Decomposing the Monument to the Third International is an interactive art project that considers how the practices of art, food, and education might be drawn together in order to plug some of the microflows of capital distribution. The hope is to encourage a rising-up of human essence that is based on creating networks of survival whereby the fulfillment of our most basic needs opens-up [...]

curated by Sheridan Bischoff, '18 A solitary artist is not a stereotype for a printmaker. Printmaking is a medium with a long history of collaboration. Great printmakers often were the heads of workshops where apprentices would learn the skills of the trade in exchange for their contribution to the art. In contemporary art, collaboration is [...]

  Susan Beiner Artist Statement   The most recent concerns in my work deal with making what is organic synthetic. In todays’ world, most everything is manufactured of artificial materials. This extends to what was once all natural. Genetically altered foods, cloned animals and the hybridization of everything. Clay and ceramic materials for the most [...]

Alexander Hanson I want to know how we think we can ascertain anything optimistic about the world when we insist on looking through dirty glasses. My creative research focuses on the use of objects, constructed and found, as a way to ask pointed questions related to faith; and the use or abuse of it in [...]

Artist Talk: October 25, 4:30pm   Artist Statement: My work is about the experience of place and time and how those experiences come together. For the work in this series, I used two books as inspiration, the novel, Forgotten Country, by Catherine Chung; and Difficult Fruit by poet Lauren Alleyne. My goal was, to paraphrase the artist [...]

Artist Talk: Thursday, November 1, 4:30pm   Artist Statement: My work re-examines the grand metaphorical narrative as a way of exploring both personal content and universal themes within the contemporary human experience. I do this through creating large scale multi-figure drawings and paintings. My narratives present a mixed cast of mythical, iconic, historical, and modern-day [...]

Join is in the Doris Ulmann Galleries for the opening of our Mid-Year Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors. In this special show, four graduating Studio Art students will publicly present their work to the Berea campus and community at large. On November 15 at 4:30pm, participants will deliver talks about their pieces, giving visitors an [...]

Exhibition Run: January 14 - February 15, 2019 Artist Talk: February 7, 4:30pm   About the Artist: Using traditional and contemporary patchwork quilt patterns, Laura Petrovich-Cheney creates complex and vibrant sculptures from debris that was collected after natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy (2013), Gatlinburg, TN Fires (2015), and a series of nor’easters that pounded [...]

Cataclysmic Microcosm Jave Yoshimoto My work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory [...]

Exhibition run: April 11 - May 5, 2019 Artist talk and Opening Reception: April 11, 4:30pm