Exhibits | Art in the Libraries | West Virginia University

WVU student photo from study abroad in Argentina

WVU Abroad: Student Perspectives in Photos

Downtown Library | Fall 2025

Explore unforgettable moments captured by WVU students abroad in this photo exhibit celebrating International Education Week 2025. From iconic landmarks to everyday encounters, each image highlights the transformative power of global education.

Playful Worlds: Cats, Aliens, and Beyond

By Jessica Burke | Fall 2025 | Downtown Library Main Floor Case

Jessica Burke, a WVU Biology graduate, creates vibrant digital art of cats and aliens, blending playful textures with her love for sculpting and painting.

Art, Healing and Friendship

WVU Health Sciences Pylons | August 2025 - May 2026

West Virginia University (WVU) Art in the Libraries, in collaboration with the WVU Health Sciences Center and Neal Museum of Health Sciences, is proud to present this exhibit in memory of Dr. Arthur I. Jacknowitz, a cherished and longtime professor in the WVU School of Pharmacy.

Activating Urban Spaces

Downtown Library Room 1020 | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

Three sculptural installations, each intentionally crafted to stimulate movement, will be on display along with information about the principles behind urban design for health and movement.

Artificial Intelligence

Downtown, Evansdale & Health Sciences LIbraries | 2025

For the WVU Art in the Libraries 6th collaborative, multidisciplinary exhibition, we want to invite the WVU community to look at how artificial intelligence might impact fields of study, work, career readiness and community engagement.

Layers of Self: Visual Narratives of Teaching

Downtown Library Graduate Commons | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

This exhibition presents a series of collages based on a qualitative research study exploring how graduate teaching assistants’ lived experiences, beliefs, and backgrounds shape their teaching philosophies.

Passion or Obsession? Michael Loop's Lunchbox Collection

Evansdale Library | August 2025 - May 2026

This exhibit features Michael Loop’s vintage lunchbox collection, capturing childhood nostalgia and the cultural impact of lunchboxes in the ’80s and ’90s. Each box tells a story, blending personal memories with historical charm.

Interprofessional Awards Presents: 2025

Health Sciences Library | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

Launched in 2022, WVoice is a collaborative podcast created by an interdisciplinary team of students from Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health at West Virginia University.

Groundwork

Downtown Library Floor 4 | Summer 2025

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.

Art is Healing

Downtown Library | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

This exhibition will explore the intersection of art and medical science, highlighting how creative expression can support healing across various health conditions.

Imagining the End, Experiencing the Beginning

Downtown Library | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

WVU PhD graduate in English, Olivia Wertz, will present an upcoming exhibition visually exploring key themes from two chapters of her dissertation on climate fiction.

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.

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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.

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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.

Coins Displays

Downtown Library & WVRHC | Spring 2025

WVU art history students curated two exhibits around coins, including one about whether to keep pennies or let them go and one featuring ancient Roman coins.

Current Exhibits