Unearthed
The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It
August 30, 2022 - April 22, 2024
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.
Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It is an exhibition featuring approximately 292 ceramic works of art in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) collection of 1500 ceramics. The selection of ceramics for the book and exhibition intentionally highlight both recognized and under-recognized artists, women artists, influential women ceramics educators, and Native American ceramicists with the intention of providing a revised historiography of ceramics in the western United States, including one that brings forth Nora Eccles Harrison’s role in ceramics history.
While ceramics and ceramics history is more well documented and contextualized in comparison to other areas of craft in the United States, however this exhibition will shift the narrative of ceramics by intentionally highlighting artists who deserve more recognition and have yet to be contextualized within the broader ceramics history, while also including recognized and renowned ceramicists in the field.
Exhibition Team
Project Director & Curator | NEHMA Museum Director and Chief Curator, Katie Lee-Koven
Curator | Billie Sessions, Phd.
Associate Curator | Matthew Limb
Exhibition Coordinator, Writing & Research Contributor, Exhibition Design | Sara Eco Conti PhD.
Installation | NEHMA Coordinator of Exhibitions & Collections, Selina Christensen
Writing & Research Contributor | Ayla Murray
Writing & Research Contributor | Sara Morris
Graphic Design & Installation | NEHMA Registrar, Zaira Arredondo
- Brad Adams
- Von Allen
- Laura Andreson
- Mary Archuleta
- Robert Arneson
- Rudy Autio
- Angela Baca
- Ralph Bacerra
- Lesley Baker
- F. Carlton Ball
- Earnest A. Batchelder
- Bauer Pottery USA
- Dorothy Bearnson
- Susan Beiner
- Alan Bennett
- Robert Bennett
- Beth Bialkowski
- Paul Bonifas
- Frank Boyden
- Richard Bresnahan
- Debbie Brown
- Joseph G. Brown
- Gail Busch
- Rose Cabat
- Carol Calabaza
- Alexander Stirling Calder
- California Art Tile Company
- Thomas Campbell
- Virginia Cartwright
- Douglas K. Casebeer
- Catalina Island Pottery
- Grace Chapella
- Adele Chase
- Marie Z. Chino
- Sam Chung
- Bede Clarke
- Alice Cling
- Elaine Coleman
- Tom Coleman
- Annette Corcoran
- Philip Cornelius
- Patrick Crabb
- David Cressey
- Joe Davis
- Rupert Deese
- Dora DeLarios
- Harris Deller
- Mark Derby
- Richard Devore
- Barbara A. Diduk
- Rick Dillingham
- Ruth Duckworth
- David Dyche
- Joel Edwards
- Larry Elsner
- Liz Enyeart
- Richard Fairbanks
- Christine Federighi
- Kenneth Ferguson
- Mel Fowler
- Richard Fox
- Viola Frey
- Michael Frimkess
- David Furman
- Dennise Gackstetter
- Jessie C. Garcia
- David James Gilhooly
- Andrea Gill
- Rose Gonzales
- Jane Grimm
- Erik Gronborg
- Maurice Grossman
- Maija Grotell
- Chris Gustin
- Halcyon Art Pottery
- Shoji Hamada
- Leah Hardy
- Ken Harju
- Susan Harris
- Todd Hayes
- Otto Heino
- Vivika Heino
- Elaine Henry
- Jason Hess
- Catharine Hiersoux
- Wayne Higby
- Chuck Hindes
- Judy Hiramoto
- CJ Jilek
- Donald Johns
- Robert Johnson
- Ellice T. Johnston
- Mary Juan
- Jun Kaneko
- Douglas Kenney
- Adaline Kent
- Ernie Kim
- Karen Koblitz
- Cindy Kolodziejski
- Howard Kottler
- Eva Kwong
- Mary Law
- Jill Lawley
- Bernard Leach
- Forrest Lesch-Middleton
- Marilyn Levine
- Mary Lindheim
- Gaell Lindstrom
- Nils Lou
- James Lovera
- Virginia Lowden
- Michael Lucero
- Glen Lukens
- Warren MacKenzie
- Louis Marak
- Tony Martin
- Alice Martinez
- Julian Martinez
- Maria Martinez
- Popovi Da Martinez
- Santana Martinez
- John Mason
- Karen Massaro
- Tim Mather
- Harrison McIntosh
- James F. McKinnell
- Nan McKinnell
- Henry Mead
- Lorna Meaden
- James Melchert
- Ron Meyers
- Robert (Boomer) Moore
- Lynn Munns
- Dan Murphy
- Ron Nagle
- Darlene Nampeyo
- Fannie Nampeyo
- Nellie Nampeyo
- Rose Naranjo
- Charmae Shields Natseway
- Gertrud Natzler
- Otto Natzler
- Joy Navasie
- Eunice Navasie Fawn
- John Neely
- Elena Netherby
- Gerald Newcomb
- Richard Notkin
- George Ohr
- Walter Ostrom
- Pacific Pottery
- David Pendell
- Susan Peterson
- Mark Pharis
- Howard Pierce
- Antonio Prieto
- Eunice Prieto
- Mark Prieto
- Regal China Corporation
- Grant Virdin Reber
- Louis Reilly
- Don Reitz
- Harry Reuben Reynolds
- Mel Robson
- Edna Romero
- Annabeth Rosen
- Roseville Pottery
- Jerry Rothman
- Mel Rubin
- Herbert H. Sanders
- Adrian Saxe
- Brad Schwieger
- Frances Senska
- David Shaner
- Diane Otte Shaw
- Richard Shaw
- Juanita Shije
- Sandy Simon
- Kari Smith
- Malcolm Mobutu Smith
- Paul Soldner
- Robert Sperry
- Christopher Staley
- Dirk Staschke
- Magdalena Suarez Frimkess
- Toshiko Takaezu
- Akio Takamori
- Joan Takayma-Ogawa
- John Takehara
- Nora Eccles Harrison Treadwell
- Walter G. Treadwell
- Jack Troy
- Deanna Tso
- Faye B. Tso
- Bertha Tungovia
- Robert C. Turner
- Markus Urbanik
- Peter Voulkos
- Baba Wagué Diakité
- Jason Walker
- Patty Warashina
- Andrew Watson
- Maryann Webster
- Kurt Weiser
- Marguerite Wildenhain
- Gerry Williams
- Winfield Ceramics
- Robert Winokur
- Beatrice Wood
- Betty Woodman
- Kevin Yazzie
- David Zweifel