Heart, Head, and Hand Online Exhibit
Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft explores what it means to make on campus—and the power of design and craft to inspire creativity across disciplines. Founded in 1893, Berea College Student Craft has become a well-established center for student-led design production in the United States. Student Craft includes weaving, woodcraft, ceramics, broomcraft, and craft education outreach programs. These areas engage not only with experiential learning but also with the cultural myths and values that are embedded in objects fashioned by hand. With a history rooted in Southern Appalachian material culture, automobile tourism, and mail-order catalogs, today’s program focuses on student-centered pedagogy and the curious, speculative, inclusive and future-looking potential of craft in the making—heart, head, and hand.
This exhibition is a collaboration between Berea College Student Craft and the Center for Design and Material Culture. Support for this project comes from the Anonymous Fund and the Chipstone Foundation.
This exhibition was on view in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery from October 18, 2023-March 3, 2024.
Making the Future with Berea College Student Craft
Written by Danielle Burke, co-curator of Heart, Head, and Hand & PhD student in Design Studies at UW–Madison
A blog post on the exhibition Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft examines some of the lessons we may learn from craft and design as we cultivate a more equitable and flourishing world.
