Exhibits | Art in the Libraries | West Virginia University

framed photo of franklin roosevelt hanging on a wall

Presenters at WVU

Downtown Library - Classroom 2036

Enjoy a small collection of photographs from WVU's history featuring people presenting at WVU. Those featured include Mother Jones, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Maya Lin and Emily Calendrelli among others.

Groundwork

Health Sciences Pylons | Sept 2024

An exhibition of photography and poetry by Randi Ward. Groundwork began as a photographic study of the fallen, mottled fruits of Asimina triloba: the American pawpaw. Being on the ground, as it were, turned the project into an ecological meditation on intergenerational trauma and the potential for future healing.

2024 Graduate Student Award Winning Exhibit

Downtown Library | Sept 2024

Invasive species are a major threat to agriculture and forest ecosystems. Kushal Naharki's exhibit will showcase innovative methods using drones with optical sensors to detect invasive species.

Healthcare is Human

Evansdale Library | Fall 2024

Healthcare is Human not only paints a compelling picture of the pandemic experience in a small-town medical center, but also pushes back on prevailing, negative stereotypes of Appalachia.

Material Culture Displays

Evansdale Library | Aug. - Dec. 2024

The assembled displays will provide insights into voting culture and history, showcasing a curated collection of ballots, a voting machine training device, informative "field guides" to ballot design and other voting ephemera. Highlights of the exhibition include a mechanical voting machine training unit, used to instruct voters on the use of mechanical voting machines dating back to the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

5% Sodium Fluoride Varnish Pediatric Oncology Provider Training

Health Sciences Library | Aug.-Dec. 2024

This exhibit highlights the collaborative study that evaluated how well healthcare providers understand the importance of fluoride varnish, their comfort level with using it, and their willingness to include it in the treatment plans for pediatric cancer patients to reduce their risk of cavities

Read More About Fluoride and Pediatric Oncology

WVU Art in the Libraries Retrospective: 2015-2024

The retrospective will illustrate and celebrate eight years of exhibits and programs across the three Morgantown-based libraries, showcasing its scope and impact on the campus and community.

Prescriptions for Change: Value Voting in Healthcare

Health Sciences Library | Aug. - May. 2025

A rotational exhibit of mixed media from Skyrocket: What Drug Prices Do, by Katy Giebenhain

Hidden No More: The Enduring Impact of Native American and Enslaved People on the Evansdale Neighborhood and WVU Campus

Evansdale Library | April–August 2024
Downtown Library (6th floor) | May 2024-2025

This exhibit highlights people and circumstances comprising the many stories that are woven into 360 acres of land – Home to Native Americans for thousands of years

WVU Press Exhibition Space

Downtown Campus Library

The WVU Libraries has invited the WVU Press to present rotating exhibits of their newly released book covers around the 2nd floor of the Downtown Campus Library

Murals by WVU Art Movement Students

Downtown Campus Library | South Stairway

WVU undergraduate students in the WVU Art Movement group created acrylic paintings inspired by the seasons in West Virginia.

Contemporary Literary Appalachia: Reimagining Classic Appalachian Book Covers

Downtown Campus Library | ongoing

College of Creative Arts Professor of Graphic Design Joseph Galbreath's advanced design students worked with the West Virginia & Regional History Center Appalachian and Rare Book Collections to reimagine classic Appalachian book covers.

Read More About Literary Appalachia

Paintings by Max Hayslette

Downtown Campus Library (6th floor)

An installation of two-dimensional abstract paintings that are divided into foreground, middleground and background planes.

Photography by Betty Rivard

Downtown Campus Library

An exhibit of West Virginia Landscape Photographs.

Read More about Betty Rivard

Life: Magnified

Health Sciences Library

An installation of thirteen back-lit images showing cells and other scenes of life magnified by as much as 50,000 times from the National Institutes of Health.

Photography by Allan Jones

Health Sciences Library

An exhibit of various medical microscopic photographs using an Olympus polarizing microscope at a 10X objective.

Seeing Through Lines, an exhibition of drawings by Boyd Carr

Downtown Library, Floor 4

This exhibition includes a curated selection of line drawings by the artist, poet and philosopher Boyd Carr, notably known for his iconic line drawing of a sardonic hillbilly named O Hector Lee in The West Virginia Hillybilly, a weekly paper published in Richwood, West Virginia, throughout the 1970s and 80s. There will be a selection of his other creative work on view as well.

Read More About Boyd Carr

Mai We Care: adaptive fashion show

Evansdale Library | Oct. - Dec. 2024

WVU Runway of Dreams presents a display showcasing different adaptive clothing to increase awareness of accessible fashion featuring Mai We Care adaptive fashion.

Unheard Voices

Health Sciences Library | Apr. - Aug. 2024

The aim of this exhibit will be to showcase art created by children currently in foster care who are residing in shelters and group homes across the state of West Virginia.

Trout in the Classroom: A Journey Through Art and Science

Curated by Jennifer Ripley Stueckle, WVU Teaching Professor of Biology, and 2024 WVU Art in the Libraries Faculty Exhibit Awardee. This exhibition showcases the collaborative efforts of local schools, community volunteers, and university students in exploring the life cycle of rainbow trout through quilts, paintings, prints, and photographic documentation of the project process.

Current Exhibits