On display in the Dimitrie Berea Gallery, this exhibit 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 16,000 objects!), artworks will rotate on and off view throughout the year, so [...]

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 [...]