Voices, Visibility, and Community: LGBTQ+ West Virginia
Evansdale Library | West Virginia University Libraries
This exhibit celebrates the vibrant, resilient, and diverse LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations who have shaped communities across West Virginia. From rural counties to college towns, West Virginians have built chosen families, led advocacy efforts, created art, and forged spaces of belonging — often against the odds. Through stories, objects, and images contributed by community members statewide, Voices, Visibility, and Community honors those who came before, amplifies voices of the present, and looks with hope toward the future.
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Hollow of History: Women of West Virginia
2026 Graduate Student Exhibit Award Winner | On Display: Fall 2026 - Spring 2027 | Downtown Library Graduate Commons Room Curated by: Kendall T.W., WVU Department of History Exhibition Talk & Presentation: Spring 2027 (Date and time TBA)
"Hollow of History: Women of West Virginia" is an exhibition celebrating four extraordinary women who made monumental contributions to the Mountain State through artistry, advocacy, and academia. By centering their legacies within the WVU Downtown Library, this exhibit aims to firmly integrate their names into the lexicon of West Virginia’s most celebrated historical figures.
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EVL Study Rooms | Fall 2026 - Spring 2027
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.
WVU Art in the Libraries Retrospective: 2015-2024
The retrospective illustrates and celebrates 10 years of exhibits
and programs across the three Morgantown-based libraries, showcasing
its scope and impact on the campus and community.
Reflecting on Freedom: 250 Years Through the Eyes of WVU Alumni Artists
Downtown Library (Main Campus) | August 2026 - May 2027
In honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary, the 2026–27 WVU Alumni Art Show invites viewers to explore freedom and independence through the eyes of West Virginia University alumni artists. This exhibition gathers a rich spectrum of perspectives—personal, historical, political, and cultural—demonstrating that the meaning of liberty is neither fixed nor singular.
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The Architecture of Care: Visualizing Invisible Labor in the Health Humanities | A Collaboration between WVU Art in the Libraries and WVU Press
WVU Health Sciences Pylons | August 2026 - May 2027
"The Architecture of Care" is an invitational exhibition highlighting the often-unseen labor of caregiving in clinical and domestic settings. Featuring high-resolution reproductions and artist narratives, it explores the emotional and physical demands of care while celebrating the launch of WVU Press’s "Connective Tissue" series, showcasing artists like Sally Jane Brown, Julia Clift, and Miki Nishida Goerdt.
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Libertas e Fidelitate: Rights and Revolution in West Virginia’s Coalfields
Curated by the Watts Museum at WVU | WVU Downtown Library, 6th Floor Reading Room | Summer - Fall 2026
Libertas e Fidelitate: Rights and Revolution in West Virginia’s Coalfields is a seven-panel exhibit that uses historical images and text to explore how miners and their families drew on America’s founding ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to challenge oppression, redefine loyalty, and fight for better lives in the coalfields.
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Health Sciences Library | Summer - Fall 2026
This exhibition will explore the intersection of art and medical science, highlighting how creative expression can support healing across various health conditions.
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Paintings by Dr. John Mauger and Jeffrey Mauger
Evansdale Library (Main Floor) & Downtown Library (Classroom 2036) Summer 2026
This presentation follows the recent Art in the Libraries exhibition at the Health Sciences Center Pylons (2025-26), which was held in memory of Dr. Arthur I. Jacknowitz, a beloved professor in the WVU School of Pharmacy. "Dr. J" was a passionate advocate for integrating the arts into the health sciences to provide inspiration and balance for students and professionals.
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The Journey of 'Carl': Advancing Collaborative Care | 2026 Award for Excellence
in Interprofessional Education
Health Sciences Library, Fall 2026 - Spring 2027
West Virginia University’s Office of Interprofessional Education & WVU Libraries recognize outstanding faculty, staff, and students through Awards for Excellence in Interprofessional Education, showcased in an Art in the Libraries exhibit celebrating scholarship and creativity. This exhibit highlights the 2026 IPE Award–winning team, who developed a six-semester simulation series emphasizing collaborative practice and continuity of care.
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Collaborative Care: Leading the Future of Reproductive Health Exhibition
Health Sciences Library | Fall 2026 - Spring 2027
This exhibit highlights the work of Maegan Casimir (PharmD Candidate, ’26), who developed a multi-year interprofessional contraceptive education workshop at West Virginia University to address gaps in reproductive healthcare training. By bringing together students and professionals across healthcare disciplines, the initiative strengthens clinical knowledge, collaboration, and patient-centered care through hands-on learning and research.
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I Became Myself Again
Co-led by Dr. El Didden and faculty mentor Dr. Kacie Kidd | WVU Downtown Library
Room 1020 | June 2026 - May 2027
This powerful mixed-media exhibition bridges the gap between clinical research and human storytelling. Created through community-based focus groups, the collection offers a rare, intimate window into the visceral and joy-filled journeys of personal and societal acceptance within our community.
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Remain: An Exhibit by L. Renee Downtown Library
Spring - Fall 2026 | DL - 2nd floor
Remain is an interdisciplinary poetry project by L. Renee, WVU Libraries’ Mountain Artist in Residence, created in collaboration with the WVRHC to poetically reframe archival records on mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. Through forms like erasure and found poetry, the exhibit transforms environmental and community archives into acts of witness about life after ecological and industrial disruption.
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Zines: Post Workshop Exhibit
Downtown Library Floor 2 near Student Lounge | Spring - Fall 2026
This exhibit showcases the power of the "small press" to amplify voices from the margins and the mainstream alike. Coordinated by Rigby Phillips, WVRHC Rare Books Curator, this exhibit invites you to explore the photocopied world of the underground.
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WVU Downtown Library StairwellsThis exhibit is a selection of photographics from Roger May's Looking at Appalachia project.
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