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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.

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Past Exhibitions

Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project

This installation features two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to our warming world at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or windspeed data into stitch and color, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to notions of identity and experiences of place, and thus “map” a range of encounters from environmental to phenomenological. 

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Evolving Visions: A Century of Women Artists Working in Abstraction

The group exhibition, Evolving Visions: A Century of Women Artists Working in Abstraction brings together the significant works of female abstract artists spanning 100 years.

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Gamaliel Rodriguez: Topographies of Memory

Topographies of Memory is the first mid-career survey of works by artist Gamaliel Rodgriguez. Known for his striking use of color; monochromatic palette; and eerily familiar, yet non-descript landscapes, Rodgriguez’s practice pushes the boundaries of drawing.

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About the Artists

Each semester we explore the inspiration behind the exhibitions.

Karin Broker and Patricia Bellan-Gillen

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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