Events for July 23, 2025 - July 23, 2025

Sharing Space with Authority: Proposals for Installing the Berea College Presidential Portraits A seemingly simple task, to reinstall the Berea College presidential portraits, is actually wrapped up in a complicated dialogue –one that does not exist solely on college campuses, but in museums, academic buildings, and public spaces nationally and globally. How do we make [...]

Historical Portraits from the Berea College Art Collection Curated by the students in Art History 263 ABSTRACT   Exhibition Run: November 4 - December 13, 2019 Image: Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678), Portrait of John Evelyn, Engraving, 1650, 7 1/4" x 10 3/4", Gift of Ross W. Sloniker, 180.N.87

Across the Space Separating Kiana Honarmand I am a Middle Eastern woman living and working in the United States. My creative work address issues related to my cultural identity. I explore the space between the imagery from my cultural background and the Western ideals of my foreground. This is my hybrid portrayal of Middle Eastern [...]

Re-Reading and Other Bookish Desires Suzanne Dittenber Dittenber’s works engage in the dialectics of space—books shaped by their histories and contexts. Indications of domestic furniture and interiors allow for intimacy to take shape, culling memories in relationship to reading. Paintings and sculptures of books carrying blemishes and imperfections demonstrate a history of receptivity to nuance [...]

Modern by Nature: Elenhank Textiles from the Berea College Art Collection Curated by Molly Baker   Exhibition Run: January 21 - February 20 Image: Elenhank Designers, Inc., Borealis, 1976, screen printed fabric, 46 1/2" x 83"

In Flux: Juried Exhibition of the South Eastern Fibers Educators' Association "For a working artist, an exhibition acts as a checkpoint - not an end necessarily, but a pause in action. This SEFEA exhibition resulted from ongoing conversations, careful examination of each other's art, and the joyful discovery  of our intersecting and overlapping directions. These [...]

Time Marked Jelena Berenc The show explores Being-in-time while passing through time, by marking quantized moments. Within each quantized moment a universe of events are created and ended. Each mark on the drawing reflects upon particular event and collectively creates the piece, which provokes an awareness of a very specific social, somatic, or scientific truth/issue [...]

I Am/You Are Tia Blassingame I utilize printmaking in the book form to address issues of race and of racism in the United States. I am interested in how racism has warped our perception and has melted into our vocabulary, social structure, and our urban landscape. I grapple with such questions as who owns opinion [...]