Throughout the Middle East, millions of refugees are migrating due to contested territories: some will return home while others will likely resettle in different parts of the world. Global power struggles for oil along with the colonizing impulses of Western governments continue to cause borderlines to shift, forcing communities and families to leave their homes [...]

Art making is a way for me to explore our changing relationship with work. My research focuses on transitions in macroeconomic structures through the lens of their effects on individual lives, communities, and worker’s relationships to the structures of labor itself. I’ve paid witness to the demise of opportunities to engage in meaningful work and [...]

Artist Statement: I began making photographs back home as a way to document mountaintop removal coal mining. Be it naiveté or an honest-to-god belief that I could somehow be part of ending this disastrous practice; I thought I could make photographs that would be convincing enough to grind those wheels to a halt. I came [...]

Artist Statement: In recent studio work I have been constructing a series of storage vessels whose shape and surface imagery explore the concept of fermentation. To “ferment” means to undergo fermentation, to slowly brew, fizz or foam. To “ferment” also means to incite or stir up. I am interested in the dual nature of this [...]

Born in Taiwan and grew up in Thailand with a western education, Eleen Lin is a third culture kid inhabiting in non-places of generic cities.  In the age of cultural cannibalism where everything is brought together and rearranged to formulate new identities, she reiterates folklores and classical literatures into contemporized cross-cultural narratives.  The Pet series [...]

Mrs. Franklin D. (Eleanor) Roosevelt, when she visited the Loom Room of Lou Tate, was attracted by the drafts and coverlets of early Kentucky women. Her keen interest centered on the overshot weave -- typical weave of the coverlets woven by women on their four-harness handlooms. She was photographed with Lou Tate while admiring this [...]

This exhibition showcases the work of our Art Majors who will graduate in December 2015.

My work explores the deluge of ephemeral text and imagery presented by media and how this cacophony of imagery has altered our understanding of the globalized landscape it presents. The bombardment of information that streams on social media sites and news outlets create a sense of urgency that is intensely focused on the NOW. The [...]

Artist’s Statement The exploration of the overlap and interrelation between child play, desire, adult play, and sensuality informs the basis of my art. Many of our toys were handed down from generation to generation including Lincoln Logs, Lego’s, and wooden blocks. I capture the appeal of those toys that endured time and technology. In someway, [...]

Artist Statement: I have always felt a strong kinship with the craft traditions of Berea College. My maternal grandfather was from Eastern Kentucky and in addition to farming and working in the coal mines, he made simple furniture and household items out of cherry, walnut, and poplar. Typically, and like many of his peers, if [...]