Guest speakers:

Our event will be like an organized trip to the grocery store. By following the store?s layout, our guests will be able to see everything available in the Art Market. Our hope is that after venturing through the entire store, students will want to check out a career in the visual arts. Think of our guest speakers as an amuse bouche! We will have just the right variety of elements (from WVU students, alumni, and faculty, to artists practicing locally and far away) to tickle your student?s developing tastes!

Jamie Lester

Have you seen the West Virginia state quarter with the New River Gorge bridge on the back? Well, that bridge is a tiny relief sculpture and this is the guy who created it! Cool, huh? He?ll also show examples of other works and talk about how he came to be a renowned sculptor.

Laura Jean McLaughlin

Laura always wanted to be an artist, but was encouraged to go to school to be a Medical Technologist. After graduating, Laura switched gears and went to graduate school to major in ceramics. She is now a full-time ceramic artist who sells her work to over 80 galleries, collectors and designers throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is quite the entrepreneur ? her studio does double, well, quadruple-duty as a coffee shop, gallery and a classroom.

Jack Moffett

An undergraduate degree in graphic design, plus a master?s degree in Interaction design equals work experiences such as designing wearable computers for hardhats and designing software for war fighters. As a freelance designer, Jack Moffett has designed websites, logos, and branding for a variety of companies. He has also taught design classes at Carnegie Mellon and West Virginia University.p.