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This week at the College of Creative Arts

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The College of Creative Arts hosts hundreds of events each year, ranging from visual exhibitions, to musical and theatre performances and more.

Here’s a look at this week’s events.

School of Music WVU Jazz Showcase and Jam Session, featuring WVU students, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 26) at the Morgantown Art Bar. 

Mesaros Galleries, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 

Marie T. Cochran - Testify, Beyond Place will be on display Jan. 26 - March 2 in the Paul Mesaros Gallery.

Cochran, a self-proclaimed “cultural pollinator,” is the founding curator of the Affrilachian Artist Project which celebrates the intersection of cultures in Appalachia.

11th Annual Juried Student Exhibition will be on display through March 2 in the Laura Mesaros Gallery.

This exhibition features student work in ceramics, photography, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, painting, drawing, video and animation. 

The Art Museum of WVU spring exhibitions are open from 12:30-6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

"In Concert: Photography and the Violin” features 250 original photographs, spans a period of more than 175 years and includes examples of nearly every photographic process.

McGee Gallery exhibits bring ideas and objects together in new ways, highlighting the breadth and depth of the Art Museum’s permanent collection:

  • “In/Humanity: Combat and War in Art,” is an examination of how visual art can help us understand the human experience of conflict,

  • “Encounters: Blanche Lazzell’s Justice Mural,” exploring the creation of a major work by West Virginia native and noted American modern artist Blanche Lazzell originally made for the Monongalia County Courthouse in 1934 and,

  • “Printing the Picture” on view in the Deem Print Gallery.

The McGee Gallery rotates every fall and spring with new thematic exhibitions drawn from the Art Museum’s holdings of more than 4,000 objects in diverse mediums. 

Find a full schedule of events.