Picturing 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
In celebration of the opening of Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, on Wednesday, September 4, author Karen Money and the artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will be with us to talk about their work and the process of organizing this very special traveling exhibition., which developed out of Abney's dedicated [...]
To Walk, To Remember, To Record, featuring work by Professor of Art Lisa Kriner, Â explores the act of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording my experiences of the spaces around me through drawings, embroidery, and handweaving.
Berea College's Professor of Art Lisa Kriner will be giving an artist talk on Friday, September 20, at 12:00pm that will address the works featured in the exhibition, Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record, which explores the artist's acts of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording those experiences through drawings, [...]
Local folk artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will lead a workshop in which participants will paint their own wooden chicken sculptures like those on view in the exhibition, Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, at the Doris Ulmann Galleries. The workshop will take place in Rogers-Traylor Art Building, room 211, on Friday, October [...]