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. 11 ISIT S and/or received educational programming.
. 34 USU C U SES U S 2 3 STU ENTS as a learning resource through exhibition-related tours, class meetings, research projects, curatorial opportunities and programming.
12 CU TY C TI NS curated exhibitions and study center displays, developed research projects for students, led programming in support of student learning, or collaborated on workshops.
1 27 12 STU ENTS ECEI E I ECTE CUST MI E E UC TI N outreach and programming,
including 1 E EMENT Y MI E N I SC C SSES
1 34 TTEN EES TICI TE IN 23 NE M U IC MS E ENTS 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 12 TE C E S 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. C MMUNITY U S (2,043 individuals) C UISITI NS T participated in tours/programs, 34 through gifts and purchases. ranging from the Boy Scouts, to Cache Employment & Training in addition to other civic and T S church organizations. 9 online Collection page as a feature of NEHMA’s new collection management software.
1 NS 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 series post and tour Instructor Antra Sinha ART 2650 — Professor Joyce Kinkead Introductory Ceramics Tour of “Lighting the Fire” exhibition, selected ENGL 6350 — American Literature and Culture objects to use as inspiration for a hand-building A graduate seminar focused on the American farm. class project For the “Teach This Poem” assignment, selected works of art were chosen to complement a poem USU CLASS-CURATED focused on farms. EXHIBITIONS & OBJECT DISPLAYS W/ ASSIGNMENTS Assistant Professor Sara Bakker Assistant Professor Carsten Meier MUSC 2110 — Music Theory III ART 4825 — Class used selection of artworks to explore the Color Photography
TEACHING WITH ART 9 Seo Eo, Index, 2014, Talc and nails on canvas, each panel 12 x 12 x .875 inches, Gift of the artist in honor of John Neely and the USU Ceramics Program.
Instructor Sage Perrott Associate Professor Kathy Puzey
ART 3220 — ART 3250 — Screenprinting Relief Printing
10 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Professor Steve Shively Senior Lecturer Dennise Gackstetter, Art Education ENG 3385 — World Literary History Pre-1900 USU students from her book arts class led a Family Art Day activity on bookmaking CUSTOMIZED DISCUSSIONS at USU’s Merrill-Cazier Library AND TOURS WITH NEHMA STAFF
Senior Lecturer Susan Andersen, CLASS VISITS English and Associate Director of Writing Center 34 USU courses (2,360 students) used NEHMA as a learning resource through exhibition-related Museum-led Workshop on Protest tours, assignments, class meetings, research proj- and Literature ects, curatorial opportunities, and programming. Professors John Ferguson and Shannon Peterson K-12 & MGT 1050 — Proscholium: Foundations in Business COMMUNITY Instructor Tairon Kimura INVOLVEMENT IELI 1000 — Conversational English More than 1,270 K-12 students received directed, customized educational programming including 15 Adjunct Instructor Rosa Thornley elementary, middle and high school classes. ENGL 2010 — Intermediate Writing COMMUNITY Professional Practice Assistant Professor Molly Cannon, Director, ENGAGEMENT Museum of Anthropology FAMILY ART DAYS MUSM 3310 — Introduction to Museum Studies The third Saturday of each month NEHMA hosts hands-on art activities for all ages along with guided tours. Different activities OTHER FACULTY related to exhibitions and art on view are COLLABORATIONS offered every month. Free & open to all ages and abilities. Associate Professor Christopher Scheer
Curator of Museum + Music series
TEACHING WITH ART 11 FAMILY ART DAYS (continued) At Merrill-Cazier Library:
At Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market: Zine Workshop January 2017 Wheel-throwing July 2016 Cache County High School Clean Air Poster Contest & The Power of the Sun, Mapping Hang Tag Activity Earth’s Changing Climates from February 2017 Space, and Our Planet’s Water Cycle In partnership with USU School of Business August 2016 professors Ed Stafford and Roslynn Brain In collaboration with the Student Organization for Society & Natural Resources (SOSNR) from Mapmaking Utah State University’s Quinney College of March 2017 Natural Resources Bookmaking Exploring Color: Monochromatic Self Portraits April 2017 May 2017 MOBILE ART TRUCK OUTREACH Exploring Color: Screen Printing NEHMA’s Mobile Art Truck has provided June 2017 exhibitions and art activities to many com- munities and groups, especially since closing temporarily in December 2016 for construc- AT NEHMA: tion. We have made a concerted effort to use the time and our truck to build relation- Exploring Light as an ships and offer art activities and exhibitions Artistic Material related to NEHMA’s mission and collection. September 2016 Select Mobile Art Truck Community Visits: Make a Kinetic Sculpture October 2016 USU Botanical Center Farmers’ Market, Kaysville, UT Card Making & Mail Art USU Farmers’ Market, Logan campus November 2016 USU home football games USU Homecoming parade Open Streets Festival Logan Gallery Walk
12 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Utah Art Education Association Conference, OTHER NOTEWORTHY St. George, UT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Camp Fife, STEAM-themed event for Boy Scouts, Collinston, UT (2 visits) Evenings for Educators K-12 Logan March for Science teacher professional development Weber County Fair with Scout-O-Rama, Ogden, UT “Art Connects: New Perspectives” Mountain West Arts Conference, West Valley City, UT October 2016 North Logan’s 25th Street Market Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market (5 visits) Yoga in the Museum in partnership Logan City Limits with USU Employee Wellness Block Arts Festival, Logan, UT 2x per week, September – December 2016
Mobile Art Truck assistant Zackary Webb at Boy Scout Steam event in Preston, Idaho.
TEACHING WITH ART 13 COLLECTION
NEHMA’s permanent collection includes over 5,000 artworks from the twentieth and GIFTS twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on (alphabetical by artist) artists living or working in the western half of the United States. Works in all media are represented, Lynda Benglis ranging from paintings, sculpture, photography, 1992–1993 ceramics, drawing, printmaking, installation and Untitled, Ceramic, 10” x 12” x 7” video, providing an extensive overview of creative Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation endeavors over the last century. Selections from NEHMA’s permanent collection are always on view Bruce Conner, 19 works and rotate on a regular basis.
#109, 1970 Offset lithograph, 10.875” x 7.25” #114, 1970 2016–17 Offset lithograph, 11” x 13” ACQUISITIONS #116, 1970 Offset lithograph, 11.125” x 13.125” Total Number of Gifts: 28 #117, 1970 Total Number of Purchases: 6 Offset lithograph, 11.125” x 13.125” #126, 1971 Offset lithograph, 15” x 14.25” #201, 1970 Offset lithograph, 7.438” x 5.813” #202, 1970 Offset lithograph, 7.5” x 5.75” #207, 1970 Offset lithograph, 11.375” x 9.75”
14 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Lynda Bengalis, Untitled, 1992–1993, 10 x 12 x 7 inches, Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation.
#208, 1970 #502, 1970 Offset lithograph, 11.5” x 9.875” Offset lithograph, 8” x 7.125” #209, 1970 #503, 1970 Offset lithograph, 15” x 14.25” Offset lithograph, 8” x 7.125” #210, 1970 #504, 1970 Offset lithograph, 11” x 7.375” Offset lithograph, 8” x 7.125” #301, 1970 #505, 1970 Offset lithograph, 6” x 4.125” Offset lithograph, 8” x 7.125” #302, 1970 Gifts of the Conner Family Trust, San Francisco, CA offset lithograph, 6” x 4.125” #303, 1970 Everett George DuPen Offset lithograph, 6” x 4.125” #501, 1970 Horizontal Intertwine, 1968 Offset lithograph, 8” x 7.125” Bronze, 13.5” x 18” x 3.75” Gift of the Everett DuPen Family Foundation
COLLECTION 15 Taizo Kato
Untitled (Hose with Palm Trees, Los Angeles), ca. 1918–1920 Gelatin silver print, 13” x 10.5” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
Bethany Kriegsman
Evil Zombie, 1986 Collograph, 28.5” x 23.75” Gift of Robert Tobin and Hitoshi Ohashi
Leo Limon
Wovoka’s Corzaon, 1983 Screenprint, 25” x 38” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
Edwin Mieczkowski
Alpha Booth, 1960 Acrylic on Masonite, 32.5” x 26.5” x 1.25” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
Frank Romero Edwin Mieczkowski, Alpha Booth, ca. 1960, Acrylic on Masonite, 32.5 x 26.5 x 1.25 inches, Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation. Ford Sedan, 1990 Screenprint, 19.25” x 25.25” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation PURCHASES John Valadez (alphabetical by artist) Untitled, 1988 Screenprint, 35.5” x 24.5” Tim Bavington Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation To Cry You a Song (studio working study), Chris Weaver 2013 Inkjet print, 25” x 24” Faceted Teapot, 2016 Purchase with funds provided by the Mark Porcelain and wood, 7” x 3.75” x 7” and Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Gift of the Artist Timothy A. Fallon
16 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Okay Mountain, Untitled Tattoo Flash #4, 2013, Collage with ink , 22 x 22 inches, Museum Purchase with funds provided by The Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Timothy A. Fallon.
Lorna Meaden Untitled Tattoo Flash #3, 2013 Ink on collaged paper, 22” x 22” Punch Bowl, 2016 Untitled Tattoo Flash #4, 2013 Porcelain, 10” x 17.125” x 49.5” Ink on collaged paper, 22” x 22” Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation Purchase with funds provided by the Mark and Hilarie Moore Family Okay Mountain, 4 works Trust in memory of Timothy A. Fallon
Untitled Tattoo Flash #1, 2013 Ink on collaged paper, 22” x 22” Untitled Tattoo Flash #2, 2013 Ink on collaged paper, 22” x 22”
COLLECTION 17 Loaned for the exhibition, Howard Fried: LOANS Derelicts displayed from September 8 to November 19, 2016 Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California Lower Yosemite Fall, 1959 by Ansel Adams (Gelatin silver print) Rings and Spheres, 1980–1983 Half Dome, Thunder Cloud, 1959 by Joe Ray (Cast resin) by Ansel Adams (Gelatin silver print) Yosemite Valley, 1920 Loaned for the exhibition, Joe Ray: by William Zorach (Graphite on paper) Complexion Constellation displayed from June 17 to August 5, 2017 Loaned for the exhibition, Capturing the Canyons: Artists in National Parks displayed from April 1 to September 16, 2016 DEACCESSIONS Dixie State University Sears Art Museum Gallery, St. George, Utah December 2016
Plate, 1976 Items Deaccessioned: by Gaell Lindstrom (Stoneware) 34 non-western objects, including Park City Roofs, 1952 woodblock prints and batiks by Gaell Lindstrom (Watercolor on paper) Reason: Old Toledo, date unknown These objects were determined no longer by Gaell Lindstrom (Oil on Masonite) relevant to the Museum’s mission House by the Track, 1958 by Gaell Lindstrom (Oil on canvas) Result of Deaccessioning: Back Porch, 1967 All objects were given as gifts to Utah State by Gaell Lindstrom (Watercolor on paper) University’s Museum of Anthropology
Loaned for the exhibition, Lindstrom displayed from November 28, 2016 to January 13, 2017 CONSERVATION California College of the Arts Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, John Outterbridge San Francisco, California Two Faces, ca. 1970
The First State of Openness, 1969 Assemblage of found wood, metal, and plastic, by Howard Fried (Mixed media) 11” X 18.125” x 4.5” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
18 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Work Performed: Repair of crack, wood loss, Edwin Mieczkowski and paint loss Alpha Booth, ca. 1960 Stephan von Huene Acrylic on Masonite, 32.5” x 26.5” x 1.25” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation Marriage of the Cigar Store Work Performed: Cleaning of the object Indian’s Daughter, 1966 Wood and leather, 30” x 17” x 17” Jim Isermann Gift of Milton Sidley 1998 Work Performed: Cleaning of sculpture, Untitled, Fabric on wood panels, 66” x 66” x 66” re-adherence of parts, consolidation of Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation flaking leather
Joe Ray, Rings and Spheres, 1980-83. Loaned for the exhibition “Joe Ray: Complexion Constellation.”
COLLECTION 19 Work Performed: Rethreading of fabric on Susan Peterson, Bottle, date unknown, corner of one wood panel stoneware, 4.625 in., Gift of the artist.
In the publication, American Craft Magazine, Paul DeMarinis published in October/November 2016 by American Craft Council Pygmy Gamelan, 1973 Mixed media, 1.5” x 7” x 4.5” Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
Work Performed: Cleaning of the object DIGITIZATION
Larry Eisner & COLLECTION
Opus One, 1985 MANAGEMENT Bronze, 156” 35 objects were photographed for the Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation “Collecting on the Edge” catalogue. Work Performed: Cleaning and repatina 595 artworks are now available on the Collections page on the NEHMA website with PUBLICATIONS/ the implementation of Web Kiosk, the web component of EmbARK, our new collection RESEARCH management software.
Lee Mullican, The Ninnekah, 1951, oil on 48 Posts for “#FromtheNEHMAVault,” have linen, 54.75 x 29.75 in., Marie Eccles been archived on the NEHMA website from Caine Foundation Gift. 2014–2017. From the Vault is a collection- engagement series where students, the public, In the publication, East Asia and India in really anyone interested in participating, research Spanish Contemporary Art (1950-2000), an object not on view and provide a write-up scheduled for publication in 2018. Published by about it. Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Forrest Bess, Untitled (The Dicks), 1946, We continue to request copyright oil on canvas, 15.5 x 17.5 x 2 in., Gift of clearance for artworks needed in the collection. the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. This is another ongoing project, similar to the full digitization of the collection. In the publication, BLAU Arts Magazine, published in October 2016 by BLAU Arts Magazine
20 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 FINANCIAL REPORT
REVENUE
Grants Restricted Carryover & Reserves Parent Organization Parent $504,501.84 Endowment Income Organization Individual & Private Foundation Gifts $67,650.33
EARNED INCOME Individual & Private Endowment Income Foundation Gifts $88,372.80 Restricted Carryover & Reserves $47,682.84 Grants $15,000.00
FY2017 REVENUE: $723,207.81 EXPENDITURES
Collections Management Facilities Operations Salaries & Benefits $398,071.29 Salaries & Operations Including Travel Benefits Exhibitions & Programs $73,292.30 Art Acquisitions $75,533.06 Art Acquisitions Operations including Travel $84,714.44 Facilities Operations $12,436.36 Collections Management Exhibitions & Programs $43,155.15
FY2017 EXPENDITURES: $687,202.60
FINANCIAL REPORT 21 FACILITY
EXPANSION/ The Museum is currently undergoing a renovation and expansion, adding approximately 8,000 RENOVATION additional square feet that will include a new lobby with a café and museum shop, a new UPDATE exhibition gallery, and expanded collection storage. Additionally, renovations of existing NEHMA is housed in a 23,000 sq. ft. facilities include a new lecture/video space, purpose-built facility with approximately a newly designed study/interpretive center and 11,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. It was other exciting improvements. The expansion built in 1982, designed by renowned architect and renovation are designed by Sparano + Mooney Edward Larrabee Barnes. and constructed by Gramoll Construction.
22 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 FACILITY 23 PEOPLE
CURRENT STAFF ADVISORY
Katie Lee-Koven BOARD Executive Director & Chief Curator Zaira Arredondo Janis Boettinger PhD. Vice Provost and Director of Office of Global Collection Information Coordinator & Engagement, Utah State University Digital Content Manager Alyson Decker Alexandra Hesse Education Assistant Executive Director, The Leonardo Andrea DeHaan John Neely Administrative & Events Coordinator Professor, Ceramics, Utah State University Rebecca A. Dunham Sydney Peterson Curator of Collections & Exhibitions Chief of Staff, Utah State University Mikey Kettinger Suzanne Pierce-Moore Mobile Art Truck Supervisor USU Alumni, Former Chair USU Board of Trustees
Joseph Pesina Sally F. Sears Preparator Owner, Caffe Ibis
Selina Ramsey Marissa Vigneault, PhD. Curatorial Assistant Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art Teri Routledge History, Utah State University Business Manager, Office of the Provost Ned Weinshenker, PhD. Christopher Scheer, PhD President, Churchill Oaks Consulting Adjunct Curator, Museum + Music Series, Associate Professor, Musicology
24 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 Top: USU student Logan Christian leads geography and mapping activity on the Mobile Art Truck. Bottom: NEHMA staffer helps a child interpret and have fun with a map activity.
PEOPLE 25 Madeline Williams STUDENT Madeline assisted NEHMA’s Curator of Collections & Exhibitions by organizing exhibition brochures EMPLOYEES and catalogues along with updates to exhibition files. She did her internship for course credit as 14 part-time USU undergraduate a BFA Art student. 2 USU graduate students 1 part-time non-USU undergraduate Alyson Decker 1 part-time non-USU graduate student Alyson interned at NEHMA while pursuing a Masters in Museum Studies from John Hopkins University. She created lesson plans to meet INTERNSHIPS a variety of K-12 curricular outcomes using NEHMA’s collection.
5 INTERNS Matt Limb (3 USU undergraduate, 2 non-USU graduate) Following a national search, Matt was selected for NEHMA’s Windgate Museum Internship, a Anndee Hall prestigious internship awarded to a select number Anndee did a curatorial research internship in of institutions each year. A PhD student at UC Summer 2016 and a Marketing internship in Spring Santa Barbara, Matt curated Lighting the Fire: 2017, both in conjunction with her Art History Ceramics Education in the American West. studies. She successfully assisted NEHMA in continuing the #FromtheNEHMAVault series highlighting objects in the Museum’s collection VOLUNTEERS through digital installments.
Selina Ramsey The USU Caine College of the Arts Ambassadors serve as volunteers at Selina, an American Studies student, did a curato- Museum events on a regular basis. rial internship and assisted with numerous updates to the Museum’s new EmbARK collections data- base. Selina was also instrumental in helping organize and rearrange objects in the vault to prepare for construction.
26 NEHMA ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017 IN THE WORKS
UPCOMING EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION, “COLLECTING ON THE EDGE” This exhibition and publication, high- lighting 170 works of art from the NEHMA collection, will be premiered upon the Museum’s reopening. Short essays by 76 scholars accompany each piece in the exhibition and publication. Contributing essays by Katie Lee-Koven, Michael Duncan, and Bolton Colburn round out the publication, which also features an extensive interview with the collector George Wanlass.
MEMBERSHIP LAUNCH When the Museum reopens in fall 2018, NEHMA will launch an exciting new membership program!
Insect-making activity with the Mobile Art Truck.
IN THE WORKS 27 NEHMA MISSION
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art The museum organizes temporary exhibitions is dedicated to collecting, preserving and and numerous public events, all free of charge, exhibiting modern and contemporary visual to provide educational opportunities for USU art. We promote dialogue about ideas that undergraduate and graduate students as well are fundamentally important to contempo- as K-12 and community groups. These include rary society, and we provide crucial support class meetings, artist talks, curator talks, film for the educational mission of Utah State screenings, educational activities and tours University. and are designed to interpret, present and foster learning about visual art. NEHMA also The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art leads programs such as its Museum + Music was founded in 1982. Emphasizing 20th- Series and Family Art Days that are geared and 21st-century American art with an em- to bring together families, the community phasis on art in the American West, today and university. the collection consists of more than 5,000 artworks. Support from the Marie Eccles The museum also provides educational oppor- Caine Foundation, Kathryn C. Wanlass tunities for USU undergraduate and graduate Foundation, Nora Eccles Treadwell Foun- students pursuing professional careers in the dation, Janet Quinney Lawson Foundation museum field through on-the-job training, and Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation along independent study and internships. with many individual donors have support- ed the museum’s collection development and growth since its founding in 1982.
Cover Image: Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1969-1970, Acrylic on plastic, 48 inches diameter, Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.