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The WVU College of Creative Arts and Media will offer a variety of performances and events throughout October.

“Earth is a Snowball,” an exhibition of work by faculty in the West Virginia University School of Art and Design, opened with a public reception on Sept. 10 at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center.

Ginger Brooks Takahashi will deliver the first of a series of 2026-27 visiting artist lectures hosted by the WVU School of Art and Design on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 5 p.m. in the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center.

The WVU School of Art and Design hosts a variety of art exhibitions and featured artist lectures each year. The fall 2026 lineup includes a nearly monthlong exhibition of artwork from faculty in a variety of mediums, two lectures related to the Art Museum of WVU exhibition “Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist,” a public art display on the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center grounds, and guest artist lectures on performance/installation art and interior design and architecture.

West Virginia University Fashion Design and Merchandising (FDM) students and faculty will be represented at the 2026 International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Conference, with five undergraduate student designs and three faculty/professional designs accepted for exhibition.

Artist Jamie Lester stands beside the bronze statue "Aphrodite" in the Giardini Marinaressa in Venice, Italy. (Photo courtesy of Jamie Lester)

Joe Lupo, a professor of Printmaking in the WVU School of Art and Design, is presenting the collaborative exhibition “Not Approved by the Comics Code Authority” at the Artists Image Resource (AIR) in Pittsburgh from July 10 to Aug. 29 with assistance from the Myers Foundations.

WVU School of Art and Design alumna Ali Printz was one of 53 creators to receive a $10,000 unrestricted grant as part of the inaugural 2026 State of the Art Prize from Creative Capital.

The WVU Clay Club’s spring pottery sale will take place May 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Douglas O. Blaney Lobby of the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center.

Angela Uriyo, Assistant Professor of Fashion and Design Merchandising at the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts and Media, has been selected as the 2026 Council on Undergraduate Research – Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee.