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The Art Museum of WVU makes education, opportunity, engagement, culture and creativity possible.

EXPERIENCE ART

The Art Museum of WVU is free and open to the public during regular hours.

Art Museum Regular Hours

Wednesday: 3:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Thursday: 3:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Friday: 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Sunday: 12:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Hours subject to change for holidays and University breaks. Galleries are subject to closure. The Museum Education Center staff offices operate on a different schedule: M-F, 8:15 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Parking

Visitors to the Museum may park in one of the two nearby paid parking lots, Short Term Lot 1 or Short Term Lot 9. Proceed on foot along the museum driveway or through the Nath Sculpture Garden to the museum’s entrance, which faces Patteson Drive.

There are ADA accessible parking spots in the driveway directly in front of the museum’s entrance. Parking here is free.

Parking is free on the weekends. During the week, visitors may park without penalty in Area 51 after 4:30 p.m.

On View

Collective Insight: The Harvey and Jennifer Peyton Collection

March 20, 2019 - January 19, 2020

McGee Gallery

Cut Up/Cut Out

October 12 - December 8, 2019

Upstairs Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday, October 18 at 6 p.m., Museum Education Center

Events

Curiosity Series | Discovery Series | Emerging Artist Series

Cut Up/Cut Out Opening Reception

Friday, October 18

Art Museum and Museum Education Center

6:00-8:00 p.m.

The reception is free and open to the public.

Cut Up/Cut Out celebrates the tradition, innovation, and surprising beauty of decorative piercing and cutting as practiced by contemporary artists today. The transformative nature of cutting into and through a surface provides endless possibilities for converting a material from opaque to transparent, from flat to sculptural, from rigid to delicate, and from ordinary to exquisite. The process and precision required for this method of art-making is laborious, technically demanding and always astonishing. Representing a diversity of styles and techniques, this exhibition brings together original works that span a variety of media – from paper and plastic to metal and rubber – by more than 50 artists from around the globe.

Cut Up/Cut Out was organized by Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.

Sponsored by Laurie Erickson and E. Gordon Gee.

Additional support provided by the Friends of the Art Museum, William and Linda Hagerty, and the Joyce Ice Fund for Exhibitions and Acquisitions.