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The Art Museum has more than 4,000 paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture and ceramics with messages for you from across the globe and over the centuries.
Take a look at our collectionThe Art Museum is closed for the summer and will reopen in August.
The Art Museum has more than 4,000 paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture, and ceramics with messages for you from across the globe and over the centuries.
Take a look at our collectionThis exhibition invites visitors to explore how a book can “radiate” beyond the page to the wider world. How do books work? What is their impact, both on individuals and the broader society? How have our answers to these questions changed over time, and what is yet to come?
Read More: Radiant Pages: The Art of the BookThis exhibition honors the 30-year legacy of support by Alison and Patrick Deem to the School of Art & Design at West Virginia University for an annual lecture by an outstanding guest artist. Since 1995, the Deem Distinguished Lecture has brought artists and arts professionals of international reputation to campus including three MacArthur Foundation “genius” awardees. This exhibition highlights some of those artists work which highlights the quality and diversity of this lecture series.
Read More: Thirty: Celebrating 30 Years of the Deem Distinguished Lecture SeriesThis two-person exhibition of recent drawings and sculptures created by Pittsburgh artist Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Texas artist Karin Broker, is inspired by the creative dialog the artists have engaged in for years. Both artists are known for carefully crafted, elaborate artworks that suggest narratives influenced equally by traditional myths and contemporary society. The surrealist tendency in their artmaking is also heavily imbued with feminist themes.
Read More: Screams and Whispers: Karin Broker and Patricia Bellan-GillenEach semester we explore the inspiration behind the exhibitions.
Join us for an insightful conversation with artists Patricia Bellan-Gillen and Karin Broker as they discuss their latest exhibition, Screams and Whispers, on view at the Art Museum of WVU through May 11. In this interview, Bellan-Gillen and Broker share how their long-standing creative dialogue has influenced their work, blending elements of traditional myths, contemporary society, and feminist themes.
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