Hutchins Library is pleased to announce the exhibit “The Other Place” by Bob Wilson and Patrick Lynch. Their work brings together their work and that of other former Berea College students. The exhibit runs from September 8 to October 6, 2026, and it is located in the library's main exhibit wall.
The artists provided the following statement about the exhibit:
"The Other Side" is an art show of work created by former students of the Berea Art Department who for one reason or another did not graduate from the college but instead, transferred to other institutions to finish their degrees or were graduates of Berea College who received non-art related degrees and after graduating became artists. Christine Kuhn is an artist/muralist who lives, works, creates and sometimes teaches in Lexington, Kentucky. Her works of art have been seen and published in various publications and venues in Kentucky and elsewhere. Karla Rose Weakly-Gruber is an artist who lives in Lebanon Junction, Kentucky. She is the owner of Front Porch Art and former artist/art teacher at the Music and Art Center of Cultural Learning in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She studied art education at both Berea College and Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Sylvia Zingg currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska with her family. She actively volunteers her time and talents to various community organizations. She is an RN by trade, but recently has been creating art and working in her studio.
Bob Wilson's biography:
Bob Wilson was born in La Follette, TN in 1954. He graduated from La Follette High School in 1972. In 1982, he entered Berea College as an older student and received his art degree in 1986. He became a member of Chroma Artists Group in the very late eighties/early nineties and was briefly a member of A-1 Arts Lab, both of which were located in Knoxville, TN. He was connected to two Knoxville based groups of poets and at one time was thought to be a poet instead of being a visual artist.
Patrick Lynch's biography:
Patrick Lynch was born in Covington, KY in 1962, Estill County (KY) High School in 1980, and is a 1985 graduate of Berea College as a studio art major. He admits to being just old enough to run home from the school bus to watch the 1960’s soap opera Dark Shadows. Lynch is a past president of the Lexington Art League and a member of the Kentucky Antique Phonograph Society. Since artists often have day jobs, Lynch’s day job for nearly 34 years was in libraries, retiring from the Lexington Public Library after 28 years.
This exhibit is free and open to the public.