The School of Art & Design is housed in the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington and contains three active art galleries.
July 19 – September 5, 2024
Artist Talk: Friday, September 5 from 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Reception: Friday, September 5 from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Marshall University School of Art & Design is proud to present Residence Time a solo-exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Kelley O’Brien. The mixed media installation exposes the unseen violence of industrial pollution in Greensboro, highlighting the contamination of the Cape Fear River Basin with dioxane 1,4, a carcinogen that remains unregulated. The exhibit uses scent, sound, and kinetic sculptures to immerse viewers in the stark reality of environmental neglect, urging a reflection on the broader impact of local actions on human health and the environment.
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.