Looking for students to participate in the Mountaineer Week Arts Crawl, Friday, Oct. 26, 1-4pm, across campus. Students will go to at least three sites of the twelve and post on their own social media (must have social media and be comfortable with this). Students will not sign-in or out but must email their social media posts to sbdeskins@mail.wvu.edu.
Information listed below.
Mountaineer Week Art Crawl is the third campus art crawl since last fall. This campus-wide activity will highlight the many active campus organizations that have artistic or interpretive programming. The event includes eleven stops with fabulous exhibits ranging from topics from water to Campus Read to science, photography, ceramics and nature. Spanning all three campuses of WVU, Downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences, the Mountaineer Week Art Crawl features a scavenger hunt, exhibits, activities, food and drink at select locations. All free.
Downtown
Downtown Campus Library
WATER exhibit
Will have Lotsa Motsa Pizza and Insomnia Cookies
1pm-4pm
West Virginia & Regional History Center
Wise Library, 6th floor
West Virginia Law and Lawyers (Gallery 1 & 2) and the Drawings of David Hunter Strother (Conference Room)
1pm-4pm
What West Virginia lawyer was the National Commander of the American Legion in 1932-1933?
Mountainlair
Office of Multicultural Programs
Select Pieces from the Mountainair’s Permanent Art Collection
that reflect the history and mystery of the university’s past
11am-4pm
In photo #13 what local crime is being investigated?
Stewart Hall
2nd Floor Gallery
Worksheets with Campus Read related discussion questions and Campus Read bookmarks
8:15am-4:45pm
Find the mice in the architecture
WVU LGBTQ+ Center
Hodges Hall G-06, 127 Hough St.
LOGBTQ+ Political Event Photography
1-4pm
Serenity Place
628 Price St.
Where Art, Friends, and Recovery are always welcome
9am-8pm
Where do art and recovery come together?
What did “Journey Through an Addiction” by Ruth Blackwell Rogers
teach you about recovery?
Evansdale
Art Museum of WVU
30 Fine Arts Drive
McGee gallery and Sculpture Garden
12:30pm-4:30pm
What artist works with fire, earth, air and water?
Watts Museum
401 Evansdale Drive
Mineral Resources Building, Room 125
Opening of “Nemacolin: Patching Up An Appalachian Coal Town”
1pm-4pm
Though nestled in the foothills of Appalachia, a large "battleship" was once located in the town of Nemacolin. What purpose did this large structure serve for the community?
WVU Core Arboretum
Monongahela Blvd, across from the CAC, near the Coliseum
Make your own leaf print station
1pm-4pm
What native, wild-growing fruit does the WVU Core Arboretum celebrate in September every year?
Mesaros Galleries
Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries School of Art and Design
Creative Arts Center (lobby)
1436 Evansdale Drive
Two exhibitions feature work by California based painter and ceramic
artist Sara Bright and collaborative glass sculpture by Rick Schneider and Nikki
Vahle-Schneider.
12pm-9pm
This work of art might just take flight!
Health Sciences
Health Science Center/ Library
Photography from 1918 Flu Pandemic
8am-9pm
What location is the subject of A Moment of Tranquility by Denise Porter?
Pharmacy Museum
Cook- Hayman Pharmacy Museum
1136 Health Sciences Center North
Dr. Charles Ponte will available for museum tours or answer questions
3pm-4pm
