Fine
Arts
Berea offers varied opportunities for all interested students to create and
perform.
- Four choral groups and seven instrumental ensembles, including chamber music,
African-American sacred music, jazz, bluegrass, and percussion.
- Presser Music Building, completely renovated in 2003, offers state of
the art recital hall and practice rooms.
- Draper Tower houses the 56-bell carillon used in concerts, teaching,
and daily chimes.
- The Jelkyl Drama Center mounts four annual student- and faculty-directed
performances in the Musser black box theatre or in the McGaw, a
250-seat convertible stage.
- Three dance performing groups, including traditional European and
Appalachian dance, modern dance, and Danish gymnastics, with three
annual dance
performances, as well as regional, national, and international
tours.
- Five student dance clubs include swing dance, Latin dance, praise
dance, hip hop, and African dance.
- Gallery space for student and faculty art and permanent art
collection display, including the Dimitrie Berea Gallery,
dedicated to the
internationally recognized
post-Impressionist painter.
- Art studio space for drawing, painting, design, fibers, printmaking,
ceramics, and sculpture.
