Relief Printing as Social Practice: Artist Workshop with Eddy López
Rogers-Traylor Art Building Room 211Led by visiting artist Eddy López, participants will be guided in relief printing techniques to create a collaborative, hand-printed letterpress alphabet that will be used to print posters featuring lines of poetry by Central American authors. This workshop is free and open to the public; all supplies are provided. The workshop will take place in [...]
The Illustrated Memoir Project
Tredennick GalleryOn view in the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery are memoirs produced as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Illustrated Memoir Project engages refugee and immigrant youth to write and illustrate true stories from their lives. The goal of this project is to foment intellectual self-trust in the [...]
Artist Talk with Kate Currie and Enock Sadiki
Tredennick GalleryJoin us on Wednesday, January 15, at 4:30pm to hear about the memoirs on view in a special, short-term exhibition showcasing works made as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Kate Currie, Director of The Illustrated Memoir Project, and Enock Sadiki, Board Member and former Intern at [...]
Laura Colomb: Sinkhole
Upper Traylor GalleryLaura Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic sites and preserve land within Florida, a place she sees as one of many dualities. For Colomb, the sinkhole embodies this duality. Sinkholes create crystal clear natural springs for swimming and diving, but they can also destroy lives and property within seconds, holding both intense wonder and terror [...]
Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing
Lower Traylor GalleryLiz Ensz: Ground Truthing features works of textiles and sculpture that explore the semblance of place as understood through cartographic measurements, embodied experiences, and technological mediations. Responding to the Lower Traylor Gallery’s architecture, and informed by the stratigraphy of the geological record, this exhibition embraces spatial and temporal disorientation as a device for shifting perspective [...]
Artist Talk with Liz Ensz
Lower Traylor GalleryInterdisciplinary artist Liz Ensz will give a talk focusing on the works in their solo exhibition, Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing, which will be on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from January 29 through March 14. This event is free and open to the public; no RSVP required. Refreshments and snacks will be available after [...]
Artist Talk with Laura Colomb
Upper Traylor GalleryFlorida-based painter Laura Colomb will give an artist talk related to her current exhibition, Laura Colomb: Sinkhole, on Wednesday, February 5, at 4:30pm in the Upper Traylor Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and snacks will be available after the talk. No RSVP necessary. Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic [...]
Isaac Couch: Occupied
Tredennick GalleryOccupied features a collection of work shirts and tarps that textile artist and designer Isaac Couch calls Ghosts. These Ghosts refer to embodiments of energies from the past that manifest themselves in the present. As Couch says, "At the current political and economic moment, we are reminded yet again that history repeats itself if we [...]
Student Curator Talk with Soreyda Begley | Isaac Couch: Occupied
Tredennick GallerySoreyda Begley will give a talk detailing her work with visiting artist Isaac Couch during the opening reception for the exhibition, Isaac Couch: Occupied. Begley, a Berea College student double majoring in Political Science and African and African American Studies, curated and organized this special exhibition that is supported by the Doris Ulmann Galleries, the Carter [...]
Granny Squares and Crochet Appliqué: Workshop with Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
Rogers-Traylor Art Building Room 211To mark the closing of Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection, the Galleries staff is teaming up with our friends at the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center to host a crochet workshop inspired by the Mountain Cow blankets that are included in the exhibition, on loan from LJAC. Learn techniques to master granny squares and [...]