Past Exhibitions

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.

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.

January 27 – July 20, 2024

Women's Work showcases works of art created by female artists that have recently entered the NEHMA collection.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

September 14 - December 14, 2019

In a remote region of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, a classified military site called Dugway Proving Ground remains largely hidden from public view, closed to civilians and rarely seen in the media.

September 14, 2019 - August 1, 2020

Sky Above, Earth Below traces the development of western landscape photography from the late 19th century to the 21st century will start with early American photographers like Myra Albert Wiggins, Edward Curtis...

August 24, 2019 - April 4, 2020

Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s Haiga Portfolio, 1966-1967, is an example of the artist’s most pronounced blending of Eastern and Western influences.

August 24, 2019 - August 1, 2020

Traditionally, identity is formulated via a process of exclusion. It is not about who you are; it is about who you are not. Latinx proposes inclusivity as the point of departure, open to fluid and diverse factors ...

September 15, 2018 - July 31, 2019

Modern and contemporary art created in the American West, manifesting an independent spirit and embodying unique ideas, has been largely written out of the mainstream narrative of art history or placed in unhe...

September 15, 2018 - July 31, 2019

Modern and contemporary art created in the American West, manifesting an independent spirit and embodying unique ideas, has been largely written out of the mainstream narrative of art history or placed in unhe...

January 16 - March 29, 2018

The Work in Progress is a collage-style mural that provides a stunning visualization of the impact of women on our society. It is a community project and the brainchild of Jann Haworth.

August 17 - December 10, 2016

Drawing upon NEHMA’s important collection of twentieth century ceramic objects, Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in the American West examines the significant contributions of potters who taught in universities ...

June 1 - December 10, 2016

Recent Additions to the NEHMA Collection showcases a select group of artworks the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) has acquired for its collection in 2015 and 2016.

March 15 - May 7, 2016

Growing West is organized by students from the USU Honors Think Tank course and visually recounts the historical narrative that drove Americans and European immigrants to settle the American West as homesteaders and farmers...

February 2 - March 2, 2016

Vision and Persistence is a survey of works created by forty-nine artists who graduated from the ceramics program in the Department of Art and Design at Utah State University over the last 30 years.

January 23 - May 7, 2016

A Matter of Taste explores the complex relationship between art, kitsch, and culture. While a gift shop may seem the more likely place to find kitsch in a museum, A Matter of Taste turns this expectation upside down.

September 23, 2015 - December 10, 2016

Over the last century the American West has provided fertile ground for an extraordinary range of creative response and expression by both the indigenous and non-indigenous people who inhabit it.

September 23, 2015 - December 10, 2016

Over the last century the American West has provided fertile ground for an extraordinary range of creative response and expression by both the indigenous and non-indigenous people who inhabit it.

September 12 - December 12, 2015

The Western Desert of Australia is a vast region that is home to Aboriginal people from various language and cultural groups. They share a common world view based on Tjukurrpa, or the Dreaming.

June 9 - July 23, 2015

ReImagine ArtsySTEM presents works from the NEHMA permanent collection that build upon the theme of individual responses to the environment as presented in the other exhibition, ARTsySTEM: The Changing Climates of the Arts ...

March 19 - August 1, 2015

The Arts and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) share a necessity for undertaking imaginative inquiry of what we perceive as truth and beauty.

March 19 - August 1, 2015

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, a librarian and a postman of modest means, began acquiring works by contemporary artists in the 1960s. Over the next forty years the couple amassed a vast, diverse collection of contemporary ar...

January 23 - April 18, 2015

Including over 60 three-dimensional objects from the Arizona State University Art Museum's permanent collection and recent acquisitions, as well as works by many of the major and emerging figures in contemporary crafts...

September 25, 2014 - February 28, 2015

Featuring a selection of works by Black Mountain College (BMC) faculty and students, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design explores the role and influence of the college on the fields of studio craf...

September 25, 2014 - February 28, 2015

Featuring a selection of works by Black Mountain College (BMC) faculty and students, Black Mountain College: Shaping Craft + Design explores the role and influence of the college on the fields of studio craf...

April 14 - December 10, 2014

With artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection and works on loan from a number of museums and private collectors, this exhibition explores the role of the American West as a site for rebirth and enchantment...

January 23 - March 14, 2014

Nobody Goes Home Sad includes historical photographs by Walter Lehrman and John Suiter showing intimate portraits of trailblazing poets and authors from the Beat generation of the 1950s.

July 1, 2013 - March 14, 2014

A selection of artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection embraces a diverse range of forms and showcases work by important women artists.

March 18, 2013 - January 31, 2014

Located in the Study Center drawers, this exhibition is composed of work by Harrison Groutage, Everett Thorpe, and Gaell Lindstrom. On February 5 of 2013, Harrison Groutage passed away at age 87 of kidney failure...

August 28, 2012 - March 14, 2014

Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter.

July 1, 2013 - March 14, 2014

A selection of artworks from the NEHMA permanent collection embraces a diverse range of forms and showcases work by important women artists.

June 21 - December 10, 2013

Nine works of art are displayed in the upper gallery from a 2013 donation to the art museum by the late Joe Austin. These artworks are avante garde pieces from the 1970s and 1980s by artists working in the Los Angeles ...

March 18, 2013 - January 31, 2014

Located in the Study Center drawers, this exhibition is composed of work by Harrison Groutage, Everett Thorpe, and Gaell Lindstrom. On February 5 of 2013, Harrison Groutage passed away at age 87 of kidney failure...

February 1 - May 4, 2013

Northern Utah-based photographer, Chris Dunker presents 21 selections of his work in the exhibition Industrial Ethos. These photographs address the culture of industry and how industry appears over time.

January 22 - May 4, 2013

USU students in the Fall 2012 course, Art History 5730: The Art Museum were offered the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with the curator of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art to explore the meanings of Conce...

August 28, 2012 - March 14, 2014

Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter.

August 30 - December 10, 2012

Shown in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Jack London Society Symposium held in Logan, Utah and co-sponsored by the USU Department of English and the USU Special Collections Department in the Merrill - Cazier Libra...

August 28, 2012 - March 14, 2014

Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter.

January 16 - June 11, 2012

Jim Starrett is an L.A.-based artist who explores concepts of religion, heritage, and the clash of differing historical interpretations.

June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012

Art and comics have a complex relationship. This exhibition explores that relationship by featuring the intersection of comics and art with specific attention on how certain themes and stylistic forms have crossed ov...

June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012

In order to highlight a selection of the museum's recently acquired artwork, a new exhibition was made available in the summer of 2011 named New Acquisitions featuring 6 new artworks in the west gallery marking their...

June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012

Art and comics have a complex relationship. This exhibition explores that relationship by featuring the intersection of comics and art with specific attention on how certain themes and stylistic forms have crossed ov...

June 14, 2011 - July 28, 2012

In order to highlight a selection of the museum's recently acquired artwork, a new exhibition was made available in the summer of 2011 named New Acquisitions featuring 6 new artworks in the west gallery marking their...

January 16 - May 10, 2011

As a celebration of this distinctive feature on USU campus, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art presents an exhibition about this sculpture; its history, innovation, construction, and creation.

August 31, 2010 - May 9, 2011

Whether they are radical or practical ideas, many artists have envisioned alternative ways of living. EcoVisionaries includes socially engaged artists (the Harrisons and Ant Farm)...

August 31, 2010 - January 11, 2011

The photos in this exhibition are part of USU professor Christopher M. Gauthiér’s series, Evidence and Artifacts: Particle Matter 2.5 which explores the air quality in Cache Valley.

January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011

Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?

August 31, 2010 - May 9, 2011

Whether they are radical or practical ideas, many artists have envisioned alternative ways of living. EcoVisionaries includes socially engaged artists (the Harrisons and Ant Farm)...

August 31, 2010 - January 11, 2011

The photos in this exhibition are part of USU professor Christopher M. Gauthiér’s series, Evidence and Artifacts: Particle Matter 2.5 which explores the air quality in Cache Valley.

July 1, 2009 - August 30, 2010

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received a major gift of 31 new works from the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011

Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?

July 1, 2009 - August 30, 2010

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received a major gift of 31 new works from the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

March 23 - April 25, 2009

The USU Department of Art Project Gallery, a newly named gallery space in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, presents a new art exhibition featuring work by seven distinguished alumni from Utah State University.

September 15, 2008 - March 1, 2009

Women's Work features the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.

January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011

Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?

September 15, 2008 - March 1, 2009

Women's Work features the work of contemporary women printmakers from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation.

September 1 - September 30, 2008

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art continues to display the exciting, electronic, musical installation, Klompen which it acquired last year through generous support from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

March 25 - May 10, 2008

Richard Buswell's work displayed in this exhibition contains photographs of hidden Montana ghost towns and isolated sites of early western settlement.

February 5 - June 28, 2008

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 such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Pa...

January 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011

Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. But what makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship, or is it context?

November 1, 2007 - May 3, 2008

A selection of curated artwork from the permanent collection focuses on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s called the Transcendental Painting Group.

September 1, 2005 - July 30, 2008

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 20th century.

November 1, 2007 - May 3, 2008

A selection of curated artwork from the permanent collection focuses on painters working in New Mexico in the 1930s called the Transcendental Painting Group.

September 1, 2005 - July 30, 2008

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 20th century.

January 10 - March 15, 2006

Organized by writers and independent curators Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna along with the Santa Monica Museum of Art, this exhibition offers an extraordinary snapshot of the post-war arts underground in Southern...

October 25, 2005 - June 29, 2006

Ms. Webster sculpts living things that come from the sea to make strong statements about nature and the environment.

September 1, 2005 - July 30, 2008

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 20th century.