke.