Traveling Exhibits
The WVU Libraries Art in the Libraries program has a limited number of exhibitions available to travel for display in other venues. Most exhibitions are for an audience of high school level or above. Exhibitions range from artwork to educational to playful and promotional, and can be installed easily with hanging systems, command strips or other simple methods. No fee is requested for rental, though shipping costs might be requested, depending on location. Loan periods can range from 3 to 12 months. Promotional images and text are available for marketing.Insurance is not required for these exhibitions as they are all printed in-house, though safe care is expected. Find the list of available exhibitions below and contact Libraries Exhibits Coordinator Sally Brown for consultation sally.brown1@mail.wvu.edu
Food Justice in Appalachia:Multi-disciplinary exhibition of art, scholarship, activism and educational information around food security in the region. Currently on view at WVU DCL thru June 2022, when it will travel for 6 months to WVU Beckley Campus Library. Thereafter the 40 foam core panels are available for travel, can hang with command strips. Print exhibition complemented by online exhibit, with K-12 lesson plan and Library Guide, all available on the Exhibits page.
American Dime Novel: Racialization / Erasure: This exhibition, originally on display in the fall of 2022 at the WVU Downtown Library, includes a series of dime novel covers, showing how stereotypes of these communities followed and / or promoted state and national policies regarding immigration policies including the Chinese Exclusion Act, Indian removal acts, and early Jim Crow practices focused on voter suppression. Curator Nancy Caronia, Prof. of English, was the 2020 Art in the Libraries Faculty Exhibition Awardee. The exhibit includes around 25 foam core poster prints ranging from 8x11 to 16x20" and labels with contextualization for each poster print. Can be hung with command strips or with reinforcement hooks. Also, an online exhibit provides further detailed history on each theme.
Passion or Obsession?: Gordon Gee's Bow Ties: Eight panels
with photographs and text about WVU President Gordon Gee's bow tie collection.
24x18 color panels on foam core, can be hung with command strips or with
reinforcement hooks. Originally hung in EVL spring 2019 with a selection
of his ties.
Famous WV Women: Portraits of famous women in WV history with
short blurbs. Twenty 8x10 prints in gold frames, can be hung with command
strips. Originally hung in March 2017 exhibit at Arts Mon, then at HSL 2019.
Looking at Appalachia: 70 photographs around Appalachia from
Roger May's curated exhibit and project. All framed prints around 16x20,
can be hung with command strips or the wireback. Originally on display 2016-18
at DCL, then donated to the Art in the LIbraries program. Since then a selection
has gone on display at EVL and HSL.
Big Green Data: Herbals, Science and Art: 2019 Art in the Libraries
Faculty Exhibit Award winner Lara Farina exhibit around the botanic world
in pre-modern medicine, philosophy, art, and literature, specifically that
of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The exhibit introduces viewers to
historic herbals, the art and literature they inspired, and present-day correlatives.
Illustrations from premodern herbals and encyclopedias (some from botanical
works in the WVRHC Rare Books collection and the WVU Herbarium) are highlighted.
Twenty color prints on foam core, 18x24, can be hung with command strips
or reinforcement hooks. Originally on display in DCL 2019, then EVL 2020.
DCL = WVU Downtown Campus Library
EVL = WVU Evansdale Library
HSL = WVU Health Sciences Library