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Berea College Gallery

In 1935, the Berea College Board of Trustees gave the school’s Art Department the job of administering, storing, and caring for all art given to the college. Over the last century, Berea College has received hundreds of art objects of all media, from very small coins and jades to very large paintings, as well as objects from prehistoric to modern times. Today the Art Department operates several galleries, including the Dimitri Berea Gallery, the Doris Ulmann Gallery, and a student gallery. Visiting artists, students, and faculty members display their work in the galleries, which also exhibit some of the pieces from the school’s large permanent collection.

The Berea College permanent collection is primarily a teaching collection with particular strength in prints, paintings, African arts, Asian objects, and textiles. In addition, Berea College is home to special collections of Doris Ulmann photographs, C.C. Coyle primitive oils, Frank Long paintings, drawings and paintings by Emily G. Hanks, Italian Renaissance Kress Collection paintings, Dimitri Berea drawings and watercolors, and American landscape paintings.

The Berea College Gallery is open six days a week (closed on Saturdays) when classes are in session. All gallery spaces are wheelchair-accessible. The online gallery offers access to many of the works in the college’s permanent collection.

For more information, contact:

Berea College Galleries
Rogers and Traylor Buildings
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404
(859) 985-3543
www.berea.edu/art/gallery/

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