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SUMMARY:Student Pop-Up Exhibit: Abryanna Reeder & Ellen Schley
DESCRIPTION:For one week only starting on Monday\, February 27\, Art students Abryanna Reeder (Class of 2023) and Ellen Schley (Class of 2024) are exhibiting work in the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery. On view through Friday\, March 3\, these artworks were created last semester in Prof. Dan Fineberg’s Sculpture and Intermedia course. The Tredennick Gallery is located to the right of the reception desk on the “Traylor” side of the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. \nAbryanna Reeder is an Art major from the foothills of Appalachia in the northeastern region of Kentucky. She is committed to finding ways to incorporate her knowledge of the land\, farming\, and place attachments into her art. \nEllen Schley is a junior Art major from Sterling\, Ohio. She is interested in making art that can be interacted with and experienced by the audience.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/student-pop-up-exhibit-abryanna-reeder-ellen-schley/
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, February 17\, at 12:00pm in the Rogers Gallery\, to hear the artists speak about their work that is currently on view in the exhibition “Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen: What’s Worth Keeping.” Light snacks and refreshments will be served.\n\nThis in-person event is open to the Berea College campus community and the general public. Masks are still required in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/artist-talk-with-molly-jo-burke-and-nathan-gorgen/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230123T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230123T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20230123T205827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T070736Z
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SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Newsletter Available!
DESCRIPTION:Another semester has flown by! We are pleased to announce that the Fall 2022 edition of our new department newsletter\, “Framework\,” is available for download! Click here to download the newsletter and read about all the exciting accomplishments our team has made this semester and get a sneak peek at the upcoming events and exhibits at Doris Ulmann Galleries!
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/fall-2022-newsletter-available/
CATEGORIES:Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230111T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Katie Hargrave
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Doris Ulmann Galleries on Wednesday\, January 11\, at 12:00pm\, to hear artist Katie Hargrave speak about her work that is currently on view in the exhibition “Katie Hargrave: Flag Waving” in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Light snacks and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of Ms. Hargrave’s talk.\n\nThis in-person event is open to the Berea College campus community and the general public. Masks are still required in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/artist-talk-with-katie-hargrave/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230111T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen: What's Worth Keeping
DESCRIPTION:Molly Jo Burke & Nathan Gorgen: What’s Worth Keeping is on view in the Rogers Gallery through February 17 in Rogers Gallery. What’s Worth Keeping showcases a series of artworks made in collaboration by Molly Jo Burke\, a glass and interdisciplinary artist\, and Nathan Gorgen\, a sculptor\, wood worker\, and digital fabrication specialist. Together\, the artist couple utilizes the excess materials that are found or left over from their individual artistic practices\, their daily lives\, and the natural and built environments they encounter. The resulting artworks are whimsical creations that challenge the viewer to reconsider their own environment and the things we use or discard daily and ask\, “What is worth keeping?” The artists will be at Berea College on Friday\, February 17\, for an artist talk and closing reception at 12:00pm in the Rogers Gallery. 
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/molly-jo-burke-and-nathan-gorgen-whats-worth-keeping/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230111T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20230211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:Katie Hargrave: Flag Waving
DESCRIPTION:Katie Hargrave: Flag Waving is now open in the Upper Traylor Gallery and will be on view through Friday\, February 10. Hargrave is a multimedia artist based in Chattanooga\, Tennessee\, whose work incorporates materials and processes as a way to explore\, deconstruct\, and decode U.S. politics and environmental movements. Hargrave makes projects using a variety of forms — installations\, publications\, videos\, fiber works\, and interactive experiences – and several examples of these diverse artistic practices are included in Flag Waving. Katie Hargrave will be at Berea College to host an artist talk on Wednesday January 11 at 12:00 in Rogers-Traylor Art Building\, room 210\, followed by a Q&A in the Upper Traylor Gallery.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/katie-hargrave-flag-waving/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20221116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20221116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20221123T220704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T204317Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Michael Reedy
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Doris Ulmann Galleries tomorrow afternoon\, Wednesday\, November 16\, at 4:00\, to hear artist Michael Reedy speak about his work that is currently on view in the exhibition Michael Reedy: Prodigious Piffle in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Light snacks and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of Reedy‘s talk.\n\nThis in-person event is open to the Berea College campus community and the general public. Masks are still required in the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/artist-talk-with-michael-reedy/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20221102T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20221211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:Michael Reedy: Prodigious Piffle
DESCRIPTION:Michael Reedy is a multimedia artist based in Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, whose work focuses on representing the human figure in ways that lie outside of art historical tradition. The large-scale artworks in Prodigious Piffle pull from imagery one might see in cartoons or anatomical illustrations like those found in medical textbooks\, and all serve\, as Reedy says\, “to underscore the comedic tragedy of physical existence\, as well as the frailties that increasingly define our sense of self as we age.”
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/michael-reedy-prodigious-piffle/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221026T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221211T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20220920T193549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T204410Z
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Cirgin: re-(c)leave
DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Cirgin is a multi-media artist currently serving as the Ceramics Area Head and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Eastern Kentucky University in the Department of Art and Design. The works on view in re-(c)leave are inspired in part by Cirgin’s experience working as a designer\, carpenter\, cabinet maker\, stone fabricator\, art preparator\, and life negotiator. He merges this background with his ceramic process to create abstract forms and casts of significant objects\, functional pottery\, and multi-medium constructed scenes.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/benjamin-cirgin-re-cleave/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20220418T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20220506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
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SUMMARY:2022 Graduating Seniors Virtual Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:This year\, we will be celebrating the outstanding work of our graduating seniors in a virtual and in-person exhibition! The virtual reception and Artist Talk will take place via Zoom on Friday\, April 29th at 5 p.m. Or visit us in-person at the Upper and Lower Traylor Galleries to see the artist’s works for an immersive experience! \nClick on the names below to explore our graduating seniors’ virtual showcases! \nJulia Coffman \nJose Ramos Macias \nGrace Reasor \nKatie Roach \nBrianna Ward \nSean Zechar
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/2022-graduating-seniors-virtual-exhibition/
LOCATION:Upper & Lower Trayor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220326
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20211202T183254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T204637Z
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SUMMARY:How do you solve a problem like Sadigh?
DESCRIPTION:Curated by students in ARH 263: Introduction to Museum Work\, this exhibition has both virtual and in-person components. You can explore the exhibition here as well as in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Either way\, share your thoughts about the objects and the unraveling story of the Sadigh Gallery’s forgeries in the comments sections for each object.
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/sadigh/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220105
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20210910T153204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T020401Z
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SUMMARY:Galleries Closed due to COVID-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/galleries-closed-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210612
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20210421T125851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T204847Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Graduating Seniors Virtual Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic\, our galleries remain closed. This year we are celebrating the outstanding work of our graduating seniors in a virtual exhibition. \nVirtual Opening \nMay 7\, 5pm via Zoom \nVisit the pages below to explore our graduating seniors’ art:\nSharonda Nix \nNhan Phan \nJose Socarras \nShaina Stewart \nHeidi Stetzer \nRachel Williamson
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/2021seniors-virtual-exhibition/
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200409T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200812T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20200622T183030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T204924Z
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SUMMARY:Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors
DESCRIPTION:Title\nGraduating Berea College Art Majors \nIn light on the Galleries close as part of Berea College’s COVID-19 response\, we have created an online exhibition for our 2020 graduating seniors: \nhttps://bcseniorart2020.omeka.net/
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/graduation-exhibition-for-art-majors-2/
LOCATION:Upper & Lower Trayor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200309T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20191115T164743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T205653Z
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SUMMARY:I Am/You Are
DESCRIPTION:I Am/You Are\nTia Blassingame \nI utilize printmaking in the book form to address issues of race and of racism in the United States. I am interested in how racism has warped our perception and has melted into our vocabulary\, social structure\, and our urban landscape. I grapple with such questions as who owns opinion and memory and who is authorized to bear witness? \nEmploying a mixture of poetry\, typography\, printmaking techniques like etching\, screenprinting lithography\, letterpress printing\, and book arts endeavors including papermaking and bookbinding\, I examine African American architectural\, spatial and cultural history\, racial prejudices and perception. As many of my pieces deal with historical racism\, I employ period typefaces to create a look and ambience that transports the viewer to the appropriate era. Because of its tactile nature and deep impression on the page\, letterpress printing invites the viewer to connect immediately and then dissect the text and images slowly. \nDisturbing images and histories rendered using wooden or metal letters or an etching plate can be atmospheric and intriguing. Instead of repelling the viewer\, artists’ books can allow for a nuanced discussion on issues of race to unfold with each page turn. The reader/viewer can locate themselves within the book as they create their own path to view and connect deeply with the the book\, its text and prints\, history itself. \nTia Blassingame will also be giving an artist talk on her exhibition in the gallery. \n  \nExhibition Run: March 9 – May 3\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, March 26\, at 4:30pm \nImage: Proofing I Am artist’s book
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/i-am-you-are/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200224T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200326T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20191115T163923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T213611Z
UID:2203-1582531200-1585242000@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Time Marked
DESCRIPTION:Time Marked\nJelena Berenc \nThe show explores Being-in-time while passing through time\, by marking quantized moments. Within each quantized moment a universe of events are created and ended. Each mark on the drawing reflects upon particular event and collectively creates the piece\, which provokes an awareness of a very specific social\, somatic\, or scientific truth/issue through and in time. \nExcessive repetition of minuscule drawing elements\, are used to create larger works of art encompassing an overarching idea or fact. Most pieces contain tens to hundreds of thousands and even millions of particularly chosen drawing elements. The most fundamental materials are used\, like pencil on paper\, so that the focus can center on the idea and its execution process. \n  \nExhibition Run: February 24 – March 26 \nImage: Mark-in-time\, Pencil and radiograph pen on paper\, 2017-2018\, 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ each
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/time-marked/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200224T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200320T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20200127T195959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214139Z
UID:2201-1582531200-1584723600@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:In Flux: Juried Exhibition of the South Eastern Fibers Educators' Association
DESCRIPTION:In Flux: Juried Exhibition of the South Eastern Fibers Educators’ Association \n“For a working artist\, an exhibition acts as a checkpoint – not an end necessarily\, but a pause in action. This SEFEA exhibition resulted from ongoing conversations\, careful examination of each other’s art\, and the joyful discovery  of our intersecting and overlapping directions. These were found not only in fiber techniques and processes\, but in our ideas\, concerns\, and driving concepts. This exhibition theme developed from the language we use to describe what we strive to achieve visually and what we hope others will experience in dialogue with our art. As a group\, we conscientiously create an environment that supports ongoing conversation and creative development. \nIn Flux is an exhibition of art works curated around the central idea of change and reflection\, it acknowledges those came before us and anticipates those who will come after us. The exhibition is intended to bring together art that explores and asks a range of questions from a variety of approaches. It travels from school to school\, because the individuals in this group are spread among schools throughout the region. It teaches because we as individuals teach.” \n— Lisa L. Kriner\, Professor of Art\, Fibers and Printmaking at Berea College \n  \n“When the many parts of a textile come together\, they create a structure that has both flexibility and integrity. The works exhibited by SEFEA members demonstrate the vast technical and emotional capabilities of fiber art. They show how the can stretch and bend\, without rupture\, to contain many individual approaches within a single community. The ongoing discussions from SEFEA meetings\, the relationships that have formed as a result of the association\, and the work that has been made and shared through forum of yearly meetings\, all speak to the connections made possible through fiber art practice.” \n— Amanda Thatch\, Textile Artist & Studio Coordinator for Textiles and Drawing/Painting at Penland School of Craft 2014-2018 \n  \nFor an opportunity to speak with some of the artists involved in this installation\, there will be a panel discussion on Tuesday\, February 25 at 10:00AM in the Lower Traylor Gallery consisting of Lisa Kriner\, Crystal Gregory\, Cathryn Amidei\, and Erin Miller. \n  \nArtist Panel Discussion: Tuesday\, February 25 at 10:00AM\nExhibition Run: February 24 — March 20 \nImage: SEFEA logo
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/in-flux-juried-exhibition-of-the-south-eastern-fibers-educators-association/
LOCATION:Lower Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20240131T205218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T010802Z
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SUMMARY:Modern by Nature: Elenhank Textiles from the Berea College Art Collection
DESCRIPTION:Modern by Nature: Elenhank Textiles from the Berea College Art Collection\nCurated by Molly Baker \n  \nExhibition Run: January 21 – February 20 \nImage: Elenhank Designers\, Inc.\, Borealis\, 1976\, screen printed fabric\, 46 1/2″ x 83″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/modern-by-nature-elenhank-textiles-from-the-berea-college-art-collection/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20191115T161743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214223Z
UID:2197-1579593600-1582218000@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Re-Reading and Other Bookish Desires
DESCRIPTION:Re-Reading and Other Bookish Desires\nSuzanne Dittenber \nDittenber’s works engage in the dialectics of space—books shaped by their histories and contexts. Indications of domestic furniture and interiors allow for intimacy to take shape\, culling memories in relationship to reading. Paintings and sculptures of books carrying blemishes and imperfections demonstrate a history of receptivity to nuance and a sensitivity to touch and environment. Like an attentive listener\, these works are both responsive and wistful. And yet\, through a separation from specific sources\, the information that would normally connect us to universal ideas is absent. Her books become a blank slate onto which we can project our desires. Waterlines and dog-ears\, evidence of a personal rapport with materiality\, add trace amounts of mystery to cherished stories placed in literal and metaphorical cradles of collective knowledge found in our institutions and on our bed stands. \n  \nExhibition Run: January 21 – February 20 \nImage: Pink Spine\, Oil on canvas\, 2018\, 36″ x 24″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/re-reading-and-other-bookish-desires/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200113T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20191206T150506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214421Z
UID:2188-1578902400-1582822800@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Across the Space Separating
DESCRIPTION:Across the Space Separating\nKiana Honarmand \nI am a Middle Eastern woman living and working in the United States. My creative work address issues related to my cultural identity. I explore the space between the imagery from my cultural background and the Western ideals of my foreground. This is my hybrid portrayal of Middle Eastern and European art where two parts of my identity merge during this time-period in which these two cultures clash. \nMy work is a commentary on sociopolitical issues related to my life in Iran\, such as censorship and violation of women’s rights\, as well as\, the Westerners perception of the Middle East. These issues have deeply affected my life and many others. I talk about the censorship I grew up with by obscuring images from art history. I talk about contemporary incidents such as stoning\, acid attacks against women\, and imprisonment of women’s rights activists. Growing up in Iran\, I felt stuck between tradition and modernity\, as did many other people in my generation. Iran had already become westernized before the 1979 revolution changed the culture to a more religious and traditional one. \nMy work is influenced by my status as female growing up in the Middle East\, who is currently living in the United States. I consider myself a conceptually based artist. In the process of creating my work\, I make all my aesthetic and technical decisions based on my concept and ideas. I use different digital fabrication technologies such as Laser Cutters\, CNC Routers\, 3D Scanners and 3D printer\, in combination with the traditional methods of craft. \nHonarmand will also be giving an artist talk in the galleries for the opening of her exhibition. \n  \nExhibition Run: January 13 – February 27\, 2020\nArtist Talk: Tuesday\, January 14\, at 5:00pm \nImage: Decorum\, 2016\, Installation View
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/across-the-space-separating/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191104T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20200212T192943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214455Z
UID:2179-1572854400-1576256400@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Historical Portraits from the Berea College Art Collection
DESCRIPTION:Historical Portraits from the Berea College Art Collection\nCurated by the students in Art History 263 \nABSTRACT \n  \nExhibition Run: November 4 – December 13\, 2019 \nImage: Robert Nanteuil (French\, 1623-1678)\, Portrait of John Evelyn\, Engraving\, 1650\, 7 1/4″ x 10 3/4″\, Gift of Ross W. Sloniker\, 180.N.87
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/historical-portraits-from-the-berea-college-art-collection/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/18107_ca_object_representations_media_9055_medium.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191028T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190917T152945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214542Z
UID:2170-1572249600-1580576400@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Sharing Space with Authority: Proposals for Installing the Berea College Presidential Portraits
DESCRIPTION:Sharing Space with Authority: Proposals for Installing the Berea College Presidential Portraits \nA seemingly simple task\, to reinstall the Berea College presidential portraits\, is actually wrapped up in a complicated dialogue –one that does not exist solely on college campuses\, but in museums\, academic buildings\, and public spaces nationally and globally. How do we make every person who encounters a space feel welcome? How do we return spaces to those who had said spaces taken from them? Internationally\, monuments are being toppled\, murals are being covered\, and buildings are being renamed in response to these questions. Careful consideration of this dialogue has led us to think critically about the reinstallation of our own presidential portraits. Being hung on the wall of a building can give the portraits power over the surrounding space\, and\, as numerous interviews have revealed\, this power dynamic creates an unwelcoming atmosphere for some students\, faculty\, staff\, and visitors more broadly. \nIn order to begin the process of answering these difficult questions\, we will be holding a community event in the Berea College Alumni Building’s Baird Lounge. During this event\, we welcome and encourage community members\, whether that be the college community or community of the surrounding area\, to give us your thoughts on how you feel in such a space and what you would want done with these portraits. \nCurator Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye will also be giving a talk during the community event. \n  \nExhibition Run: October 28 – February 1\, 2019\nCommunity Event: Thursday\, November 21\, at 4:00pm\, in the Alumni Building’s Baird Lounge \nImage: Digitally Altered Image
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/sharing-space-with-authority-proposals-for-installing-the-berea-college-presidential-portraits/
LOCATION:Lower Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191028T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20191015T133335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214609Z
UID:2175-1572249600-1576256400@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Feathers Fall\, Grass Grows
DESCRIPTION:Feathers Fall\, Grass Grows\nby Andréa Connell \nFigurines come into one’s possession to celebrate a birth\, a death\, an anniversary\, or any other numerous or commemorative moment. They become a stand-in for a story\, stories often held privately by the collector. Through my work I explore the complex narratives that lay dormant\, forgotten\, and suppressed in representations of our most treasured\, and often private objects. \nMy interest in commemorative objects\, particularly the hidden narrative of figurines\, has evolved through multiple bodies of work. I’ve approached figurines in different contexts –as monuments and as statuary\, as representations of experience and as objects of scale. From this perspective I see figurines engaging in both private and in public narratives; they fit easily in the family china cabinet but they can depict an image a whole community might receive. At their most authoritative they would make their way to a community plinth\, elevated and honored as a monument. I am interested in how figurines influence communities and homes\, on what they conceal and what they reveal. \nWhen I was a child\, I would sneak into my mother’s china cabinet and collect her porcelain figurines\, all displayed and beautifully arranged –painted birds perched on branches\, children innocently gazing off in wonderment\, men and women spinning each other in love and delight. I would remove the figurines from their cabinet and play with them like dolls. It never lasted long. When my mother found me I was always admonished with a familiar refrain. She would tell me the figurines were not for play: they were breakable\, they were precious\, they were valuable. Carefully\, she would place them back in the cabinet and shut the door. \n  \nExhibition Run: October 28 – December 13\, 2019 \nImage: Andréa Connell\, The Archer\, clay\, 32″ x 28″ x 19″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/feathers-fall-grass-grows/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20190909T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190917T152108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214627Z
UID:2165-1568016000-1571936400@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Placed & Displaced
DESCRIPTION:Placed and Displaced\nAmanda Maciuba \nMy work is concerned with how the effects of purposeful human actions\, alongside uncontrollable factors of time and nature\, alter both the current landscape and human agency within that landscape. The accrual of our past modifications in combination with what evolves over those remnants leaves us with physical traces of past lives. It provides a history of the land and our interactions within and upon it that can be read and evaluated through careful observation. My recent work is specifically concerned with the landscapes\, communities\, development practices and environmental concerns prevalent throughout the Midwest and New England. By reacting directly to the landscapes and environments I am currently living in\, my work examines and critiques place. \nIn my work\, I begin with the landscapes most familiar to me\, where I am now\, and then expand my practice to include a broader understanding of changes brought onto our surroundings by human hands. I use my personal experiences with disorientation and dislocation in the various suburban\, urban and rural landscapes I encounter in my everyday life and share them with a wider audience. I question the sustainability of our current decisions and actions within the cycles of development and destruction upon the landscape.I call attention to the unique and irrational characteristics of locations\, both beauty and absurdity in the landscapes of our everyday. By combining my labor-intensive print media and drawing practices with familiar landscapes drawn in an exaggerated form\, my work reconsiders how the physical manifestation of our surroundings have come to reflect our disregard towards them and begin to consider an alternative way forward. \n  \nExhibition Run: September 9 – October 24\, 2019 \nImage: Fix Something Else Nearby Instead II\, Intaglio\, 2017
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/placed-displaced/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20190902T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191017T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190822T194816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214735Z
UID:2159-1567411200-1571331600@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Biopathies
DESCRIPTION:Biopathies \nCarrie Longley \nThe driving force behind my sculpture is the relationship of science and art. Collections\, categories\, labels\, frames\, and display cases are all devices used by science and art to encourage the view to carefully examine precious objects and artifacts. My intention as an artist is to create a playful shifting back and forth between our traditional ideas of a scientific specimen and art object. \nMy work is constructed from a combination of various interests\, experiences\, and memories\, which generate exponential possibilities for continuing my drive as an artist. I am continually inspired and amazed by the germination of a seed\, the birth of a baby\, and the intricate web of relationships among humans\, plants\, and animals. Although my work is laden with personal lived experience\, it is my hope that all viewers relate to my work in a way that evokes memory\, wonder\, and curiosity. \nI utilize the malleable characteristics of clay in combination with wire\, pig intestine\, and wax to create small-scale sculptures\, which resemble preserved scientific specimens. The forms display warty surfaces\, soft\, fleshy folds\, and puckered openings\, suggestive of organic growth. I use clay primarily for its material and technical possibilities and its chameleon-like ability to mimic organic form and surfaces. The aesthetic characteristics of glaze allow me to achieve a surface depth similar to a membrane or skin of an organism. \nAlthough our way of seeing the natural world has dramatically advanced\, the mysteries surrounding this world are ever present. My work celebrates this sense of mystery\, existing somewhere within the border of illusion and reality. I intend for my work to create a visual dichotomy as a seemingly authentic scientific collection is displayed in a contemporary art setting. \n  \nExhibition Run: September 2 – October 17\, 2019 \nImage: Carrie Longley\, Capillus voluminus\, ceramic & mixed media\, 15″ x 12″ x 6″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/biopathies/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20190821T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20191010T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190820T182828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214800Z
UID:2151-1566374400-1570726800@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra\nJulie Comnick \nArrangement for a Silent Orchestra is a painting and video project that explores the gradual dissolution of culture in contemporary society through the symbolic ruin of a personal and cultural icon\, the violin. Using the violin as a metaphor\, I raise questions about the relationship between advancing technology and diminishing cultural heritage. I invite the audience to consider what makes the instrument precious in their own experience\, and also the cultural context that could allow for its loss. \nThe Artist Talk will also feature a solo violin performance by the artist and will be followed by a reception. \n  \nExhibition Run: August 21 – October 10\, 2019\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, October 10\, at 5:00pm \nImage: Julie Comnick\, Fuoco\, Oil on Canvas\, 2014\, 80″ x 95″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/arrangement-for-a-silent-orchestra/
LOCATION:Lower Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Comnick.Fuoco_.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190411T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190222T212702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214822Z
UID:2069-1554969600-1557075600@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition run: April 11 – May 5\, 2019 \nArtist talk and Opening Reception: April 11\, 4:30pm
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/graduation-exhibition-for-art-majors/
LOCATION:Upper & Lower Trayor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190225T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190222T210908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214920Z
UID:2065-1551081600-1556902800@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:"Visions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection"
DESCRIPTION:Visions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection \nExhibition run: February 25 – May 3\, 2019 \nGathered together over the course of several decades through the generosity of many donors\, the Berea College Art Collection includes numerous objects associated with Buddhism. The works of art in this exhibition showcase significant aspects of Buddhist visual culture from cultures throughout Asia. Organized into four thematic categories\, it explores varieties of Buddhist iconography\, the material culture of Buddhist text\, fascinating ritual objects\, and ways in which Buddhist imagery appears outside its traditional contexts. The exhibition demonstrates the rich diversity of the Berea College Art Collection and the opportunity it provides for interaction with works of art from around the world. \nThe fourteen Berea students in The Arts of Buddhism course this semester selected and then conducted research on the objects included in the exhibition. For the majority of these students\, working on this exhibition has been their first experience researching and writing about art for a public audience. In addition to considering how best to communicate information about their individual object\, they also worked in small groups to bring together the exhibition’s four thematic sections. \n– Ashley Elston \n(Instructor; AST/ARH 249: The Arts of Buddhism) \n  \nImage: Amitabha Buddha\, Gilt bronze\, 20th c.\, 10″ x 6 1/4″ Berea College Art Collection
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/visions-of-the-dharma-buddhist-art-from-the-berea-college-art-collection/
LOCATION:Rogers Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190225T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190222T202257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T214943Z
UID:2054-1551081600-1554397200@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:"Cataclysmic Microcosm" by Jave Yoshimoto
DESCRIPTION:Cataclysmic Microcosm\nJave Yoshimoto \nMy work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory for tragic events so quickly forgotten in our information age. \nEmploying images of the overwhelming power of the contemporary disasters humanitarian crisis to inspire empathy in the art works’ viewers. I use graphic illustrative images to draw in the audience for a closer view\, while the finer details of the piece keep the audience fixated and allow them to feel immersed in the content of the subjects themselves. \nI have researched my topics and themes by visiting and volunteering to help with the earthquake relief in Japan and Nepal\, as well as the refugee crisis in Greece to collect first-hand\, on the ground data.  These data\, which varies from interviews and photographic documentations are used to build my compositional images\, which at first becomes a painting paper\, then re-drawn to create my current wood relief block sculptures. \nThis practice ultimately represent my belief that art should be accessible to its viewers through humanist tales of struggle and survival as played out in the prevalent social amnesia of the information age. \n  \nExhibition Run: February 25 – April 4\, 2019\nArtist Talk: April 4\, 4:30pm \n  \nImage: The Transference of Weight by Jave Yoshimoto; Gouache on paper\, 2017\, 18″ x 24″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/cataclysmic-microcosm-by-jave-yoshimoto/
LOCATION:Lower Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Event,Past Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190225T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190329T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T182406
CREATED:20190222T204645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T215041Z
UID:2059-1551081600-1553878800@dulmanngalleries.berea.edu
SUMMARY:"From Sabbatical" by Kevin Gardner
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition run: February 25 – March 29\, 2019 \n  \nFrom Sabbatical\nKevin Neal Gardner \nArt is\, at its best\, more beautiful\, better crafted\, and more interesting than the reality we think influences it. However illusionistic it may or may not be\, art is\, in the end\, purposefully unreal. These drawings and paintings were created in pursuit of these artistic ideals during my fall 2017 sabbatical term. They were inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art\, the paintings and photographs of the 19th and early 20th century Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins\, and exploration of questions around what it means to be a visual artist today and to live an artistic life. Dialogue with other artists is for me an artistically necessary continuation of tradition: it is the variation of historic imagery and idea into something new. I locate my place as an artist through reflecting on the traditions and aesthetics of visual art and its history. \nIn addition to being in dialogue with historical influences\, this genre-varied show is unified by the ideas of drawing as preparation and drawing as seeing. My painting Diana Robing is how this group of work started\, beginning with an exploration of a technique new to me. A charcoal drawing is fixed and then layered with amber shellac\, which is used to size the paper for painting with oil and to seal the drawing as a detailed underpainting. Remnants of shellac-layered drawing can still be seen in the Vermont Window and Swimming Hole paintings. \nDrawing as a way of perceiving the interactions of different moments of time became an important motivation. This began during my residency at the Vermont Studio Center with 24 and 5 Moments\, inspired by Thomas Eakins photographs with people and animals documented in motion. The 24 and 5 Moments drawings were created to show how overlapping poses from different points in time and in illogical comparisons of scale interact in unexpected ways. This led to the final work of my sabbatical\, Reading and Looking\, and to a current piece in process\, Sleeping (projected)\, in which taking myself as a model I imagine and document a character secretly seen through simultaneously perceived moments within a bedroom. \nAfter earning and experiencing my first sabbatical\, I understand the value of spending uninterrupted energy\, time\, and thought on creative work. The idea of being a professor without this focus on creativity or research seems wrong—especially given the inseparable bond between scholarship and teaching. I am extremely grateful that Berea College maintains the sabbatical tradition; I am fortunate to have had this time to create the show you see here. \nImage: Vermont Window by Kevin Gardner\, oil on paper\, 2017\, 40.5″ x 28″
URL:https://dulmanngalleries.berea.edu/event_cal/from-sabbatical-by-kevin-gardner/
LOCATION:Upper Traylor Gallery
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibit
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