West Edge Factory

09/24/2025

This Saturday.....

09/08/2025

09/04/2025

Join us for Ground Up Gathering!

09/04/2025

🌟 REGISTRATION OPEN for Ground Up Gathering 2025: bit.ly/3HzxoMZ 🌟

📣 Calling all community members, nonprofits, small businesses, state agency staff, students—anyone looking to co-create solutions for Appalachian people, the places we call home, and our shared prosperity.

🗓 Friday, Sept. 26
🕒 2–6PM
📍 West Edge Factory, Huntington, WV

Here’s what you can expect:
✅ Solution Labs → talk challenges, map assets, and brainstorm bold ideas for our region
✅ Expo → discover local solutions already making a difference
✅ Matchmaking Activity → connect with people who can help bring your solution to life
✅ Interactive Trainings → see how Coalfield's big ideas became real solutions in workforce, construction, energy, food system, and more
✅ Food + Fun → farm-to-table eats from The Wild Ramp 🥗, shop local goods 🛍️, and live music 🎶 from Hoot & Holler!

⏰ Can’t make it until after work? No problem—come after 5PM for trainings, shopping, music, and more!

👉 Register (FREE, but required—so fill out this short form!) bit.ly/3HzxoMZ

09/02/2025

08/25/2025

Make plans to attend the screening of Generation Growth Wednesday, August 27 at the West Edge Factory. Meet Stephen Ritz and be inspired to be part of at Stepping Stones. The Wild Ramp Green Bronx Machine Coalfield Development Corporation WVU Wayne County Extension Service Refresh Appalachia Project Healthy Kids Pallottine Foundation of Huntington WV Grow This: WV Garden Challenge Wayne County Board of Education Wayne County Prevention Coalition

https://youtu.be/vloY-YL8dxE

08/18/2025

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chair-yoga-tickets-1601343534619?aff=oddtdtcreator

Come join us at West Edge for a relaxing and rejuvenating session of Chair Yoga. Perfect for all ages!

08/15/2025

This week, Coalfield Development’s Creative Placemaking program kicked off its new Art Local initiative with a custom-curated collection of regional art for the walls of Culture Change Cafe!

DuRon Jackson and his team have created a unique space in Huntington, where you can enjoy made from scratch, delicious food in a positive, community-change focused environment. He is an inspiration to this community, and he needed equally inspiring walls to match his energy!

Customers interested in artworks from the walls of the cafe can visit www.westedgeart.com/collections/culture-change-cafe to see the works, learn about the featured artists, and purchase pieces. Purchased works will be de-installed, wrapped, and available for pickup within a week!

Artists who are interested in being included in this initiative can email Sassa Wilkes at swilkes@coalfield-development.org.

Stay tuned for a reception at Culture Change to celebrate! Thanks for being our first Art Local spot, Duron!

08/12/2025

Hello from Capon Bridge, WV! My name is Amy Pabst and I am a senior at Marshall University. I am currently in my fourth and final week of an artist residency at in Capon Bridge. The River House and Marshall worked together to bring me here for the residency. I’m doing a takeover of Marshall’s art account so you can see how great the residency has been! Stay tuned for lots of quilts.

08/08/2025

A reminder about the Creative ReUse Fest originally scheduled for this weekend!

♻️ Important update — Creative Reuse Fest + the Upcycled Art Show is moving to October, just in time for National Sustainability Month!

The event will now be fully organized and hosted by our friends at Marshall University Sustainability Department💚

For updates and details, you can follow them here: marshall.edu/muarc/sustainability

And stay tuned to our page for other future events! 📣