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.