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Custom Photo Slates for Morgantown, West Virginia
Handmade in Ohio, shipped up into the hills.
Handcrafted one at a time in Coshocton, Ohio — and shipped to Morgantown, West Virginia.
A college town built on the Monongahela
Morgantown sits where the Monongahela River bends through the hills of north-central West Virginia, about an hour south of Pittsburgh and just up the interstate from Fairmont and Clarksburg. It is a college town built around West Virginia University — which means the whole rhythm of the year runs on a campus calendar. Move-in day in August. Tailgates on game day, everyone in blue and gold. Finals. Then May, when the graduates walk, the families fill every restaurant in town, and somebody's grandmother drives up from the hollow to watch it happen.
It is also a town where people are from somewhere nearby. Roots run into the Mon Valley and the surrounding hills, and families come back for the same reasons they always did: mine country holidays, church, and the fact that everybody knows somebody who knows you.
We are not a Morgantown business, and we will not pretend to be. Albritton's Art™ is one workshop in Coshocton, Ohio, and every slate is handcrafted there by one person, one piece at a time. What that means for you is simple: a Morgantown family orders exactly the way anyone else does — send a photograph, approve the design, and the piece arrives at your door in the hills.
From our Ohio workshop into the hills
Straightforwardly: there is no Albritton's Art™ storefront in Morgantown, and we would never claim one. Every piece is printed by hand onto natural slate in Coshocton, Ohio, then boxed with its display stand and shipped to your address — Morgantown, Westover, Star City, Sabraton, Cheat Lake, Granville, or anywhere else around the county.
The stone itself is why these hold up in a place with this much weather. Each slate is split from natural rock, so every chiseled edge is a little different and no two pieces are ever identical. The photograph is printed permanently into the matte surface — no glass, no glare, nothing to frame — and the finished piece stands on its own easel on a shelf, a desk, or a mantel. In a town where the seasons turn hard and the hills stay the same, a piece of real stone feels like the right material for the things that matter.
Keepsakes that tend to mean the most around here run with the year: graduations and WVU milestones, because this town marks a diploma like a holiday. Game-day and tailgate photographs, alumni pride, and the first-game kind of gift. Weddings and engagements, in a young town where people marry right out of school and the whole family drives in for it. Family pieces for roots that go back generations into the Mon Valley. Tributes for the veterans, police, firefighters, and service members this region has always honored in real numbers. And pet memorials, for the dogs and cats that were family too.
Handcrafted in Coshocton, Ohio · shipped to Morgantown, West Virginia. Every slate is made by hand, one at a time, in a single workshop — there is no second location and no storefront in Morgantown.
Keepsakes That Carry Meaning In Morgantown
Keepsakes that are especially meaningful for Morgantown-area families include:
- ✦WVU graduations and Mountaineer milestones — cap and gown, class-of pieces, and alumni pride
- ✦Game-day and tailgate photographs — the family in blue and gold, the first game, the whole crew
- ✦Weddings and engagements, from the hilltop venues to the church downtown
- ✦Family keepsakes for roots in the Mon Valley and the surrounding hills — generations in one frame
- ✦Memorial and remembrance pieces, with names, dates, and a line that mattered
- ✦First responder, military, and service tributes — retirements, promotions, and end-of-watch
- ✦Pet memorials — the dog who rode every gravel road and the cat who owned the porch
Real finished pieces
What yours will look like
Every one of these is a real slate we made, photographed on its display stand. The stone is split from nature, so no two edges are ever the same.
Wedding gifts for Morgantown couples
A college town marries young, and the whole family drives in for it. The piece that lands is simple: the photograph from the day itself, with the couple’s names and the date set into the stone beneath it. It works for the two of them, for the parents who hosted, and for the grandparents who cried through the ceremony — and at a set of three, it is the gift a wedding party actually splits. The Then & Now Pair suits an anniversary, pairing a photograph from the day with one taken years later. The Generations Set is the one people order for the parents: a large portrait in the middle with a smaller piece on either side, so the couple sits in the center and the kids or grandkids flank them.
Family keepsakes
Family is why most people come back to these hills. A reunion piece with everybody in one frame, four generations if you can get them in the same place at the same time. A grandparent keepsake — the grandkids with the family name and the year underneath — is the one that gets set where every visitor can see it. A milestone birthday, an anniversary, a homecoming: all of it works better as something you can hold than another object nobody knows what to do with.
Pet memorials
A dog who rode every gravel road and a cat who owned the porch both belong on stone as much as any portrait does. We print your favorite photograph of them into the slate, with their name and years beneath it if you would like, and it arrives with its own stand. Pet memorials are some of the most meaningful pieces we make, and the ones people tell us they pick up most often on the days that are hardest.
Remembrance gifts
For someone who has passed, the piece is usually a favorite photograph with their name and dates beside it — the picture that looks most like them, not the most recent one. Families here sometimes set a memorial slate out at a service and then bring it home afterward, and some order one for a family member who is grieving. We make these slowly and with care, one at a time, never in a hurry, and nothing is printed until you have seen the design and told us it is right.
Sizes and prices
Six sizes, one keepsake
Every size is the same piece of natural-edge stone with your photograph printed into it, and every one arrives with its own display stand.
- 3 × 5A compact keepsake$15
- 4 × 6The size of a standard photo print$25
- 5 × 5A square, lovely for portraits$30
- 5 × 7Most PopularThe favorite gift size$40
- 6 × 8A step up in presence$45
- 8 × 10The statement piece$55
Not sure which size fits your photograph? All six are drawn to true scale on the order page.
How it works
Four simple steps, one lasting keepsake.
Send us your photo
Text or email the digital photo you want on slate — the original file from your camera or gallery, if you can find it. Higher resolution prints better, but send what you have and we will tell you honestly how it will look on the stone.
We prepare the design — you approve it first
We lay out the photo, and any names, dates, or words you would like with it. We show it to you before anything is made. Nothing is printed until you say it is right.
Printed on stone, hand-finished in Coshocton
Once you approve it, the image is printed onto natural slate and hand-finished in our Coshocton, Ohio workshop. Because the stone is split from nature, every chiseled edge is a little different — no two pieces are alike.
Shipped to your door
Your finished keepsake is boxed with its display stand and sent to your address, ready to set out the moment you open it. Nothing to frame, nothing to assemble.
You do not need a perfect photograph. Wiley personally helps with the selection, cleanup, cropping, and layout — old, faded, and imperfect pictures included — and you approve the design before anything is made.
Shipping to Morgantown
Delivered to your door, West Virginia
Shipping to Morgantown: Free standard shipping on your first order over $150, through October 31. After that, $10 flat.
Sales tax is calculated automatically at checkout for your location. Sizes run $15 to $55.
Standard shipping is $10 flat nationwide. $25 expedited shipping is always charged. Free standard shipping is available on your first order over $150 through October 31.
Returns. Because every piece is made just for you with your own photo, personalized orders are final sale once you approve the design. If it arrives damaged, or it is not what you approved, we will make it right at no cost — a replacement or a full refund. You can cancel for a full refund any time before you approve the design.
Where to start
The collections that fit Morgantown best
A photo from Morgantown, kept in stone.
Send us the photograph from the day the family was all in one place, and we will put it on stone. Sizes run $15 to $55, every piece handcrafted in Coshocton, Ohio, and shipped to your door in Morgantown.
Handmade in Coshocton, Ohio · Sizes $15–$55 · Shipping is $10 flat nationwide standard, or $25 expedited · Sales tax is calculated automatically at checkout for your location
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We ship everywhere in the United States — these are simply the places people have asked about most. Wherever you are, your keepsake is made the same careful way.