Unearthed:
The NEHMA Ceramics Collection & The Woman Behind It
August 30, 2022 - December 16, 2023
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
Explore the Exhibition
Object Groupings and Chronology
Nora Eccles Treadwell Harrison
Pre 20th Century - 1920s
1930s and 1940s
María Martinez
1950s and 1960s
1970s and 1980s
1990s and Beyond
Artists:
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
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
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
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

Viola Frey (1933-2004)
Urn, circa 1974
Porcelain
10.25 x 11 x 10.5 inches
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
Collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University.