The School of Art & Design is housed in the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington and contains three active art galleries.
May 17 – June 14, 2024
Reception: Friday, May 17 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Wooooooosh invites you to view time-based media art exploring a range of human emotions. Experience the ups and downs of life on Earth through free-floating experimental animation, video, and media installation emerging from the psyche of Marshall School of Art & Design students. The works exhibited were produced during the Spring 2024 semester in Motion Design II and Video Art classes taught by Dr. Tacie Jones.
May 9 – June 14, 2024
Reception: Friday, May 17 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Marshall University School of Art & Design is proud to present Older then Bones: Scenes From Our Mountains, featuring works from Chris DeMaria of Floyd, VA, and Brandy Jefferys of Huntington, WV. The two create colorful, textural paintings of scenes in Appalachia, featuring people, place, and things found there. Playing on the spectrum of kitsch and social realism, their work speaks to Appalachian identity and the perceptions thereof.
June 21 – August 2, 2024
Reception: Friday, June 21 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Marshall University School of Art & Design is proud to present New Blenko Now, a showcase highlighting the reinvigoration of play and design into the storied Blenko Glass Company narrative after weathering brankruptcy and COVID with aplomb and momentum. 2023 signaled the company’s “Year of Experimentation and Color”, and the year that brought together a maelstrom of new relationships with the art glass world, resulting in a new wave of designed wares in 2024 as featured.
Charles W. and Norma C. Carrol Gallery
The Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery hosts a full program of exhibitions by Marshall Students, Faculty, and professional artists from across the country and even across the world including senior Capstone exhibitions and the popular Annual National Juried Exhibition.
Birke Art Gallery
The Birke Art Gallery is host to a series of rotating exhibitions throughout the year including an annual juried student exhibition that has provided decades of art students the opportunity to showcase their best works of art.
Pneumatic Gallery
Housed on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center, the gallery occupies a small and quirky space adjacent to the Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery. The Student Gallery opened in the Fall semester of 2021 in response to a need for exhibition space students and their professors could access on short notice. The Student Gallery was renamed the Pneumatic Gallery in 2024.