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SUMMARY:All Peoples of the Earth: Selections from the Berea College Art Collection
DESCRIPTION:Housed in the Dimitrie Berea Gallery\, this ongoing exhibition includes over 100 examples of visual art and material culture that emphasize the connections and experiences that humans share across cultures\, time\, and space. Because our permanent collection is so vast (with over 16\,500 objects!)\, artworks rotate on and off view throughout the year\, so there will be something new to see with every visit you make to the Galleries. \nVisual art and material culture – the things that people design with intention\, creativity\, and technical skill – have for ages provided insight into our belief systems and social customs\, our long-held traditions and day-to-day lives\, and how we see ourselves\, and one another\, as individuals. By closely considering the items that people make\, wear\, use\, and value\, we can learn something deeper about our shared humanity. \nThe selected artworks and objects from the Berea College Art Collection on display in All Peoples of the Earth are organized not by style\, date\, or culture of origin\, but instead by categories of human experience that connect us across time and space. Viewers may notice overlaps in some areas\, instances where these thematic groupings blur. For example\, should a painting of fishing boats be placed within “Observation & Documentation” or “Labor & Leisure”? Does a vessel used in tea ceremonies fit better within “Belief & Ritual” or “Fashion & Function”? These gray areas underscore the multifaceted functions that visual art and material culture can serve\, while also reflecting and exposing the challenges inherent in curatorial work and\, by extension\, all historical inquiry. In resisting easy classification\, art challenges us to be open to the possibility of multiple interpretations\, not only about visual culture but about our world – and ourselves – more broadly. \nStorytelling & Mythmaking \nArt has always been an important conduit for telling and passing down stories. From fictional narratives and historical accounts to mythical tales and religious texts\, people have turned to visual media to bring stories to life in ways that are thought-provoking\, convincing\, and deeply moving. \nThe artworks in this section represent a wide range of storytelling methods and speak to how literature\, the written and spoken word\, and the visual arts are all intertwined. At the same time\, these objects challenge us to consider how stories from the past are continuously constructed and made over\, how familiar narratives might shift when told or illustrated in a different or unexpected way\, and how visual media contributes to our understanding of what we believe to be true about the world. \nThis slideshow requires JavaScript. \n  \nObservation & Documentation \nSince the prehistoric era\, people have been compelled to record their observations for posterity\, documenting the landscape\, themselves and others\, and their personal surroundings in ways both realistic and imaginative. Through a variety of media – from painting\, drawing\, photography\, and printmaking – this selection of artworks provides visual evidence of the human impulse to document\, to make permanent and personal\, the world around them. \nThis slideshow requires JavaScript. \nLabor & Leisure \nThe value and dignity of labor is entrenched in Berea College culture as an integral part of the College’s mission and identity\, reflected in our Great Commitments and the Labor Program. At the same time\, leisure – rest and play – is equally important to our physical wellbeing\, mental health\, and intellectual and emotional development as individuals. Labor and leisure are often intertwined in our lives and are yet another instance of the human experience in which boundaries are blurred. As the artworks and objects in this section show\, the tasks we perform and objects we use for “work” are not always that far removed from the things we make and do for “fun.” How do labor and leisure overlap in your life? \nThis slideshow requires JavaScript. \nKinship & Care \nHow do we care for one another? Do the objects we surround ourselves with play a role in our relationships? Can art and material culture reflect the deep personal connections that people share or contribute to emotional caretaking and familial practices? \nArtists and makers throughout history have used their work to express love for another person\, to document strong family and community ties\, and to craft artworks and objects that provide warmth\, nourishment\, and fulfillment to those that use them. The artworks in this section emphasize kinship\, the passing down of traditions from one generation to the next\, the shared household\, and the creation of community through common belief systems and rituals – and in doing so\, these objects have something significant to say about the ways that we seek to connect with other people. \nThis slideshow requires JavaScript. \nPattern & Abstraction \nWhat first comes to mind when you think of “pattern”? Like familiar plaid pillows on a much-loved sofa or the orderly stripes of a favorite t-shirt\, patterns can be found all around us. \nPattern is often rooted in a formula\, a structured system that repeats in predictable and satisfying ways. Abstraction\, however\, can be more fluid\, more surprising\, or even seemingly-irrational. Despite these differences\, pattern and abstraction have much in common in both art and everyday life. In viewing the abstract and patterned artworks in this section\, reconsider your first impressions. What appears like a haphazard arrangement of random shapes and colors might come into focus as a careful display of harmoniously balanced hues\, textures\, and lines; or you may find that an apparently strict pattern may in fact subvert expectations of uniform rigidity. \nThis slideshow requires JavaScript.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/all-peoples-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:Dimitrie Berea Gallery
CATEGORIES:Current Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Meza-DesPlas: A Meandering Line
DESCRIPTION:A Meandering Line is on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from September 3 through October 10\, 2025. Rosemary Meza-DesPlas will give an artist talk on Friday\, Sept. 5\, at 12:00pm\, and will host a drawing workshop on Friday\, Sept. 5\, at 2:30pm in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. For more information\, visit our Events page.\n\n\n \n \nA Meandering Line features meticulously embroidered human hair artworks by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas. Artist Paul Klee once stated\, “A line is a dot that went for a walk.” In Meza-DesPlas’ artwork\, line is human hair. Line variations in her work suggest emotion\, texture\, three-dimensionality\, and movement. This exhibition showcases experimentations and documents the evolutionary process of working with the first fiber: hair. These artworks reflect material culture\, display sewing dexterity\, communicate figuration\, and manifest themes. Material culture of hair connects medium and meaning: this common fiber correlates to age and beauty. Identity and femininity resonate in Meza-DesPlas’ art. Her hand stitching can be contextualized\, art historically\, within the 1970s women’s craft movement; however\, she is translating drawing techniques into the sewn line. A self-taught stitcher\, she has sewn with her natural hair color\, dyed hair\, and graying hair.\n\n\n\n \nRosemary Meza-DesPlas\, a multidisciplinary Latina/Coahuiltecan artist\, incorporates fiber art\, drawing\, installation\, painting\, performance art\, and video into her studio practice. Through figurative artwork\, she amplifies the voices of women and their lived experiences. Socio-cultural issues\, gender-based burdens\, and political agency are explored through an intersectional feminist lens. The tenacity of her eight aunts in the face of personal tragedies and adversities was an early inspiration; their narratives contributed to her embrace of feminist ideology. Thematic continuity links Meza-DesPlas’ visual artwork with her academic writing and poetry. This written discourse provides a foundation for her performance artwork. In 2022\, she was honored with a Latinx Artist Fellowship by the Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, she was awarded a grant in 2022 to create and stage a new performance artwork. Her work has been exhibited at many museums\, including the Museum of Sonoma County\, Spartanburg Art Museum\, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art\, Koehline Museum of Art\, and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Meza-DesPlas received a BFA from the University of North Texas and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/rosemary-meza-desplas/
LOCATION:Lower Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Anne Mondro: Tethered
DESCRIPTION:Anne Mondro: Tethered is on view in the Upper Traylor Gallery from September 10 through October 17\, 2025. Anne Mondro will give an artist talk on Friday\, Oct. 10 at 12:00pm in the Upper Traylor Gallery in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. For more information\, visit our Events page. \nAnne Mondro: Tethered is a series of intricately woven wire sculptures that reflect on the complex and often conflicting emotions associated with being a caregiver and care recipient simultaneously. Drawing from the artist’s personal experience as a mother and cancer survivor\, Mondro processes the complex and often conflicting emotions with this experience through her making. Tethered seeks to portray these emotions as well as the impact that caring has in our healing. \nMondro is a studio artist\, arts and health practitioner\, and a professor in the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design. Her artwork has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Ceres Gallery\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Powerhouse Museum of Science and Design\, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Mondro’s work is in the permanent collections of the University of Michigan Hospital and the Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Her arts and health research focuses on designing and facilitating visual art programming for people living with dementia and their caregivers\, with the intention of increasing social interaction\, supporting learning and discovery\, and building relationships. Mondro’s initiatives include Artful Approach™ and Retaining Identity: Creativity and Caregiving\, programs for caregivers to learn how to engage people living with dementia in visual art activities. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Family Caregiver Alliance’s 2015 Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award in Creative Expression for her course Memory\, Aging & Expressive Arts. Mondro has presented at national and international conferences on creative aging and dementia care including the Association for Medical Humanities (2021)\, the British Society of Gerontology (2018)\, 9th Annual International Arts and Health Conference (2017)\, Culture\, Health & Wellbeing International Conference (2017)\, and the National Center for Creative Aging (2016).
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/anne-mondro-tethered/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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