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College of Creative Arts and Media

Pursue your passions in Art and Design, Media and Communications, Music, or Theatre and Dance alongside a community of fellow students and faculty who will encourage, empower and support you throughout your college journey and beyond.

Future Students

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FUTURE STUDENTS

Find information on tuition, auditions and portfolio reviews, and scholarships. Reach one of our recruiters to plan a visit, sit in on a class or meet a professor.

Information for Future Students
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CURRENT STUDENTS

Our College has a robust in-house student services support team to help you navigate everything from scheduling courses to finding an internship. You'll also find information on technology requirements; grants, scholarships and awards; and clubs.

Resources for Current Students
Art Museum Reception

Alumni and Community

We're grateful for our ever-growing community of alumni and friends, and we're always looking for ways to connect with you, whether it's through student mentorship opportunities, events and museum exhibitions, or service - music and art classes, marketing and design support or other community-focused research and creative activities.

Alumni and Giving Community Engagement

Art Museum

The Art Museum of West Virginia University provides a welcoming and stimulating educational and research environment for diverse audiences to experience the transforming power of art. Exploring contemporary artistic innovation as well as artistic traditions of different cultures helps us to understand ourselves, our communities and our world.

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Places and Spaces

College of Creative Arts and Media students learn, perform and collaborate in 11 buildings across the WVU campus — a massive 150,000 square feet of labs, theaters, studios, classrooms and maker spaces.

Gladys G. Davis Theatre

The Davis Theatre creates an immersive experience for actors and audiences in 3 to 4 School of Theatre & Dance productions each year.

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Broadcast News Studio

The modern studio space and control room includes a live television set and video production equipment that allows students to experience what it's like to work for a broadcast news program.

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Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries

The Mesaros Galleries serve to educate students, faculty, and staff across the university as well as the larger Morgantown community, with special emphasis on art majors and students of art history. Exhibitions focus on innovative, experimental art that advances scholarship and discourse in the field.

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Internships and Career Opportunities

We want to ensure you get the internships and professional experience that lead to a dream career. Our alumni mentors and Internship Alliance partners connect you with opportunities locally and around the world.

Internships and Career Opportunities

Latest News

Community invited to Art Museum reception Jan. 30

The Art Museum of WVU invites the community to the opening reception for the spring 2026 exhibits, “Soft/Cover” and “Material Matters,” on Friday, Jan. 30, from 5-7 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Beginning on Jan. 31, the museum will be open 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Admission is always free.

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Mountain Stage brings Don Was & the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, more to Morgantown

Mountain Stage brings Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble, Vienna Teng, Joe Crookston, William Matheny and more to the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre on Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.

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From thoughts to movement: Dance faculty guide students through major performances

“Celebration of Dance” is a student-led performance, where junior and senior Dance majors can choreograph their own pieces and manage the casting and rehearsals. The performances are typically held in late October or early November in the Antoinette E. Falbo Theatre in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center. Guest adjudicators judge and rank the student-choreographed pieces and provide input to the WVU Dance faculty, who select five to 10 to be performed as part of “Dance Now!” in February.

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Logan Callender’s four years in the Reed School lead to ESPN+ halftime feature

When WVU athletic teams take on Pitt, it’s the Backyard Brawl. When WVU Soccer takes on Marshall, it’s the Mountain State Derby—a different kind of brawl between the state’s top two Division I soccer teams. During the Nov. 12 WVU men’s soccer game versus Marshall, fans watching on ESPN+ were treated to a special feature by WVU Sports and Adventure Media student Logan Callender.

Read More: Logan Callender’s four years in the Reed School lead to ESPN+ halftime feature

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