Representatives from the National Endowment for the Humanities visited the future site of the Wanlass Center at Utah State University on Jan. 19, 2024. The new center for art education and research received $750,000 in NEH funding in 2022. From left to right: NEH Senior Deputy Chair Anthony Mitchell, NEHMA Executive Director Katie Lee-Koven, and NEH Chair Shelly Lowe. (Photo Credit: Jesse Walker/USU)
LOGAN – When the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University was awarded a $750,000 grant in 2022, it was designated to help in the construction of the 9,500 square foot Wanlass Center for Art Education & Research, an addition to the museum.
The new center will include a new study center with an open work area plus a research library and room for art storage for collection growth.
The museum received the maximum amount of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the new center. And last week NEH Chair Shelly Lowe and Senior Deputy Chair Anthony Mitchell made a special visit to USU and spent time at the Wanlass construction site.
The visiting NEH leaders, making their first official trip to Utah, met Friday in the museum’s media room with a small group of faculty and administrators from the museum, the Caine College of the Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Museum Executive Director Katie Lee-Koven said the two NEH officials were invited to Utah by the Sundance Film Festival but were able to add impromptu visits to meet grant recipients while making stops at USU and the Stokes Nature Center.
The NEH is a federal agency which funds initiatives in the humanities.
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