Events for May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025

Painter and multimedia artist Samuel L. Dunson, Jr., will give a talk on Wednesday, February 14, at 3:30 about his work on view in Actions Affirmed, an exhibition in the Upper Traylor Gallery featuring paintings, wall hangings, and hand-made sculptural forms that attempt to make sense of the current social climate in which, as Dunson [...]

Stephanie Santana, a New York-based artist whose work explores mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies within the Black diasporan experience, will lead a workshop in which participants will develop quilt-inspired mixed-media collages rooted in memory and personal narrative and inspired by bell hooks' essay, "Piecing it All Together." The workshop is co-sponsored by the bell [...]

Kate Roberts will be giving an artist talk in conjunction with the closing reception for the exhibition, Kate Roberts: in care of, which is on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from January 31 to March 15. A ceramicist and installation artist, Roberts' work draws upon her experience growing up in the American South and acts [...]

Discover beloved artworks from the Berea College Art Collection at the Doris Ulmann Galleries through a guided conversation led by Ainsley Golden, BereaCorps Art Collection and Gallery Associate, focusing on one or a few artworks from the permanent collection. For Women's History Month, we're focusing on Margaret Kepner's print, Broken Dishes, Mended Edges (2011). “Discoveries” [...]

The annual Senior Exhibition showcases bodies of work made by graduating Studio Art majors. Catharsis: Senior Exhibition showcases examples of paintings, prints, sculpture, and fiber arts that are spread through the Upper Traylor Gallery, Lower Traylor Gallery, Masterpiece Gallery, and the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery.  The exhibition will be open from Friday, April 11, through [...]

Discover beloved artworks from the Berea College Art Collection at the Doris Ulmann Galleries through a guided conversation led by Ainsley Golden, BereaCorps Art Collection and Gallery Associate, focusing on one or a few artworks from the permanent collection. For April, the talk will center on Alexander Calder’s Sun, a tapestry made in 1974. Calder [...]

In celebration of the opening of Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, on Wednesday, September 4, author Karen Money and the artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will be with us to talk about their work and the process of organizing this very special traveling exhibition., which developed out of Abney's dedicated [...]

Berea College's Professor of Art Lisa Kriner will be giving an artist talk on Friday, September 20, at 12:00pm that will address the works featured in the exhibition, Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record, which explores the artist's acts of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording those experiences through drawings, [...]