Past Exhibit
Events
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Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record
FeaturedUpper Traylor GalleryTo 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.
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Marika Christofides: Life Cycles
FeaturedLower Traylor GalleryLife 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 [...]
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Eddy López: verso(s)
FeaturedUpper Traylor GalleryVerso 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 [...]
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The Illustrated Memoir Project
FeaturedTredennick GalleryOn view in the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery are memoirs produced as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Illustrated Memoir Project engages refugee and immigrant youth to write and illustrate true stories from their lives. The goal of this project is to foment intellectual self-trust in the [...]
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Laura Colomb: Sinkhole
FeaturedUpper Traylor GalleryLaura Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic sites and preserve land within Florida, a place she sees as one of many dualities. For Colomb, the sinkhole embodies this duality. Sinkholes create crystal clear natural springs for swimming and diving, but they can also destroy lives and property within seconds, holding both intense wonder and terror [...]
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Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing
FeaturedLower Traylor GalleryLiz Ensz: Ground Truthing features works of textiles and sculpture that explore the semblance of place as understood through cartographic measurements, embodied experiences, and technological mediations. Responding to the Lower Traylor Gallery’s architecture, and informed by the stratigraphy of the geological record, this exhibition embraces spatial and temporal disorientation as a device for shifting perspective [...]
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Isaac Couch: Occupied
FeaturedTredennick GalleryOccupied features a collection of work shirts and tarps that textile artist and designer Isaac Couch calls Ghosts. These Ghosts refer to embodiments of energies from the past that manifest themselves in the present. As Couch says, "At the current political and economic moment, we are reminded yet again that history repeats itself if we [...]
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reframing: women artists in the berea college art collection
FeaturedMasterpiece Gallery Berea, KY, United StatesThis exhibition has concluded but a virtual catalog and exhibition gallery can be accessed here. During the Spring 2025 semester, students in ARH/WGS 243: Women in Art explored the roles that women have played in the history of art across time as artists, as subjects, and as active agents of change. Towards this goal, we [...]
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Mirage: Senior Exhibition
FeaturedLower Traylor GalleryLocated in the Lower Traylor Gallery, the annual Senior Exhibition showcases examples of paintings, prints, drawings, and multimedia works made by graduating Studio Art majors. The exhibition will be open from Wednesday, April 9, through Wednesday, April 30. A reception with artist talks and snacks will be held Wednesday, April 23, 3:30-5:30, in the Rogers-Traylor [...]
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All Peoples of the Earth: Selections from the Berea College Art Collection (2025-2026)
FeaturedDimitrie Berea GalleryHoused 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 [...]