Doris Ulmann Galleries

Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection
2024-08-28 - 2025-03-14 | Masterpiece Gallery, Berea, KY, United States
Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection, located in our Masterpiece Gallery, centers artwork and artifacts that engage with the landscape, labor, craft traditions, and people that have called the Appalachian region home. Well-known artists and photographers including Henry Ossawa Tanner, Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, and Aaron Siskind are presented alongside lesser known and unrecorded artists and makers who either came from or traversed the region and felt inspired to document what they saw. Though by its very nature incomplete – as all exhibitions are – this show seeks to highlight what makes Appalachia so beloved and special and to encourage visitors to think deeply about the rich, complicated history of how this place and its people have been presented in visual art and culture.
Special thanks to our colleagues at Loyal Jones Appalachian Center and Hutchins Library and our summer intern, Joshua Kells (Berea College Class of 2026) for their invaluable contributions to this show.

Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art
2024-09-04 - 2024-10-11 | Lower Traylor Gallery
The Doris Ulmann Galleries is excited and honored to be the final stop on the tour of the Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art exhibition. Prior to arriving at Berea College, this exhibition of carefully carved and painted wooden sculptures was featured at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum in Louisville and the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University.
Please join us Wednesday, September 4, at 4:30 for our first program of the academic year! In celebration of the opening of Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, author Karen Money and the artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will be with us to talk about their work and the process of organizing this very special traveling exhibition, which developed out of Abney’s dedicated work writing a book on the Moneys’ collaborative art practice. Abney’s book, of the same title, is available at most local booksellers in the state and online.
Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art and associated events are co-sponsored by the Doris Ulmann Galleries and the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center and are generously supported by the William A. and Leola Piper Boyce Art Exhibition Endowment Fund.

Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record
2024-09-11 - 2024-10-18 | Upper Traylor Gallery
To Walk, To Remember, To Record, featuring work by Professor of Art Lisa Kriner, explores the act of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording my experiences of the spaces around me through drawings, embroidery, and handweaving.

Artist Talk with Lisa Kriner
2024-09-20 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Upper Traylor Gallery
Berea College’s Professor of Art Lisa Kriner will be giving an artist talk on Friday, September 20, at 12:00pm that will address the works featured in the exhibition, Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record, which explores the artist’s acts of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording those experiences through drawings, embroidery, and handweaving. The exhibition is on view in the Upper Traylor Gallery from September 11 through October 18.
Refreshments and snacks will be available after the talk. This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
