Insect Origami: Creative Arts Meet Biological and Physical Sciences
Curated by 2023 Art in the Libraries Faculty Exhibit Awardee Long-Lak Park, Professor of Entomology, Davis College, this upcoming exhibit displays over 20 origami models and demonstrate the art of insect origami through hands-on activities.
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Artificial Intelligence
Downtown Library
| 2024
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.
Base Camp Printing
Evansdale Library | Fall 2023
The show includes prints from Base Camp’s 7 years of business. All work
is made with hand-set type and carved linoleum, then, handprinted on
old-fashioned printing presses.
Seeing Through Lines, an exhibition of drawings by Boyd Carr
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.
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The Mountain Traditions Project
Downtown Library | Fall 2024
The Mountain Traditions Project tells the stories of 50 individuals who
are carrying forward Appalachian traditions in our rapidly changing
world, challenging long-held notions of cultural rigidity in Appalachia,
and exploring the heritage of the region as a rich, diverse tapestry
of traditions that is inclusive of a plurality of voices, identities,
and perspectives.
Hacking the Library
Downtown Library
| August 2023
This exhibit will present artwork that highlights the intersecting values
that shape our libraries through an artistic lens, reflecting on challenges
and definitions of libraries past and as we move into the future.