Past Exhibitions

Past exhibitions hosted by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, listed by year.

2026
Read Story Jim Mangan: The Crick February 21, 2026 - July 25, 2026 The Crick is a meditation on religious succession, patriarchal systems, zealotry and fraternity in the life built by these young men. Mangan’s pictures transport the reader into an alternate reality of the boys’ ... Read Story Meet the Fletchers February 21 – July 25, 2026 In 1907 Utah State University, then Utah State Agricultural College, hired a recent BYU graduate Calvin Fletcher as the first Art faculty member and first head of the college’s art department.
2025
Read Story March 1, 2025 Holding Space: Highlights from the NEHMA Ceramics Collection March 1, 2025 - July 12, 2025 Holding Space highlights historical and contemporary ceramic works that reveal the vessel as form and metaphor. The exhibition includes works by USU’s John Neely, who made innovations into wood firing, atmospheric fi... Read Story January 25, 2025 Repainting the I: The Intermountain Intertribal Indian School Murals January 25, 2025 - January 17, 2026 Intermountain Intertribal Indian School was the largest boarding school for Native Americans in the United States. Intermountain was a place completely adorned in student artwork and was an environment that qui... Read Story August 24, 2024 Artepaño: Chicano Prisoner Kerchief Art August 24, 2024 - February 1, 2025 The Artepaño: Chicano Prisoner Kerchief Art exhibition features seventy-one artworks by Latinx artists working in the context of the American penal system. A paño is a standard 15x15-inch cotton handkerchief tra... Read Story July 20, 2024 Los Angeles Hard Edge July 20, 2024 - December 14, 2024 Los Angeles Hard Edge from the Collection places the exhibition, June Harwood Paintings, into a broader context. The artists in this exhibition, as well as June Harwood, participated in the exhibition California ... Read Story July 18, 2024 San Francisco the Golden Age 1930-1960: Making a Scene June 18, 2024 - July 12, 2025 NEHMA’s collection, with its focus on the art of the western United States, is ideally suited to provide in-depth examples of art from this little-known period in art history. Read Story Eagle Village: Sheila Nadimi January 24, 2025 - January 17, 2026 Sheila Nadimi first set out in 1996 to photograph what was left of the Intermountain Indian School. Read Story Exploding Native Inevitable August 20, 2025 - November 29, 2025 + an exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from the land we now call America + Read Story INTO LIGHT: Faces of Drug Addiction; Real People, Real Stories from Utah August 20 – November 29, 2025 The INTO LIGHT Project is a powerful initiative dedicated to shedding light on the realities of addiction and mental health through personal storytelling and artistic expression. Read Story Jim Mangan: The Crick February 21, 2026 - July 25, 2026 The Crick is a meditation on religious succession, patriarchal systems, zealotry and fraternity in the life built by these young men. Mangan’s pictures transport the reader into an alternate reality of the boys’ ...
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Read Story August 24, 2024 Artepaño: Chicano Prisoner Kerchief Art August 24, 2024 - February 1, 2025 The Artepaño: Chicano Prisoner Kerchief Art exhibition features seventy-one artworks by Latinx artists working in the context of the American penal system. A paño is a standard 15x15-inch cotton handkerchief tra... Read Story August 24, 2024 June Harwood Paintings August 24 - December 14, 2024 June Harwood refined a style of abstraction and compositional rigor that she had started developing around 1960. This style eventually became known as “Hard-Edge,” a term coined in 1959 by critic and curator Jules La... Read Story July 20, 2024 Los Angeles Hard Edge July 20, 2024 - December 14, 2024 Los Angeles Hard Edge from the Collection places the exhibition, June Harwood Paintings, into a broader context. The artists in this exhibition, as well as June Harwood, participated in the exhibition California ... Read Story July 18, 2024 San Francisco the Golden Age 1930-1960: Making a Scene June 18, 2024 - July 12, 2025 NEHMA’s collection, with its focus on the art of the western United States, is ideally suited to provide in-depth examples of art from this little-known period in art history. Read Story February 8, 2024 Jane Catlin: A Retrospective February 8 - July 20, 2024 This retrospective is a way of honoring Jane Catlin’s career as an artist and teacher which has lasted more than forty years. Read Story January 27, 2024 Perception and Abstraction January 27 – June 15, 2024 Perhaps the most important collectors of contemporary art in Logan, Utah, David and Terry Peak have been collecting since 1996. Read Story January 27, 2024 Women's Work: New Additions to the NEHMA Collection January 27 – July 20, 2024 Women's Work showcases works of art created by female artists that have recently entered the NEHMA collection. Read Story August 30, 2022 Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It August 30, 2022 - April 22, 2024 An exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics.
2023
Read Story July 8, 2023 Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire and the End of Nature in the New West July 8 - December 13, 2023 Facing Fire features work by twelve artists who bring us photographs, paintings, ceramics and video as they face fire in the West, sift its aftermath and struggle with the implications. Read Story January 28, 2023 The Squares and the Beats: The Lane Gift January 28 - May 6, 2023 The exhibition The Squares and the Beats: The Lane Gift 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 G... Read Story August 30, 2022 Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It August 30, 2022 - April 22, 2024 An exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics. Read Story February 5, 2022 Looking Backward & Forward: Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next February 5, 2022 - May 6, 2023 The focus of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection in on twentieth and twenty-first century art of the western United States. It consists of over 5,500 objects with large concentrations of paintings, scu...
2022
Read Story August 30, 2022 Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It August 30, 2022 - April 22, 2024 An exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics. Read Story May 2, 2022 ARTH 3295: USU Student Online Exhibitions May 2 - August 20, 2022 In the spring semester of 2022, students enrolled in ARTH 3295 at Utah State University were tasked with curating their own virtual exhibitions. ARTH 3295 is an art history course on the art of Americans of Latin American ... Read Story April 22, 2022 Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power April 22 - December 17, 2022 Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power is a survey of works from Rebecca Campbell’s prodigious output over the past fifteen years, focusing on the agency she gives the young and adult women in her paintings. Read Story March 22, 2022 Bibhu Mohapatra March 22 - April 2, 2022 Bibhu Mohapatra grew up in Odisha on the east coast of India and moved to the United States in 1996. His years growing up in Odisha formed the expanding spirit of everything he sees and creates. Read Story February 5, 2022 Looking Backward & Forward: Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next February 5, 2022 - May 6, 2023 The focus of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection in on twentieth and twenty-first century art of the western United States. It consists of over 5,500 objects with large concentrations of paintings, scu... Read Story January 29, 2022 The Driek & Michael Zirinsky Gift January 29 - July 9, 2022 In 2020, collectors Driek and Michael Zirinsky gifted 19 works of contemporary art to the NEHMA collection. The Zirinskys, who began collecting more than 40 years ago while in graduate school, and are among the most impo... Read Story January 4, 2022 Forty-Three Teapots and One Mug January 4 - May 7, 2022 In thinking about choosing items from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum collection for this case, I mused on the most exciting museum experiences I have had. Read Story October 20, 2020 Hand-built October 20, 2020 - March 1, 2022 Hand-built showcases works made partially or entirely off of the potter’s wheel. Often, when thinking of ceramic art and craft, the first thing that comes to mind is pottery: functional wheel-thrown vessels. Read Story August 25, 2020 Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction August 25, 2020 - July 9, 2022 Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art histor... Read Story April 1, 2020 USU Sculpture Walk April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Created in 2011, the USU Sculpture Walk showcases the 46 public sculptures across Utah State University's campus. Start at the Museum and enjoy the mix of traditional and modern sculptures while you stroll, power wal... Read Story April 1, 2020 Virtual Tours of NEHMA April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Are you staying at home but wishing you could visit the Museum? Wander through NEHMA online! Click the links below to virtually enter current and past exhibitions.
2021
Read Story June 19, 2021 Your Place in the Multiverse June 19 - December 12, 2021 American artist Jean Lowe’s (b. 1960) work revolves around the intersection of popular culture, environmentalism, commerce, politics, and art history. Read Story January 28, 2021 American Farmer January 28 - May 8, 2021 American Farmer celebrates the living spirit of our heartland through the faces and voices of the people who keep it alive. Read Story January 28, 2021 Barns, Cows, Tractors, Horses, Hay & Farmers January 28 - May 8, 2021 While not traditionally thought of as subjects for art, farming and agricultural scenes can portray an intriguing story about nature and humanity. Celebrating agriculture through art, Barns, Cows, Tractors, Horses, Hay, a... Read Story January 28, 2021 Three Depression-Era Photographers in Utah January 28 - May 8, 2021 Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein are the three photographers who were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document rural Utah in the late 1930s. Read Story December 18, 2020 Junior Curators: "Look for the Good" Virtual Exhibitions by Spring Creek Middle School Students December 18, 2020 - February 26, 2021 NEHMA has adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. This online experience can accommodate in-school or at-home learning. Read Story October 20, 2020 Hand-built October 20, 2020 - March 1, 2022 Hand-built showcases works made partially or entirely off of the potter’s wheel. Often, when thinking of ceramic art and craft, the first thing that comes to mind is pottery: functional wheel-thrown vessels. Read Story August 25, 2020 African American Art, Social Justice and Identity; Works by Black Artists from the NEHMA Collection August 25, 2020 - December 4, 2021 African American Art, Social Justice and Identity addresses Black identity in the United States through works of art by ten African American artists and ephemera from collectives including the Black Panthers, sp... Read Story August 25, 2020 Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction August 25, 2020 - July 9, 2022 Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art histor... Read Story April 1, 2020 USU Sculpture Walk April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Created in 2011, the USU Sculpture Walk showcases the 46 public sculptures across Utah State University's campus. Start at the Museum and enjoy the mix of traditional and modern sculptures while you stroll, power wal... Read Story April 1, 2020 Virtual Tours of NEHMA April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Are you staying at home but wishing you could visit the Museum? Wander through NEHMA online! Click the links below to virtually enter current and past exhibitions.
2020
Read Story December 18, 2020 Junior Curators: "Look for the Good" Virtual Exhibitions by Spring Creek Middle School Students December 18, 2020 - February 26, 2021 NEHMA has adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. This online experience can accommodate in-school or at-home learning. Read Story November 14, 2020 Unmasking Creativity: Giving a Voice to Utah Youth November 14 - December 19, 2020 Unmasking Creativity features artistic expressions and written experiences by middle and high school students in response to the current pandemic. Read Story October 20, 2020 Hand-built October 20, 2020 - March 1, 2022 Hand-built showcases works made partially or entirely off of the potter’s wheel. Often, when thinking of ceramic art and craft, the first thing that comes to mind is pottery: functional wheel-thrown vessels. Read Story August 25, 2020 African American Art, Social Justice and Identity; Works by Black Artists from the NEHMA Collection August 25, 2020 - December 4, 2021 African American Art, Social Justice and Identity addresses Black identity in the United States through works of art by ten African American artists and ephemera from collectives including the Black Panthers, sp... Read Story August 25, 2020 Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction August 25, 2020 - July 9, 2022 Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art histor... Read Story July 1, 2020 The Day After Tomorrow: Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope July 1 - December 19, 2020 Our new reality is profoundly different than it was six months ago. The 2020 pandemic, COVID-19, has swept the world, and in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we have seen unprecedented civil unrest calling for racial ... Read Story May 20, 2020 Junior Curators: "Stand For Something" May 20 - July 31, 2020 Due to school closures related to COVID-19, NEHMA adapted the Junior Curators program into an online experience. Despite not being able to visit NEHMA in person, students can learn about curation and find inspiration from t... Read Story April 20, 2020 FCSE 3040 - Patternmaking April 20 - June 30, 2020 During Spring 2020 Semester, FCSE 3040 Advanced Clothing Studies: Patternmaking students at Utah State University were challenged to create a half-scale fashion inspired by artwork on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Muse... Read Story April 17, 2020 Chris Terry, On Sabbatical April 17 - June 21, 2020 Artist and professor Chris Terry has lived, worked and taught at Utah State University for 31 years. Chris Terry, On Sabbatical features work that he created during four sabbaticals (1994–95, 2000–01, 2008–09, 2017–18) th... Read Story April 1, 2020 USU Sculpture Walk April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Created in 2011, the USU Sculpture Walk showcases the 46 public sculptures across Utah State University's campus. Start at the Museum and enjoy the mix of traditional and modern sculptures while you stroll, power wal... Read Story April 1, 2020 Virtual Tours of NEHMA April 1, 2020 - April 1, 2022 Are you staying at home but wishing you could visit the Museum? Wander through NEHMA online! Click the links below to virtually enter current and past exhibitions. Read Story January 25, 2020 Particle & Wave: Paperclay Illuminated January 25 - May 2, 2020 Particle & Wave: Paperclay Illuminated features forty-five artists from across the world who incorporate paper pulp and organic fibers into their clay. Read Story January 25, 2020 Thomas Campbell: Lint basket supremeo + Unii ciøn yyikæ January 25 - May 2, 2020 Thomas Campbell (born 1969) is a media maestro who parlays his ideas, thoughts, and feelings about the fringes of contemporary American culture into eloquent and romantic narratives. Read Story December 16, 2019 ARTH 3320 - The Art of Latin America December 16, 2019 - July 31, 2020 In the fall semester of 2019, students enrolled in ARTH 3320 at Utah State University were tasked with curating their own virtual exhibitions. ARTH 3320 is an art history course on the art of Latin America. Read Story November 21, 2019 Heart Beats November 21, 2019 - February 1, 2020 On November 21 at 7 PM visiting Beat artist and poet Gerd Stern will speak for approximately 20 minutes at the opening reception.
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