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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Life Cycles features digital collage-based print works by Oklahoma-based artist Marika Christofides that depict abstracted biomorphic forms in various stages of transformation. Motifs change and replicate across the works in the exhibition, mimicking the stages of an organism’s biological development. The works in Marika Christofides: Life Cycles explore what it means to “become” through a [...]

Verso is the reverse of something, a coin, a painting, a photograph. Verso, in Spanish, is a conjunction of words that make up a poem. Eddy López: verso(s) is a print media exploration on the dangers of nostalgia and representation using photographs and writings from the Nicaraguan revolution and civil war of the 1970s and [...]