ABSTRACTION / PATTERN / GEOMETRY / DESIGN highlights a curated selection of over 60 artworks from the Berea College Art Collection that showcase how artists and makers utilizing different styles, methods, places, and time periods have relied on and experimented with abstraction, pattern, geometry, and design in their work, to different ends and for varying [...]

Capturing ordinary moments with wit, sentiment, and tenderness, the artworks on view in "Around & Around Again" welcome us into conversation about the circularities of human experience that transcend both time and individual circumstance: the moments of full freedom felt by children at play; the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood; the associations of ‘home’ [...]

Meredith Setser, a fibers artist and art professor at Indiana University, creates large-scale abstract textile works composed of handmade felt that explore the current cultural landscape figuratively. On a visual level, the works in Meredith Setser: Immaculate Crude reference the history of textile craft and Setser's interests in geology and ecological sciences. Setser's work will [...]

The Berea College Art Collection is home to over 250 artworks by Emily Grace Hanks (American, 1886-1962), an artist, educator, and inventor who specialized in observational drawing, painting, and illustration. Though Hanks or her work isn’t well-known today, her career was extremely multifaceted and provides an excellent case study of the pathways that were available [...]

The black and white photographs featured in this exhibition present images of intimacy, examining the spiritual, emotional, physical, intellectual and experiential aspects of this essential component of the human experience. A gesture, a touch, bodies leaning into one another; a white sun above the Pacific Ocean; a nude self-portrait hidden in the branches of a [...]

This week-long pop-up exhibition features work by Student Craft Apprentices Casandra Cutter and Charlie Trowbridge. Casandra and Charlie spent several months making, learning, and sharing their expertise at Student Craft, culminating in the work shared in this show. Casandra Cutter is a broom maker and folk craft disciple currently living and working in South Texas under [...]

The annual Senior Exhibition showcases bodies of work made by graduating Studio Art majors. Catharsis: Senior Exhibition showcases examples of paintings, prints, sculpture, and fiber arts that are spread through the Upper Traylor Gallery, Lower Traylor Gallery, Masterpiece Gallery, and the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery.  The exhibition will be open from Friday, April 11, through [...]

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 [...]