Events for July 27, 2025 - July 27, 2025

As a child, I learned Japanese calligraphy at school. When I was growing up, I watched my father, a calligrapher, practicing and saw how he approached his work. We talked about the meaning behind each proverb he was writing or about his practice itself.We still do. Together with Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting), Japanese calligraphy has become an activity that immediately [...]

Selected from the Berea College Art Collection, Brush, Ink Line: Calligraphy of Japan focuses on presenting the tools, artworks, writings, and poetry that encompass Japanese calligraphy. Many of these objects were given to the College by women who spent time in Japan. Generally, calligraphy is thought of as penmanship, simply a way of communication for [...]

Join us in appreciating the work of our exiting art majors!

Monsters of Suburbia focuses on a 10 year old boy, Jason, who has become fearful of the world and of the changes he faces while growing up. Jason’s fears manifest as monsters which he must overcome to fulfil moral obligations and develop self confidence. Formally, my art connects to the tradition of comic books through the use of ink and Bristol paper My passion for sequential art comes from the freedom it allows [...]

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, [...]

As 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 [...]

Doris 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 [...]

An exhibition of new work by Lisa L. Kriner, Berea College Professor of fibers and Printmaking.

Sarah 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 [...]