Artist Talk with Samuel L. Dunson, Jr.
Upper Traylor GalleryPainter 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 [...]
Collage Workshop with Stephanie Santana
Rogers-Traylor Art Building Room 211Stephanie 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 [...]
Artist Talk with Kate Roberts
Lower Traylor GalleryKate 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 [...]
Discoveries at the Doris Ulmann Galleries – March 2024
Dimitrie Berea GalleryDiscover 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” [...]
Pop-Up! Exhibition: Casandra Cutter and Charlie Trowbridge
Tredennick GalleryThis week-long pop-up exhibition features work by Student Craft Apprentices Casandra Cutter and Charlie Trowbridge. Casandra and Charlie spent several months making, learning, and sharing their expertise at Student Craft, culminating in the work shared in this show. Casandra Cutter is a broom maker and folk craft disciple currently living and working in South Texas under [...]
Catharsis: Senior Exhibition
Doris Ulmann GalleriesThe 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 [...]
Catharsis: Senior Exhibition Reception and Artist Talks
Doris Ulmann GalleriesThe 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 [...]
Discoveries at the Doris – April 2024
Dimitrie Berea GalleryDiscover 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 [...]
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 [...]