Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection
Masterpiece Gallery Berea, KY, United StatesPicturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection, located in our Masterpiece Gallery, centers artwork and artifacts that engage with the landscape, labor, craft traditions, and people that have called the Appalachian region home. Well-known artists and photographers including Henry Ossawa Tanner, Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, and Aaron Siskind are presented alongside lesser known and unrecorded [...]
Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art
Lower Traylor GalleryThe Doris Ulmann Galleries is excited and honored to be the final stop on the tour of the Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art exhibition. Prior to arriving at Berea College, this exhibition of carefully carved and painted wooden sculptures was featured at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum in Louisville and the [...]
Artist Talk with Lonnie & Twyla Money
Doris Ulmann GalleriesIn 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 [...]
Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record
Upper Traylor GalleryTo Walk, To Remember, To Record, featuring work by Professor of Art Lisa Kriner, explores the act of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording my experiences of the spaces around me through drawings, embroidery, and handweaving.
Artist Talk with Lisa Kriner
Upper Traylor GalleryBerea 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, [...]
Folk Art Painting Workshop with Lonnie & Twyla Money
Doris Ulmann GalleriesLocal folk artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will lead a workshop in which participants will paint their own wooden chicken sculptures like those on view in the exhibition, Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, at the Doris Ulmann Galleries. The workshop will take place in Rogers-Traylor Art Building, room 211, on Friday, October [...]
Marika Christofides: Life Cycles
Lower Traylor GalleryLife Cycles features digital collage-based print works by Oklahoma-based artist Marika Christofides that depict abstracted biomorphic forms in various stages of transformation. Motifs change and replicate across the works in the exhibition, mimicking the stages of an organism’s biological development. The works in Marika Christofides: Life Cycles explore what it means to “become” through a [...]
Artist Talk with Marika Christofides
Lower Traylor GalleryVisiting artist Marika Christofides will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception for Marika Christofides: Life Cycles at 4:30 on Wednesday, October 23, in the Lower Traylor Gallery. Christofides works in multiple media - printmaking, collage, and more - to create installations and other works featuring abstracted creatures that investigate, as she says, [...]
Eddy López: verso(s)
Upper Traylor GalleryVerso is the reverse of something, a coin, a painting, a photograph. Verso, in Spanish, is a conjunction of words that make up a poem. Eddy López: verso(s) is a print media exploration on the dangers of nostalgia and representation using photographs and writings from the Nicaraguan revolution and civil war of the 1970s and [...]
Artist Talk with Eddy López
Upper Traylor GalleryPrintmaker Eddy López will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception of Eddy López: verso(s) at 12:00pm (noon) on Friday, November 8, in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution, López creates work that combines archives and memories of war into abstractions of vibrant colors, [...]