My Story

Brooke Morrison is a multidisciplinary visual and performance artist from Louisville, Kentucky. She was always interested in different forms of artistic expression. Brooke loved to find the magic in the mundane: she was heavily influenced by growing up working mostly with classical texts such as Shakespeare throughout her childhood and adolescence. After moving to Seattle, Washington to earn her B.F.A. in Original Works, Brooke worked with several experimental and regional Theaters as well as local Pacific NorthWest musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists to create immersive multimedia performances where audiences can connect to their sense of playfulness with their surroundings. Brooke also uses her mischievous Kentucky roots as inspiration for several plays and characters, one being an ongoing Solo Performance project called “Merdle Sprinkley’s Big Show” where Brooke blends characterized stories and true stories from her Kentucky Family across the state, performed in Seattle and Louisville. Brooke’s work has been produced and/or developed by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Base Experimental Arts (Seattle, WA), Studio Current (Seattle, WA) and Cornish College of the Arts. Awards include: New Voices Playwright’s Festival Recipient (Actors Theatre of Louisville). She has worked as an artistic intern at The Playwright’s Center as well as Literary and Dramaturgy intern at ACT Theatre. Brooke has also participated in several virtual performances and workshops as playwright, dramaturg and director. Brooke earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with an emphasis in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. 

In 2020, Brooke longed for making artwork while connecting to her Kentucky roots. Circumstances opened the path for her to move back to Louisville and create art while studying her family’s heritage and the land around her. While learning how to be an artist in an often virtual and newly-distanced world, Brooke decided to return to the art of rug hooking after a lesson from her grandmother, an expert rug hooker. Brooke’s work is frequently inspired by nature, particularly moths. Each custom rug is carefully crafted over the course of many hours using hand-dyed wool. Brooke’s work has been exhibited at Snide Hotel is Louisville, KY in 2022.

Brooke Morrison aims to find a way to find the fantasy in the reality of nature through performance and rug making to create moments of connection and joy to audiences across the nation.