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The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received two major grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art in the last 12 months.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) and University Press of Colorado have announced the publication of Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramic Collection and the Woman Behind It.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University and University Press of Colorado announced the publication of Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramic Collection and the Woman Behind It.

You’d be forgiven if you didn’t associate these first, heavy paintings in oil with everything else that follows in the Harrison Museum of Art’s retrospective exhibition of Logan artist Jane Catlin. In this small alcove, a half-dozen eerie paintings in thi...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) and University Press of Colorado have published Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramic Collection and the Woman Behind It. The ground-breaking, 256-page publication showcases selections f...

Logan, UT — The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in will open a new art exhibition titled San Francisco: The Golden Age, 1930-1960, Making a Scene. This exhibition is drawn exclusively from the NEHMA collection and will be open for viewing from June 18,...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) offers art programs for all ages this summer. Artmaking stimulates different brain areas, improving productivity, innovative thinking, mental health resilience and creativity. “Creating Wellness” is a free, o...

Murals painted by teachers and students at the former Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City have been preserved and will be on display next year at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of art.

USU’s Advanced Patternmaking class is asking students to design clothing based on artwork in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. The class has used NEHMA for inspiration with this assignment for the last five years. The public can see these clothing c...

After almost two years, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will close its groundbreaking ceramics exhibition Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection and the Woman Behind It.

Announcing its latest concert in the longstanding Museum + Music Series, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University presents A Musical Voyage With Jane Catlin: Highline Drifters and Friends from 3-4:30 p.m. April 7 in the gallery of N...

The growing number of pottery studios in Salt Lake and Utah counties suggests an uptick in ceramics interest in the area. Sadly, an accompanying expansion in venues to enjoy and discover the very best the medium has to offer has yet to manifest—at least n...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will host a talk with renowned artist Jann Haworth on March 1. The event, “A Conversation with Jann Haworth,” will explore Haworth’s work as a Pop artist, her pioneering experiments in soft s...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will host a talk with renowned artist Jann Haworth on March 1.

Looking for ways to reduce screen time, unplug, and gain quality time with family and friends? Join people from all across the world in “Global Day of Unplugging” from March 1-2 from sundown to sundown.

Utah State University's Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is presenting a new exhibition this week in honor of Utah female artist Jane Catlin.

An upcoming concert will showcase flutist Jeiran Hasan and pianist Amy Glenn as they provide a soundscape for visual works from Black artists.

Winners of the 2024 Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest will be announced at Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Community Art Day on Saturday, Feb. 10. Clean air public service announcements created by this year’s 57 final...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University presents the exhibition “Jane Catlin: A Retrospective.” This exhibition is a heartfelt way of honoring Jane Catlin’s career as an artist and highlights the evolution of her artistic expressi...

Representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities visited the future site of the Wanlass Center at Utah State University on Jan. 19, 2024. The new center for art education and research received $750,000 in NEH funding in 2022. From left to ri...

A new exhibition of contemporary art, made possible by two Utah State University professors, will be on display at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum in Logan starting Jan. 27.

Nora Eccles Harrison is a relatively unknown figure in the history of ceramics in the United States, and yet her impact on the field of ceramics in the western United States is immense.

An exhibition honoring Terry and David Peak as collectors and supporters of NEHMA will open with a reception at the museum from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 27. This exhibition, Perception and Abstraction, The Terry & David Peak Collection, will consist of landscape pai...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is excited to unveil the newest addition to its "Museum + Music" series, where the realms of art and music converge to address the urgent theme of climate change.

For the 10th year now, Utah State University's music department is collaborating with the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum for a free concert this weekend.

Now in its 10th year, the Museum + Music Series will kick off at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, with the concert “Unearthed: Artists and Musicians as Patrons,” featuring Logan Canyon Winds. This series is free and open to the public.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art strives to promote dialogue about ideas important to the people of Utah. One important idea that NEHMA currently highlights is the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will recognize local firefighting organizations at its Community Art Day on Oct. 14.

USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art hosted an open panel discussion this month about their “Facing Fire” exhibit and the many impacts of fire on art and our landscapes.

A fire policy expert, an ecologist, a hotshot wildland firefighter and two artists will join audiences for the panel “Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment & Policy in the West” at Utah State University on Saturday.

USU is hosting a panel on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. for the “Facing Fire” exhibit that is taking place at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum through Dec. 16. Artists, policymakers and a firefighter will be featured panelists.

After an extensive search, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University welcomes Danielle Stewart, Ph.D., as their new Curator and Head of Academic Engagement. Stewart brings experience as an art history professor and a curator to this ...

Thursday, Aug. 3, was the last day of the “Around the Campfire” summer camp in Cache Valley for children ages 6 to 12. The various games and art activities made for a fun-filled week that ended with a visit from the Logan City Fire Department.

From senior citizens to toddlers, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is offering educational opportunities to individuals of all ages...

A comprehensive story of wildfire in the West is the subject of a new exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University.

This year’s theme of fire reflects the art pieces that currently reside in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s new exhibition “Facing Fire,” which opened July 8. Chiara Sorensen, educator at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, said it was curated...

In about 12 to 14 months, a new art center will open on the Utah State University campus.

Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will break ground on the new Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research later this month.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is excited to announce a moderated conversation with renowned assemblage artist George Herms, led by NEHMA Curator of Collections & Exhibitions Bolton Colburn. This event promises to be an engaging discussion about t...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is excited to announce an end-of-semester event, “Escape the Museum,” featuring four different interactive escape rooms along with pizza and prizes for those who complete the challenges.

In Melissa Clark's FCSE 3040 Advanced Clothing Studies: Pattern Making class, students have a bit of a unique assignment. Inherited when she took on the course — Clark credits her colleague Amber Williams with setting up the collaboration initially — the ...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University continues its “Museum and Music” series with “The Art of Improvisation: Indian Classical Music in the Hindustani Tradition.”

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will host a reception for “The Art of Fashion: Designs Inspired by NEHMA.”

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is excited to announce the culmination of this year's Creative Aging classes in partnership with the Cache County Senior Citizen Center.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University’s art museum is hosting a new exhibition, “The Squares and the Beats” which opened on Jan. 28.

Winners of the 2023 Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest will be announced at Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art Community Art Day on Saturday, Feb. 11.

A new exhibition in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art playfully explores American values from the 1950s and 1960s through works of art by Jeremy Anderson, Sidney Gordon, Knud Merrild, John Bernhardt, George Herms and Gordon Wagner.

The 2022 Inaugural Lecture Series saw four faculty in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences recognized as full professors: Christopher Conte (History), Patrick Mason (Religious Studies), Brian McCuskey (English), and Rebecca Walton (Technical Comm...

November’s theme is “birds” to celebrate fall migration of birds. Visitors can have fun finding feathered friends throughout the museum on Utah State University's Logan campus...

Following a project to document Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos, Utah State University Professor of Hispanic Studies J.P. Spicer-Escalante is sharing his experiences in a photography exhibit now on view in West Valley City.

Utah’s first poet laureate, David Lee, was invited to Utah State University's Logan campus to share his work with students and the community as part of the now-annual Ken Brewer Festival of Writing, sponsored by the Department of English. A live jazz band...

The room is silent, nothing disturbing the still air but the few visitors stopping to observe the various shapes, colors and sizes of the ceramic displays in front of them.

A major art exhibition opening this week at Utah State University will celebrate the influence of philanthropist art collector Nora Eccles Harrison in supporting ceramics artists in the American West.

“Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It” highlights 292 ceramic works of art from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s collection.

Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It highlights over three-hundred ceramic works of art from the NEHMA collection.

A groundbreaking ceremony in less than two weeks will mark the start of work on the new Wanlass Center for Art Education and Research at Utah State University.

There are 30 quilts spanning nearly a century and a half on display until Tuesday June 7, at the museum. The hours are 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.

USU alum and award-winning fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra visited Utah State University’s Logan campus on March 24 and 25, where he reconnected with former advisers, mentors, faculty, friends and family.

Award-winning fashion designer Bibhu Mohapatra will visit Utah State University’s Logan campus March 24-25 to host a series of events. Mohapatra has dressed the likes of actresses Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya and former first lady Michelle Obama.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will celebrate its 40th anniversary on from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, March 19, and everyone in the community is invited to attend.

Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School, 1951-1984” was recently installed at Merrill-Cazier Library. The exhibit displays works created by young Native American students during their time at Intermountain Indian School in Brigha...

Opening Feb. 5, "Looking Backward & Forward: Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next" will be a two-part exhibition celebrating the museum’s 40th anniversary.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has more than 5,000 objects in its collection — most of it American art, particularly from the West — but only room to show around 7% of them. That will change soon, thanks to a large grant f...

Gathering a group of fourth graders around her, Utah State University educator Shannon Erickson asked the youngsters if they knew what a fossil was. “It’s like when an ancient creature dies and sediment is left on top of them,” one child responded.

LOGAN, Utah — The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received $750,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the construction of a new Art Research and Education Center on the Logan campus.

After a pandemic hiatus, the Museum + Music concert series returns to the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) with “The Post-Modern Impulse,”...

One of the most immediately recognizable symbols of Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday for honoring and celebrating the dead, is the calavera — an ornate skull decorated with brightly colored flowers, animals and more. Calaveras take the form of anythi...

California-based artist Jean Lowe will visit Utah State University to discuss her work in the exhibition Your Place in the Multiverse: Jean Lowe currently on display at USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA).

Not every artist gets to see herself become the solo subject of a television documentary, let alone one that takes a retrospective look over her art and its critical reception by one of the nation’s best-known and most-cited journalist-critics.

Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) is excited to present Your Place in the Multiverse: Jean Lowe...

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University is pleased to present a trio of new exhibitions focused on the faces and landscapes of agriculture.

A new exhibition at Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA), Unmasking Creativity: Giving a Voice to Utah Youth, opens Saturday, Nov. 14, and features artistic expressions and written experiences by middle and high school studen...

Starting Tuesday, October 27, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University will be showcasing art and cultural objects in celebration of Día de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

The pandemic-inspired exhibition, The Day After Tomorrow: Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope, is currently on view at Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA)

A new art exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art focuses on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the community.

Like many organizations and businesses, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University had to get creative to stay connected with the public during this time of closures and a directive to “stay safe, stay home.”

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University tries to offer a community art day on the second Saturday of every month.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) is an academic art museum located on the campus of Utah State University. The museum is known for its outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art and serves a broad regional audience with its exhibi...

A former Utah State University artist-in-resident is bringing his creative work back to Logan as part of two new exhibitions at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.

Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) received the Award for Excellence for its Collecting on the Edge exhibit from the Utah Museums Association (UMA).

Staff at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art are working on new events and activities as a way to encourage the public to visit the recently...

Museum collection catalogs provide one entrée into a museum’s collections and serve as a resource to highlight important works; they also serve to entice readers to visit the museum to experience art firsthand.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University is presenting Part II of Collecting on the Edge, a ground-breaking exhibition on view Jan. 17-May 4, showcasing its exceptional collection that focuses on the history of art west of t...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University was founded in 1982 and housed in a building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.

The newly expanded Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture (SMA) opened in September 2018 at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah.

There is a new memorial honoring veterans at Utah State University. A dedication ceremony for the memorial was held Monday in front of the Military Science Building on campus.

The newly expanded Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture (SMA) opened in September 2018 at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah.

The newly expanded Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture (SMA) opened in September 2018 at Utah State University (USU) in Logan, Utah.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is participating in a statewide survey to find out how community members are...

"With perceptions of the American West, when you talk about art, I think people go to thinking about men on horses, or Native Americans and white men, those kinds of images," said Katie Lee-Koven, the executive director of Utah State University’s Nora Ecc...

Landmark shows of 19th-century French painting kick off an exciting season jammed with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities: the Met's completist retrospective of Eugene Delacroix, complemented by a significant show of his drawings, brings tigers, shipwrecks ...

Today, as a part of Utah State University’s Year of the Arts, we’ll focus on the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, which is looking forward to its grand reopening Saturday, September 15th.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is hosting the Collecting on the Edge exhibit.

After more than a year of renovation and expansion, the museum at Utah State University reopens with a show from its collection of work created in the American West by 172 modern and contemporary artists, including Ruth Asawa and Jim Melchert.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) is presenting Collecting on the Edge, a ground-breaking, two-part exhibition showcasing its exceptional collection that focuses on the history of art west of the Mississippi Riv...

The Nora Eccles Harrison museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) is presenting "Collecting on the Edge", a groundbreaking, two-part exhibition showcasing its exceptional collection that focuses on the history of art west of the Mississippi Ri...

The Nora Eccles Harrison museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) is presenting "Collecting on the Edge", a groundbreaking, two-part exhibition showcasing its exceptional collection that focuses on the history of art west of the Mississippi Ri...

Masterpiece London, Deloitte, Herman Historica, Crawford Museum Cork. Art Advisor, Art Galleries, New Artists

George Wanlass’s family tree is an impressive one, connecting him to some historical Cache Valley figures and arts benefactors whose names can…

Today, as a part of Utah State University’s Year of the Arts, we’ll focus on the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, which is looking forward to a grand re-opening in September after renovation and expansion.

Arie French, a student at Utah State University, chose to make a stencil portrait of Maya Angelou at Friday’s “Work in Progress” workshop in the Merrill-Cazier Library.

USU student Sydney Lowe sat in the Merrill-Cazier Library on Thursday using a craft knife to make a stencil portrait of a woman she admired. “It was kind of a challenge for me,” said Lowe...

When Ridgeline High freshman Katelyn Cornell asked her grandfather to stop idling his car, he listened. Ed Stafford, USU marketing professor, calls this the “inconvenient youth effect” and is exactly what he hoped for three years ago when he launched the ...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University will be closed for the next year and a half to undergo a $5 million renovation and expansion.

The headlining fall exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art features a subject that rings true to the museum’s origins.

Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) continues its “2016-17 Museum and Music” series with “Keeping Tradition: Hindustani Classical Music,” featuring Nagaraj Rao Havaldar, Thursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., in the museum on the USU Lo...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art will host the opening reception for its new exhibit, “Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West” tonight at 8 p.m. The reception will include a gallery talk with Mathew Limb, guest curator and Windga...

The exhibition “Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West” is on display at Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University.

According to Utah State University student Joseph Pesina, art can be anything you want it to be — and sometimes it requires you to get your hands dirty.

The students' work on the exhibit is part of a special Honors Think Tank course...

You see them all over campus, but find out what these sculptures are doing here at Utah State.

A museum in Northern Utah is hosting a symposium for its current exhibition on ‘kitsch’, which is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts”.

A Matter of Taste, an exhibition exploring the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and popular culture opens at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University, January 23 - May 7, 2016.

Why is it so.....that there are more, and more considered exhibitions of Aboriginal art currently on in America than here in Australia?

Utah State University’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) presents “Vision and Persistence: 30 Years of Ceramic Excellence,” a survey of more than 50 works created by artists who graduated or taught in the university’s ceramics program...

When Rebecca Dunham was growing up, she was fascinated by the Pompeii exhibit that came to her hometown museum in Houston.

Kitsch is a difficult thing to define — like the line between fine art and lowbrow. Grasping the concept completely is not mandatory to enjoy the “A Matter of Taste: Art, Kitsch and Culture” exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State ...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word ‘kitsch’ as “Pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts.” Logan’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art has devoted a new exhibition to Kitsch and the evolution of its perception in the context of contempo...

“Kitsch” is the key word at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s new exhibit, which opened to the public on Jan. 23.

A MATTER OF TASTE, an exhibition exploring the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and popular culture opens at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University, today, January 23, through May 7, 2016.

A Matter of Taste, an exhibition exploring the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and popular culture opens at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University, January 23 - May 7, 2016.

Rebecca A. Dunham has been appointed the new Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University, effective October 2015...

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University in Logan Utah, will present a symposium titled "Then and Now: Australian Aboriginal Painting of the Western Desert (1971-Present)" on Monday, November 16, 2015.

It's a common trope, the artist who tells you they began their career at an early age, attracting the accolade of adults when they were still preschoolers, or executing their first masterpiece on the dining room wall, to the—slightly proud—dismay of their...

Abstraction and symbolism, NEH Museum of Art stages a riveting cross-cultural dialogue

The newest art exhibit is on display at the Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum. “Abstraction and the Dreaming: Aboriginal Paintings from Australia’s West Desert,” is now open for Utah State University students and the public to experience.

Two exhibitions showcasing Aboriginal art are opening in the United States this week, both, drawn exclusively from the private holdings of a handful of American collectors.

Tjukurrpa, or “the dreaming,” a belief that land and human laws were formed by ancestors, serves as the guiding principle for paintings by Aboriginal artists.

Two complementary exhibitions featuring artists from the Australian Western Desert and the American West are opening in September at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University.

Here we have two abstract art exhibitions from two different centuries and two different continents. Surprisingly – or not – they’ve got a lot in common.

Two complementary exhibitions exploring abstraction and symbolism in 20th and 21st century artistic practices from very different areas of the world—the Australian Western Desert and the American West—open at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA)...