Past Exhibits
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The Juliet Art Museum is pleased to announce its third Juliet Art Museum Invitational Exhibition, celebrating contemporary West Virginian artists working in diverse media from all across the state. This exhibition will celebrate West Virginia's vibrant art communities and the unique voices that make our region exceptional.
Join Tracey the pencil dog and her crew—Rooth, Drop, Inky, Uno, and Kari—on a fantastically immersive journey to create stories using science and imagination. Channel your creativity and develop your own animated masterpiece using animation basics like storyboarding, sketching, stop-motion movie making, and more!
The Juliet Art Museum invites visitors to engage directly with the art-making process while exploring rarely exhibited still life works from our permanent collection in Still Life: Drawing from the Collection. This exhibition highlights the richness and diversity of still life as a genre, showcasing a range of artistic approaches and styles across time.
Modernist Echoes: From Picasso to West Virginia highlights work from the Juliet Art Museum’s permanent collection, showcasing how Modernism—a movement that revolutionized artistic expression in the 20th century—reshaped the way artists engaged in art making.
Step into the fascinating world of the human mind with Mindscapes: A Journey Through the Brain. This interactive exhibit invites visitors to journey through the inner workings of our most complex organ.
Collecting and Recollecting is on view from February 4, 2025 - April 27, 2025. Immerse yourself in the artistry and heritage of quilts crafted by talented artisans from Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. This traveling exhibition from the International Quilt Museum is the result of an extraordinary collaboration with researchers from diverse backgrounds. Together, they have discovered, documented, and acquired quilts that reflect the distinctive cultural identities of these three regions.
Beauty Runs Free: A Rooted Rhapsody is on view from December 19, 2024 - March 30, 2025. This exhibition highlights the diverse perspectives of West Virginia artists as they reflect on life in the Mountain State, offering a compelling exploration of identity, culture, and the natural beauty that defines the region.
Discover new environments on Earth and in space! Life on the Edge is an exhibition exploring extreme environments on Earth and expanding awareness of the possibilities for life in our Solar System and beyond.
Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit is based on Mo Willems’ all-ages book, Opposites Abstract, published by Hyperion Books for Children.
The Juliet Art Museum presents Rosalie Haizlett’s traveling exhibit, showcasing her watercolor paintings from a journey through the Appalachian Mountains. On display from August 31 to December 8, the collection features vibrant landscapes, detailed maps, and close-up views of regional flora and fauna.
The next Juliet Art Museum artist-in-residence is ceramicist Shoji Satake, an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at WVU and Coordinator of the School’s Ceramics in China program.
In celebration of Charly’s life and work, the Juliet Art Museum at the Clay Center has organized a retrospective exhibition that will examine his entire artistic career, drawing on private and public collections as well as archival materials.
Stories of mythical beings have been with us for thousands of years. These legends, which were sometimes inspired by fossils or living animals, continue to inspire us today.
Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that the tourist ships do not reach and few people get to witness in person.
Using the rhythmic process of rug hooking, artists in this exhibition tell personal stories of motherhood, healing, and environmentalism.
Nichole Westfall is known for her colorful murals across our region: joyful, whimsical scenes created with large blocks of color and patterning. She will be our Artist in Residence from Nov. 17 through Dec. 20, working on new paintings with an open studio.
A new traveling exhibition presents the work of Romare Bearden (1911–1988), an African American artist, author, and jazz songwriter who countered racial stereotypes with imagery drawn from history, literature, and the free world of his imagination.
Become an environmental steward in the Avampato Discovery Museum and learn about the secret lives of those who live amongst the trees. Families can explore, design and build their own treehouse, stomp on the forest dance floor to discover the sounds of the forest, and much more!
We are relishing all things food at the Clay Center this summer as we open our new café! To mark the occasion, this exhibition examines images from our permanent collection of or related to food, analyzing cultural foodways, consumerism, and hierarchies in the canon of art.
Since opening in 2003, the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of WV has hosted many exciting exhibits and performances, and acquired wonderful works of art. Discover our diverse history through this exhibition of artwork from our permanent collection!