Solidarity Gallery
at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
Housed within the museum, Solidarity Gallery features biannual exhibits which bridge art and history through multi-disciplinary creative practices that focus on artists’ interpretations of Mine Wars memory. The gallery extends the scope of the stories we tell, and welcomes artists into dialog with a history museum in new and experimental ways.
Curation of Solidarity Gallery is facilitated by the Gallery Curatorial Committee. Sorry, but we are booked through 2026 and are not accepting new applications for exhibits at this time.
Current Exhibit:
In this new exhibit, we dive into the historic and powerful educators’ strikes that took place in 1990, 2018 and 2019 through an exhibit of homemade protest buttons, signs, t-shirts, songs, chants, and memes from the teachers themselves and including a narrative by Emily Hilliard, author of Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore & Everyday Culture in Appalachia).
The Children of Mother Jones will be on exhibit throughout our 2024 season.
Past Exhibits
Uncovering Our Past: Building Our Future
new student work about Mine Wars History
June 2022 — December 2022
Including student work from:
Westside High School (Wyoming County)
Tug Valley High School (Mingo County)
Explorer Academy (Cabell County)
Mine Shaft, acrylic painting by Savannah Workman, Tug Valley High School
I Come Creeping
new paintings by
Chris DeMaria
June 2021 — June 2022
Then & Now:
Making Photographs of Mine Wars Memory and Place
new photography by Roger May
September 2020 — June 2021
