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Annual Report 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 – 2017 2016 – 2017 TABLE OF ANNUAL CONTENTS REPORT 3 The Year in Numbers 4 Exhibitions & Events 9 Teaching with Art Highlights of Academic Use Academic Collaborations Class Visits K-12 & Community Involvement 14 Collection Acquisitions Loans Deaccessions Publications/Research Digitization & Collection Management 21 Financial Report 22 Facility Improvements Expansion/Renovation Update 24 People Staff Advisory Board Interns Volunteers Top: Laura Andreson, Vase, 1970, Porcelain, 7.75 x 7.625 inches, Museum permanent collection. Bottom: Laura 27 In the Works Andreson, Bowl, 1982, Porcelain, 3 x 8.5 x 21 inches, Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation. Over 11 ISITS wer welc and/or received educational programming. 34 USU CUSES/GRUS 23 STUENTS as a learning resource through exhibition-related tours, class meetings, research projects, curatorial opportunities and programming. 12 FACUTY COLLABORATINS curated exhibitions and study center displays, developed research projects for students, led programming in support of student learning, or collaborated on workshops. 127 K12 STUENTS ECEIE IECTE CUSTMIE EUCTIN outreach and programming, including 1 EEMENTARY MIE N I SC CSSES 134 ATTENEES ARTICIATE IN 23 NEM UIC MSEENTS These included the Museum + Music Series, Family Art Days, After Hours @ NEHMA, Film Screenings in partnership with Utah Film Center, lectures, gallery tours, symposia and opening receptions. 28 K12 TECES attended the NEHMA-led StateWide Art Partnership (SWAP) professional development workshop that included an evening of educational 27 programming/lesson plans to utilize in their classrooms. CMMUNITY GRUS (2,043 individuals) ACUISITINS ART participated in tours/programs, 34 through gifts and purchases. ranging from the Boy Scouts, to Cache Employment & Training in addition to other civic and ARTS wer ’ church organizations. 9 online Collection page as a feature of NEHMA’s new collection management software. 1 LONS of artworks were made to other institutions. These numbers are different from a typical year as a result of the Museum temporarily THE YEAR IN closing in December 2016 for construction. NUMBERS EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Thomas Akawie, Frauenkirche 2, 1967, polymer acrylic on masonite, 60.75 x 55.75 x 2.75 in. Gift of the artist and the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation. 4 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Howard Kottler, Royal Paisley Pot, 1973, Porcelain with decals, Museum perma- EXHIBITIONS nent collection. Transcendence: Abstraction and nation or purchase. Today, the collection includes Symbolism in the American West more than 5,000 objects that illustrate the devel- opment of modern and contemporary art in the September 1, 2015 – December 10, 2016 Western U.S. from 1920 through present day. Showcasing NEHMA’s important collection of art Lighting the Fire: Ceramics from the American West after World War I through Education in the American West the present day, Transcendence: Abstraction and Symbolism in the American West featured more August 17 – December 10, 2016 than 60 works by artists spanning painting, pho- tography, sculpture, works on paper, pottery and Drawing upon NEHMA’s collection of twentieth mixed media. The exhibition surveyed both Amer- century ceramic objects, Lighting the Fire exam- ican Indian and non-native artists who employ ined the contributions of 23 potters who taught abstraction and symbolism to convey their expe- at universities and studios in the American West. riences and interpretations of the American West. Through their teaching philosophies, these inno- The exhibition explored how these artists utilize vative educators inspired generations of students these conceptual processes to convey responses to push the boundaries of ceramics. The works on to place, spirituality and cultural identity. display also illustrated how they positioned clay as a fine art medium. Recent Additions to the NEHMA Collection Lighting the Fire was guest curated by Matthew June 1 – December 10, 2016 Limb, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Limb came to NEHMA as a recip- Recent Additions featured a select group of art- ient of a 2016 Windgate Museum Internship, a works NEHMA acquired for its collection through- prestigious internship awarded through The Center out 2015 and 2016. Since the Museum’s founding for Craft, Creativity, & Design (CCCD). During in 1982, it has annually added between 50 and his four-month tenure at the Museum, Limb re- 250 artworks to its collection either through do- searched NEHMA’s renowned ceramics collection. EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 5 Keeping Tradition: PUBLIC Hindustani Classical Music PROGRAMS October 2016 This concert featured internationally respected MUSEUM + MUSIC Indian vocalist Dr. Nagaraj Rao Havaldar, accompanied by tabla (drums) and harmonium All events are free & open to the public. (organ). Artworks from the Museum’s collection on view for consideration featured works by The Museum + Music series is guest curated by John Mason, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Lobdell, Associate Professor of Music Christopher Scheer Emerson Woelffer, and Sonia Gechtoff. with the intention of making connections between the visual and aural. Each concert is completely Manifest Destiny: Yesterday, different, featuring everything from string quartets Today, and Tomorrow to hip hop artists. The program is supported by the Caine College of the Arts Visiting Artists and December 2016 Scholars Series, underwritten by the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation – Russell Family, the Tanner USU Music Department students presented a varied Charitable Trust and the differential tuition provid- concert that explored the concept of “Manifest ed by the students of the college. Destiny” through art from NEHMA’s collection paired with music selections. This was a multi- faceted approach to exploring a problematic NEHMA Galleries: concept at the heart of western American identity. Exploring “Process” Featuring Caine Performance Hall: the PEN Trio September 2016 Progenitors of the New Age: Mysticism and California Art This performance explored the concept of “pro- March 2016 cess,” be it composition of a musical or visual work, as a seminal focus of Western American This concert explored, both visually and aurally, the Modern and Contemporary artistic practice. The influences of Zen Buddhism and Alchemy in 20th award-winning PEN Trio offered a diverse concert century West Coast American culture. Repertoire of repertoire in the Museum’s Marie Eccles Caine included the Utah premiere of California composer gallery, consisting of recently commissioned works Byron Adams’s Variationes alchemisticae for flute, by West Coast composers, and standard repertoire viola, cello and piano, as well as works by Toru for their ensemble. Takemitsu and Maurice Durufle performed by mem- bers of the Utah Symphony Brant Bayless, Caitlyn 6 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Valovick Moore, and Jason Hardink, as well as USU This concert focused on movements in art and mu- faculty Anne Francis Bayless and Chilali Hugo. sic that contribute to the reputation of California Artworks featured from NEHMA’s collection were as a locus for those marginalized by postwar Amer- Jess, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Emile ican culture. The wildly creative and often offen- Bisttram and Terry Fox. sive music of Frank Zappa was featured alongside the works of the 18th century Italian composer Zappa and Zappa: Counterculture Francisco Zappa. Accompanying this musical se- California in the 1960s lection were artworks from NEHMA’s collection by Wally Hedrick, Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, Jess, April 2017 and George Herms. Museum + Music concert, “Keeping Tradition: Hindustani Classical Music,” October 2016. EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS 7 AFTER HOURS @ NEHMA FILM SCREENINGS NEHMA stays open until 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month during the semes- ter and features music, art activities, film Craft in America: Teachers screenings, gallery talks and more. Some- thing new is offered every month. Free & October 2016 open to all ages and abilities. Co-sponsored by the USU Ceramics Guild The Museum hosted After Hours while open The Invisible War in the fall on October 6, November 3, and November 2016 December 1, 2016. Co-sponsored by the USU Center for Women & Gender Perspectives Club GALLERY TALK WITH GUEST CURATOR MATTHEW LIMB Between Earth and Sky September 2016 April 2017 In celebration of Earth Day, this screening was Lighting the Fire: Ceramics Education in co-sponsored by the Office of Global Engage- the West exhibition ment; the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; the Quinney College of Natural Resources; the YOGA @ NEHMA Ecology Center; the Utah Climate Center; and the Fall 2016 Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate at Utah State University. Screening took place at In partnership with the Eccles Conference Center. USU Employee Wellness, 27 Yoga classes were offered to faculty and staff in the Museum. 8 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 TEACHING WITH ART HIGHLIGHTS OF concepts of serialism, a systematic way of creat- ing non-tonal pitch relationships; this accompanied ACADEMIC USE: an assignment. Associate Professor USU RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS Christopher Scheer MUSC 3190 — Assistant Professor Music History III Marissa Vigneault Students selected artworks on the theme of ARTH 3750 — “manifest destiny,” then they selected comple- High Modernism to Post-Modernism: mentary music on the same theme; performance 1945-1989 featured select pairings Workshop on writing #FromtheNEHMAVault
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