Past Exhibit
Graduation Exhibit for Art Majors
The collective body of work that extends through the Upper and Lower Traylor galleries, are the result of years of hard work in which our graduating art students the opportunity to show their artistic skill. Senior Artists Noah Broomfield, Ceramics Callie Denham, Sculpture Felicia Flesch, Ceramics Sara Gallimore, Printmaking Cayla Jones, Painting O.H. Jackson Napier, [...]
Trophy Hunted by Corinne Teed
Upper Traylor GalleryAs a research-based artist, my work explores identity in the context of human and non-human animal interactions. Through printmaking, installation, time-based media and participatory projects, I collaboratively re-imagine multispecies communities of cross-species empathy in this era of environmental devastation and climate change. I often include participatory and collaborative practices to integrate others’ voices and experiences [...]
Juried Alumni Exhibition
Lower Traylor GalleryDoris Ulmann Galleries is proud to announce the opening of its first Juried Alumni Exhibition. Held in the Lower Traylor Gallery of the Rogers-Traylor Art Building, the show will be on display from Oct. 1 until Nov. 17, 2017. A closing reception is scheduled 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17, to kick off Homecoming weekend. Kelly [...]
Private Sanctuaries by Lisa Kriner
Upper Traylor GalleryAn exhibition of new work by Lisa L. Kriner, Berea College Professor of fibers and Printmaking.
The Department of Human Capital
Rogers GallerySarah Irvin Artist Statement My practice is enabled by and exists within the context of motherhood as both a lived experience and social construct. By responding to the biological act of bearing an infant and the discipline of care-taking that is the commitment to “mother” a child, I seek to open up a dialog [...]
The Art of Collaboration
Lower Traylor Gallerycurated 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 [...]
Composed Construct
Upper Traylor GallerySusan 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 [...]
Made for Use
Rogers GalleryCurated by Philip Wiggs
Dragonslayer by Alexander Hanson
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 [...]
“Openings” by Melanie Johnson
Lower Traylor GalleryAbout the Artist: Melanie Johnson received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. She is Associate Professor of Art & Design and co-coordinator of the Foundations Program at the University of Central Missouri. She lives in Kansas City. Artist Statement: I make large scale figurative drawings and paintings using imagery derived from observation and composite sources. Narrative is employed loosely in [...]