The annual Senior Exhibition showcases bodies of work made by graduating Studio Art majors. This year, "dis/comfort: Senior Exhibition" features pieces of mixed media, paintings, prints, and handmade books.  The exhibition will be open from Tuesday, April 11, through Wednesday, May 3. A reception with artist talks and snacks will be held Wednesday, April 26, 3:30-5:00, [...]

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 [...]