The submissions deadline for the Libraries’ Annual Faculty/Staff Exhibits Award is Feb. 28. The Art in the Libraries committee invites current WVU faculty and staff to submit ideas for consideration for an exhibit to visually showcase their scholarship in new and experimental ways, providing a visual evolution of their work, visualizing their research and influences or answering a research question.
The winner will receive a $1,000 professional development funds award, create an exhibition in Downtown Campus Library, Room 1020, and give a public lecture, program or demonstration. Non-art faculty or staff may submit a proposal based on their research or interests that could become visualized with Library consultation and limited resources. Applicants must submit an outline of their proposal on the Propose an Exhibit online form , with “Annual Faculty/Staff Exhibits Award Submission” in the Proposed Exhibit Location section, by midnight Feb. 28.
Read more about WVU Libraries Faculty/Staff Exhibits.
The 2019 winner was English Professor Lara Farina, whose recent research focuses on the botanic world in pre-modern medicine, philosophy, art and literature, specifically that of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Her exhibit, “Big Green Data: Herbals, Science, and Art,” will be on display at the Evansdale Library through May. Farina wrote about her experience in a blogpost on the Libraries’ website.