Spaces

On November 16, 2022, the Birke Art Gallery moved from its historic home in Smith Hall to its new home on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center. Due to the Birke Art Gallery’s location in the front of the Visual Arts Center, in full view of the windows facing 3rd Avenue, the public would for the first time be able to pass by and peer into the exhibitions on view and see at a glance creative atmosphere inside the School of Art & Design.

On September 18, 2014, the School of Art & Design opened a beautiful 2,200-square-foot gallery on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center amid a flurry of excitement.  The opening of the gallery was part of a community open house celebrating the opening of the Visual Arts Center. The inaugural exhibition, We ART Marshall, featured artwork by students, faculty, and alumni of Marshall University.

Housed on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center, the Pneumatic 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. In 2024, the Student Gallery was renamed Pneumatic Gallery.

Gallery 842 was an art gallery located at 842 4th Avenue between 2009 and 2014.  When it opened in the Spring of 2009, Gallery 842 was a volunteer driven organization with a mission to create a public space for art to enhance the cultural landscape of downtown Huntington.  The idea for the gallery was initiated by Lynn Clercx, a Huntington realtor and wife of Byron Clercx who was the chair of the Department of Art & Design at Marshall University. Liza Caldwell, a Huntington business person donated.