Rediscover: Highlights from the Berea College Art Collection
Dimitrie Berea Gallery & Masterpiece GalleryThe artworks and artifacts on display in Rediscover, located in the Dimitrie Berea and Masterpiece galleries, celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Doris Ulmann Galleries. Each object was carefully selected to showcase the richness and depth of Berea College’s permanent art collection, which contains more than 15,000 objects that represent over 5,000 years of human [...]
Benjamin Cirgin: re-(c)leave
Rogers GalleryBenjamin Cirgin is a multi-media artist currently serving as the Ceramics Area Head and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Eastern Kentucky University in the Department of Art and Design. The works on view in re-(c)leave are inspired in part by Cirgin’s experience working as a designer, carpenter, cabinet maker, stone fabricator, art preparator, and life [...]
Michael Reedy: Prodigious Piffle
Upper Traylor GalleryMichael Reedy is a multimedia artist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose work focuses on representing the human figure in ways that lie outside of art historical tradition. The large-scale artworks in Prodigious Piffle pull from imagery one might see in cartoons or anatomical illustrations like those found in medical textbooks, and all serve, as [...]
Artist Talk with Michael Reedy
Upper Traylor GalleryPlease join us at the Doris Ulmann Galleries tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, November 16, at 4:00, to hear artist Michael Reedy speak about his work that is currently on view in the exhibition Michael Reedy: Prodigious Piffle in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Light snacks and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of Reedy's talk. This in-person event is open to the Berea College campus [...]
Katie Hargrave: Flag Waving
Upper Traylor GalleryKatie Hargrave: Flag Waving is now open in the Upper Traylor Gallery and will be on view through Friday, February 10. Hargrave is a multimedia artist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, whose work incorporates materials and processes as a way to explore, deconstruct, and decode U.S. politics and environmental movements. Hargrave makes projects using a variety of forms — installations, [...]
Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen: What’s Worth Keeping
Rogers GalleryMolly Jo Burke & Nathan Gorgen: What's Worth Keeping is on view in the Rogers Gallery through February 17 in Rogers Gallery. What's Worth Keeping showcases a series of artworks made in collaboration by Molly Jo Burke, a glass and interdisciplinary artist, and Nathan Gorgen, a sculptor, wood worker, and digital fabrication specialist. Together, the artist couple utilizes the [...]
Artist Talk with Katie Hargrave
Upper Traylor GalleryPlease join us at the Doris Ulmann Galleries on Wednesday, January 11, at 12:00pm, to hear artist Katie Hargrave speak about her work that is currently on view in the exhibition "Katie Hargrave: Flag Waving" in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Light snacks and refreshments will be served at the conclusion of Ms. Hargrave's talk. This in-person [...]
Hanna Vogel: Cradling
Lower Traylor Gallery"Hanna Vogel: Cradling" will be on view starting January 18 through Friday, March 17, in the Lower-Traylor Gallery on the first floor of the Rogers-Traylor Art Building. Hanna Vogel is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator who works with paper pulp and steel write to create unfamiliar forms and textures that evoke the tenuousness of natural lifecycles. The works on view in "Cradling" [...]
Fall 2022 Newsletter Available!
Another semester has flown by! We are pleased to announce that the Fall 2022 edition of our new department newsletter, "Framework," is available for download! Click here to download the newsletter and read about all the exciting accomplishments our team has made this semester and get a sneak peek at the upcoming events and exhibits [...]
Artist Talk with Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen
Rogers GalleryPlease join us on Friday, February 17, at 12:00pm in the Rogers Gallery, to hear the artists speak about their work that is currently on view in the exhibition "Molly Jo Burke and Nathan Gorgen: What's Worth Keeping." Light snacks and refreshments will be served. This in-person event is open to the Berea College campus community [...]