USU Barn Blog

The last news I heard of the Art Barn was that Utah State University and USU Credit Union were working together to turn the building into of...

The Utah Museum Association (UMA), a group representing over 250 museums in Utah, held their annual conference this year in Logan. At least ...

The Art Barn was many different things to the students, faculty, and staff who came and went there over the years. To Darnel Haney, the Art ...

Adrian Van Suchtelen, an award-winning artist who taught in the USU Art Department from 1967 until 2003, shared some of his memories of the ...

In an earlier post we alluded to an article written in the campus newspaper in 1919 about the Art Barn when it made its debut as the horse b...

Barn research team member Jason Neil has been continuing his research in USU Special Collections and Archives and has uncovered more documen...

Alice Cardon Crockett, who sent us a story about the time she rode U-Dandy (one of the stud horses kept at USU in the horse barn days), shar...

This scan of a drawing from 1952, when the barns and animals were being removed from campus, shows a proposed renovation of the horse barn i...

Barn research team member Jason Neil shared some of his discoveries in the USU archives: "Today while I was at the special collections,...

Thad Box, Dean Emeritus of the College of Natural Resources, shared with us some of his memories of the barn in the days when it was consid...

Jason Neil, barn research team member, uncovered a draft of an article in the USU archives describing the Art Barn circa 1959, which is tran...

The transformation of the Art Barn into the USU Welcome Center and Museum of Anthropology is a creative idea and an excellent reuse for a hi...

Kevin Krogh, professor of Spanish at USU, was one of the last people to have an office in the barn before its upper floors were condemned. H...

Using the campus phone directories in the USU archives, barn research team member Jason Neil has compiled a list of all the professors and ...

Rose Milovich, the Preservation Manager and Exhibition Program Director for USU's Special Collections and Archives, took classes in the ...

Barn research team member Jason Neil has taken on the challenge of creating a complete list of all the professors who taught or had offices ...

It is easy to forget that the Art Barn was once part of a complex of barns and corrals located where the Taggart Student Center and parking ...

Friends and neighbors : USU's "Team Barn" needs your help! Without giving away too much about the fun we're cooking up n...

While many people who share their memories of the barn have strong associations with one stage of its existence, others have known the barn ...

Thanks to the Utah Humanities Council for providing funding to support the historical and oral history research reported in this blog from J...

Debora Seiter’s husband John is a speech communications professor whose office was in the Art Barn before the upper floors of the building w...

Ruth Swaner, local author and artist, shared some of her stories as an art education student at USU in the 1960s. She said it was a “wild an...

In the early days of USU, when it was Utah Agricultural College, barns were an important part of the landscape on campus, in Cache Valley, a...

To Leo Krebs, 89 year old North Logan native and former USU dairy herdsman, Utah State University is the heart of Cache Valley. He has a lot...