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 [...]
To Walk, To Remember, To Record, featuring work by Professor of Art Lisa Kriner, 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.
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 [...]
Life Cycles features digital collage-based print works by Oklahoma-based artist Marika Christofides that depict abstracted biomorphic forms in various stages of transformation. Motifs change and replicate across the works in the exhibition, mimicking the stages of an organism’s biological development. The works in Marika Christofides: Life Cycles explore what it means to “become” through a [...]
Visiting artist Marika Christofides will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception for Marika Christofides: Life Cycles at 4:30 on Wednesday, October 23, in the Lower Traylor Gallery. Christofides works in multiple media - printmaking, collage, and more - to create installations and other works featuring abstracted creatures that investigate, as she says, [...]
Verso is the reverse of something, a coin, a painting, a photograph. Verso, in Spanish, is a conjunction of words that make up a poem. Eddy López: verso(s) is a print media exploration on the dangers of nostalgia and representation using photographs and writings from the Nicaraguan revolution and civil war of the 1970s and [...]