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.
Combat and Art: An Interdisciplinary Conversation will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 23) in the Art Museum Education Center.
Inspired by the current exhibition, "In/Humanity: Combat and War in Art," three WVU faculty will offer their perspectives on how visual depictions of conflict can help us better understand the human experience of war and trauma.
The American Spiritual Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday (Feb. 24) at the Suncrest United Methodist Church.
Join us for an evening of poignant and inspiring melodies as ASE celebrates the strength found through faith during times of hardship and the unifying force of the collective voice of all peoples.
The Marriage of Bette and Boo will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23-25 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 26 in the Canady Creative Arts Center Falbo Theatre.
Stillbirths, alcoholism, divorce, demanding families, illness and “Catholic guilt” are all a part of Durang’s ironic and poignant farce about what marriage and family can be or truly is.
School of Music Guest Recital: Barbara Nissman will be held at 5 p.m. on Saturday (Feb. 25) in the Canady Creative Arts Center Bloch Hall.
Legendary concert pianist Barbara Nissman will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev and Liszt. Following the free concert, Nissman will sign programs, CDs and books.
Wind Symphony & Symphony Orchestra will perform at 2 p.m. on Sunday (Feb. 26) at the Clay Center in Charleston.
The orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's symphonic ballade “Voyevoda,” a high-paced narrative of love, passion, anger and murder (with a strong taste of irony); several of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, raging from excited to dolorous in emotion; a gripping new work by WVU student composer Grayson Fisher; and end with Matthew Jackfert's rousing and awesome arrangement of “Country Roads.”
Mesaros Galleries, open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Marie T. Cochran - Testify, Beyond Place will be on display through 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.