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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
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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.

Ag Sciences South and Annex

WVU's Agricultural Sciences Building and adjacent Agricultural Sciences Annex include newly renovated lab spaces and classrooms for Design Studies, Fashion Design and Merchandising, and Interior Architecture.

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Amy A. Bircher Textiles Laboratory

The Amy A. Bircher Textiles Laboratory provides a space for students to use a variety of scientific testing to better understand what properties a fiber presents including its strengths, weaknesses, how it’s made, dyed and finished.

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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.

Read More: Laura & Paul Mesaros Galleries

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

Grammy-winning bluegrass artist Tim O’Brien comes to Morgantown April 1

The WVU School of Music invites the community to “An Evening with Tim O'Brien” at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center on April 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Read More: Grammy-winning bluegrass artist Tim O’Brien comes to Morgantown April 1

WVU music education org receives national award

This February, WVU’s ASTA chapter saw its hard work pay off when it received “Most Improved Student Chapter” at the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the American String Teachers Association Collocated Conferences in San Francisco.

Read More: WVU music education org receives national award

WVU’s Joseph Lupo creates cohesive chaos from comic book imagery in “Chronic Uncertainty”

WVU School of Art and Design Associate Director and Professor of Printmaking Joseph Lupo’s exhibition “Chronic Uncertainty” is on display in the Annex Gallery at the Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh now through April 4.

Read More: WVU’s Joseph Lupo creates cohesive chaos from comic book imagery in “Chronic Uncertainty”

“Riverdance” comes to Morgantown April 6

International sensation “Riverdance 30 – The New Generation” comes to the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre on April 6 at 7:30 p.m. This special 30th anniversary “Riverdance” tour features a “new generation” of performers all younger than the iconic show itself.

Read More: “Riverdance” comes to Morgantown April 6

Upcoming Events

Events and Exhibitions

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