A native of North Carolina, Dani ’25 works as the finishing manager in Student Craft. She takes various products and cuts them down to size and neatens up…
One of the designers and makers of the Sunrise Mirror, available at Berea’s Log House Craft Gallery, took inspiration from the small Missouri town where they grew up.…
Nay ’23 belongs to the Karen (Ka Rehn) community of Burma. He was 7 when his mother relocated to the United States with his two brothers, fleeing military…
While broomcraft was largely an artform left in the past with an estimated 250 makers globally, the craft is now making a resurgence. Berea College Director of Broomcraft…
No-cost tuition, outstanding academics and a breathtaking campus make Berea College special. So do free student laptops, paid jobs in the Labor Program and the chance for lifelong…
“Berea found me,” remembers Ariel Owens Williams ’14. Williams grew up and lived in Hawaii, but her father moved them to Kentucky for a short period of time…
“I’m just a girl from Africa who loves to make things,” said Katie ’23, who was raised in Mozambique by missionary parents from the U.S. and Sweden. The…
For Zy Garrett ’22, the magic is in the details. So, when the opportunity arose to design color blocks for Berea’s new line of quilts, launching this autumn,…
The common narrative on work colleges is that students work their way through school, paying off their tuition with their labor. It may be the common narrative because…
Ann Adams Hays ’78 has a favorite memory of watching the yellow leaves fall from the gingko tree outside the old science building, which is where the biology…