The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art introduces a new addition to the museum’s collection — wooden shoes that dance midair — and an opportunity to meet the artist who created the exhibit.

On Thursday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall (adjacent to the museum) on the USU campus, the world-renowned sound sculptor Trimpin will kick off this season’s visiting artist lecture series with a discussion of a new work, Klompen, 96 Dutch wooden clogs that “dance” a different rhythmic pattern each time the sculpture is activated. The artist will show slides of his work during the lecture. Seattle-based Trimpin is a sculptor, musician and composer, most of whose pieces integrate sculpture and music in some way, and many make use of computers to play these instruments.

Installation View Uses of the Real: Originality, Conditional Objects, and Action/Documentation, Contemplation

Ann Preston Art Installation Passacaglia

Located in the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in the Fine Arts Complex on the campus of Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA this art installation was unveiled to the public September 2007. Passacaglia is part of the collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University and has been generously funded by Manon Caine Russell, Kathryn and Caine Wanlass and the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

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Sight & Sound consists of selected paintings and sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection that provide a glimpse of the simultaneous revolutions in art and music that occurred during the twentieth century. Viewers can experience art with the added enhancement of music to gain an understanding of the liberation from traditional forms that transformed both modern art and culture. Located in two major galleries of the museum,this exhibition features listening posts where visitors can hear selections of works by twentieth-century composers such as Edgard Varèse, Luciano Berio, John Cage, George Antheil and Terry Riley. These selections were chosen by musicologist Eric Smigel to demonstrate the new ideas of space, time and the depiction of the new world of technology in art and music.

This exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection focuses on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s, called the Transcendental Painting Group. The group established themselves as artists who strove to define their art beyond the traditions of landscape, still life, and figurative imagery. The artwork selected for this exhibition exemplifies these artists’ explorations of the southwestern landscape, expressions of the sublime, and a universal shared sense of values in human experience. The group’s founding manifesto states the group’s intention to “carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world through new concepts of space, color, light and design to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.”

Picturing Faith is a unique series of photographs showing the place of religion in American society through the lens of some of America's most well known photographers-Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. Co-sponsored by the Department of History / Religious Studies Program and the Mt. West Center for Regional Studies.