The School of Art & Design is housed in the Visual Arts Center in downtown Huntington and contains three active art galleries. Events are free & open to all.
June 2-July 11, 2025
Reception: Friday, July 11 from 5:00-7:30 p.m.
Marshall University’s School of Art & Design in partnership with the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts is proud to present The Art of Fellowship, bringing together a diverse range of work from contemporary artists who have been a part of the Foundation’s signature Fellowship programs. Featuring work by Master Fellows, Emerging Artist Fellows, and Entrepreneurial Fellows, the show highlights a powerful cross-section of voices from across the state.
June 30-July 25, 2025
Reception: Friday, July 18 from 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Marshall University’s School of Art & Design is proud to present Remorseful Monster by Chase Bowman. Through recurring motifs and narratives, Bowman’s mixed media drawings summon the strange and the tender of Appalachia. Bowman is an associate professor of art at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia. He earned his undergraduate degree from Marshall University and his graduate degree from the Columbus College of Art & Design.
Marshall University Live Stream of Artist Talks
ByProduct Studios Artist Talk-September 18, 2024
Echo/Locations-Masumi Kataoka Artist Talk-October 7, 2024
Becky Borlan Artist Talk-October 17, 2024
Art Careers Panel Discussion-October 18, 2024
Combined Ceramic Processes-Bryan Hopkins-October 21, 2024
Bryan Hopkins Artist Talk-October 22, 2024
Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll 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.