The call for the 2025 Graduate Student Exhibits Award is closed.
WVU Art in the Libraries Graduate Student Exhibits Awards
As part of its mission, The Art in the Libraries Committee seeks to highlight the art and scholarship of graduate students. With the Graduate Student Exhibits Award, Art in the Libraries committee invites current graduate students to submit ideas for consideration for an exhibit to visually showcase their scholarship in new and experimental ways. These can present a visual evolution of their work, visualize their research and influences, or answer a research question. Graduate student proposals should be based on academic or creative research and lend themselves to visual interpretation with Library consultation.
Goals of these awards are to:
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provide a multidisciplinary platform for deeper learning.
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foster intellectual discourse and discussion.
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demonstrate the breadth of WVU's creative and innovative activity.
Graduate Student Exhibition Award
Exhibit Location: Downtown Campus Library, Graduate Research Commons,
Room 122
Duration: 1 semester
Programs: Awardee can optionally give a public lecture, program or demonstration.
Award: $500 as professional development funds (Awards also include help with design, installation, promotion, and coordination of a public program, offering an opportunity for exposure.)
Eligibility: All WVU graduate students who will be enrolled while the exhibit is on display.
Deadline for submission: May 15, 2025.
How to Submit:
- Download the proposal form.
- Complete the questions on the form.
- Copy and paste abbreviated CV onto the end of the form, along with any example images.
- Save entire document as PDF labeled: Lastname_Firstname_Gradexhibitproposal.pdf.
- Email to sally.brown1@mail.wvu.edu. Subject line: Grad exhibit award proposal.
Winners will be selected by the Art in the Libraries Committee. Selection will be based on applications that best meet the award's goals listed above. Proposals with most complete vision or clearest plan will be given the strongest preference.
Applicants may contact Sally Brown sally.brown1@mail.wvu.edu for a tour and/or consultation before applying.
This is the third Graduate Student Exhibits Award developed from our Faculty/Staff Exhibits Award.
Proposal Examples (note these are from faculty so a little more comprehensive):
-Jennifer Ripley Stueckle proposal
Past Graduate Exhibit Award Winners:
2024, Kushal Naharki, Aerial Detection and Release of Natural Enemy Insects using Drones to Manage Invasive Species
2023, Qazi Arka Rahman, Rectifying New Digital Record
2022: Chansotheary Dang, Unboxing the Black Box: The Evolution of Microbial Ecology
Former Faculty/Staff Exhibits Awards Winners:
Past Winners:
2024-25 Award Winner: Jennifer Ripley Stueckle, Teaching Professor of Biology. Title: A rainbow’s fantastic fins.
-Panels of Jennifer Ripley Stueckle exhibit
2023 Faculty/Staff Winner: Yong- Lak Park, Professor of Entomology: Insect Origami: Creative Arts Meets Biological and Physiological Sciences
2022 Faculty/Staff Winner: Colleen Moretz: Sustainable Fashion Design Exploration: Transformation to Zero-Waste.
-Panels of Colleen Moretz exhibit
2020 Faculty/Staff Winner: Nancy Caronia: Dime Novels: Racialization and Erasure.
2019 Faculty/Staff Winner: Lara Farina: Big Green Data: Herbals, Science and Art.
-Panels of Lara Farina exhibit
2018 Faculty/Staff Winner: Jaime Banks & Nick Bowman: Avatars and their Players: From Object to Other.