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EditorCHARLOTTE CONDIE’s {[email protected]} work focuses on life and love against the backdrop of Latter-Day Saint community and culture, its triumphs, and its challenges. My personal wrestle with the Divine and life with scrupulosity informs my…
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Noel A. CarmackReligious images have long been used in Latter-day Saint worship and instruction. Paintings, illustrations, and graphic works served a devotional function among the early Church members. Not only did the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo use…
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Heather BelnapThe summer of 2021 brought a greatly anticipated event to the LDS-Mormon art community: the opening of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts’s gallery in Manhattan. Its inaugural exhibition, Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in…
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Issue ArtAbstraction in Latter-day Saint Art: An Interview with Chase Westfall
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Issue ArtListen to the Out Loud Interview about this art here.
ART NOTE Black Joy
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(author)The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art
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Lita Little GiddinsLand and Line
Andi Pitcher DavisThe Absurd in Art and Mormonism
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Jennifer ChampouxART ESSAY: The Color of Longing
Melody JohnsonLetters to the Editor
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Gary H. DriggsProfessor Clark’s “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” takes us into a very interesting world in which Art and Religion (the good guys) are engaged in a deathly struggle with the Market Place (the bad…
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R. A. ChristmasIt is easy to sympathize with Dr. Marden Clark’s essay, “Art, Religion, and the Market Place” — too easy. We are all, I suppose, concerned about the relationship of religion and art, and on the…
Art, Religion and the Market Place
Marden J. ClarkArt and religion share a common end and a common enemy. The common end is the enrichment of the life of the spirit; the common enemy is the market place. That the end, or at…
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Douglas HillThe recent exhibit of paintings by Mormon artists held at the Salt Lake City Public Library was not, as many people hoped or expected, a confirmation of what might be called a Mormon style. The…
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Dale FletcherCould there be a “Mormon Art”—something different, vital, worthy of both words, Mormon and art? During the school year 1965-66 this and related questions were being discussed much around the B.Y.U. art department, mostly on…
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Notes from the Artist’s Sketchbook
James ChristensenNotes on Brigham Young’s Aesthetics
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Livre d’Artiste: The Book of Abraham by Day Christensen and Wulf Barsch
Lowell DurhamSand Dollars Gracing a Shore Within Reach
B. J. Fogg“Hey, Brian!” Dead leaned into my room. “Be ready to leave in about thirty minutes.” “Fine,” I replied, not worried that I hadn’t even begun to pack. I rummaged through my drawers and closet and…
Words for Late Summer
Dixie Lee PartridgeCornmeal, dusted over these loaves
like pollen. And I wish again
for the old unwritten recipes: brown breads,
chicken baked in a wrap of cornmeal,
family reunion picnics I can’t match
with my own.