Art

Recommended

All Content

Correlating Orthodoxy and Style: Institutionally “Approved” Christ-Centered Art in LDS Visual Resources and Meetinghouses, 1990–2021

Religious 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…

Racial Innocence and the Christus-Based Latter-day Saints Symbol

On April 4, 2020, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) formally adopted an institutional symbol that is now prominently displayed on the Church logo and is imprinted on Church publications, websites, videos,…

The Great Awakening of the LDS-Mormon Art Scene | Chase Westfall, Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art

The 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…

Volume Art

Abstraction in Latter-day Saint Art: An Interview with Chase Westfall

MOH: In official LDS Church materials, from magazines to manuals to temple walls, there’s a lack of abstract art, in favor of highly representational, literal art. What is the role of abstraction in religious art,…

Volume Art

Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this art here.

ART NOTE Black Joy

Dialogue 2022 Summer Issue

The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art

For the first century of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members generally did not condone artistic renderings of deity, including those of Christ.[1] It was not until the mid-twentieth century that Mormon…

Review: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion

After his death and resurrection on Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six-eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep…

The Mask We Must Wear in a Racist Society: Reflections of Black Suffering in the LDS Church Through Art

I reflect upon a work of art by Marlena Wilding, a Black female artist with ties to Utah and Mormonism.[1] Her artwork is a stark representation of the complex nature of living while Black in…

Art Note: The Most Beautiful Thing about Kathleen Peterson’s “The Woman Taken in Adultery”

Elegy for the Eaten

To the Ones whoAwakened the Universe with a wordAnd set the Cosmos afire. God-Mom and God-Dad— Stretching forth our hands,We pluck from the Tree of Life.For our mortal lives to be sustained,creaturely blood must be…

A Blessing for Starting Over

First, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…

ART NOTES: Totality & Light

Symbols on Canvas

Land and Line

The Absurd in Art and Mormonism

On My Art

Spring 2019 Issue Art

Finding God in the Abstract Hildebrando de Melo and Glen Nelson. Nzambi (God): Hildebrando de Melo.

ART ESSAY: The Color of Longing

Letters to the Editor

Art Essay: Reflections on Life, Art, Loss, and Love

What is an LDS Artist? Glen Nelson. Joseph Paul Vorst.

Art Essay: Out of Angola

Art Essay: The Loss of Art, The Art of Loss

Art: “In Brick and Stone”: The Art of Paul L. Anderson

Art

Art Notes: An Intuitive Approach to Art

Art Notes: Norma: An Excerpt from The Encore

Art

Art Essay: a time to believe abuse victims

Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions

Art: Thoughts on Lane Twitchell

Art: Islamic Art and the LDS Faith

Art: Reflections

Art

Art

Issue Art

International Art Competition

Issue Art

Drawings

Mormons and the Visual Arts

Life to the Spirit: A Rejoinder

In Defense of the Market Place

The Dichotomy of Art and Religion

Art and Belief: A Critique

Art and Belief: A Group Exhibition

Morality or Empathy? A Mormon in the Theater

The Coalville Tabernacle: A Photographic Essay

On Haiku Art

Notes on Brigham Young’s Aesthetics

Sand Dollars Gracing a Shore Within Reach

Words for Late Summer

I Am Watching Four Canada Geese

Listening to Mozart’s Requiem While Crossing the San Rafael

“Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry”: The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism

Toldot/Generations

Poor Sad, Dead Girls

Women of Cards

Pottery

Hard Publics

The Lighthouse Bookstore

Revival

Mahonri Young: His Life and Art by Thomas E. Toone

Winter Dies

Intricate, Lucid, Generous: Dancing Naked by Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner

In a Pueblo Indian Dwelling, Four-Corners

Legacy

Critical Condition

God’s Army: Wiggle Room for the Mormon Soul

Without Mercy: Neil LaBute as Mormon Artist

What is the Challenge for LDS Scholars and Artists?

Alive in Mormon Poetry

Poetry Matters in Mormon Culture

About the Artist

About the Artist

Christmas Conflict 2001

U.S. Navy Photo: “Dawn Landing on Wake Island”

The Push (Captain Pratt’s Story from Korea)

Aug 6, 2010

Nov 1, 2001

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

Swimming in the Sea of Azov

“Astonished Each Day”: An Interview with Richard J Van Wagoner Utah Artist

About the Cover Artist

About the Artists

Mormon Artists Group: Adventures in Art Making

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artists

Making the Absent Visible: The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Mormon Art

The Theology of Desire

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist: Emily Plewe

Pulses

Some Kind of Beginning

Miracle #1; Miracle #2

About The Artist: Ricky Allman

About the Artist: Mark England

Complete History of the Church

What is Mormon Cinema? Defining the Genre

About the Artist

Untitled

About the Artist

Wherever He May Go

The Tightrope Walker

Featured Artist

Featured Artist

Review: Floyd Gottfredson. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: “Race to Death Valley”

Communicating Jesus: The Encoding and Decoding Practices of Re-Presenting Jesus for LDS (Mormon) Audiences at a BYU Art Museum

Issue Art

Winter 2013 Art

Spring 2014 Art

Summer 2014 Art

A Walk through Blenheim

Issue Art

Issue Art

Resonance

Issue Art

Issue Art: Page Turner

Issue Art

Viewing Kershisnik’s Nativity

One Glory of the Moon

Correlating Orthodoxy and Style: Institutionally “Approved” Christ-Centered Art in LDS Visual Resources and Meetinghouses, 1990–2021

Religious 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…

Racial Innocence and the Christus-Based Latter-day Saints Symbol

On April 4, 2020, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) formally adopted an institutional symbol that is now prominently displayed on the Church logo and is imprinted on Church publications, websites, videos,…

The Great Awakening of the LDS-Mormon Art Scene | Chase Westfall, Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art

The 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…

Volume Art

Abstraction in Latter-day Saint Art: An Interview with Chase Westfall

MOH: In official LDS Church materials, from magazines to manuals to temple walls, there’s a lack of abstract art, in favor of highly representational, literal art. What is the role of abstraction in religious art,…

Volume Art

Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this art here.

ART NOTE Black Joy

Dialogue 2022 Summer Issue

The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art

For the first century of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members generally did not condone artistic renderings of deity, including those of Christ.[1] It was not until the mid-twentieth century that Mormon…

Review: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion

After his death and resurrection on Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six-eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep…

The Mask We Must Wear in a Racist Society: Reflections of Black Suffering in the LDS Church Through Art

I reflect upon a work of art by Marlena Wilding, a Black female artist with ties to Utah and Mormonism.[1] Her artwork is a stark representation of the complex nature of living while Black in…

Art Note: The Most Beautiful Thing about Kathleen Peterson’s “The Woman Taken in Adultery”

Elegy for the Eaten

To the Ones whoAwakened the Universe with a wordAnd set the Cosmos afire. God-Mom and God-Dad— Stretching forth our hands,We pluck from the Tree of Life.For our mortal lives to be sustained,creaturely blood must be…

A Blessing for Starting Over

First, bless the burst of anger; its force will get you free. Then, bless the tears that follow; they will provide new sight. Bless your bare feet as you put them on the earth. Run.…

ART NOTES: Totality & Light

Symbols on Canvas

Land and Line

The Absurd in Art and Mormonism

On My Art

Spring 2019 Issue Art

Finding God in the Abstract Hildebrando de Melo and Glen Nelson. Nzambi (God): Hildebrando de Melo.

ART ESSAY: The Color of Longing

Letters to the Editor

Art Essay: Reflections on Life, Art, Loss, and Love

What is an LDS Artist? Glen Nelson. Joseph Paul Vorst.

Art Essay: Out of Angola

Art Essay: The Loss of Art, The Art of Loss

Art: “In Brick and Stone”: The Art of Paul L. Anderson

Art

Art Notes: An Intuitive Approach to Art

Art Notes: Norma: An Excerpt from The Encore

Art

Art Essay: a time to believe abuse victims

Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions

Art: Thoughts on Lane Twitchell

Art: Islamic Art and the LDS Faith

Art: Reflections

Art

Art

Issue Art

International Art Competition

Issue Art

Drawings

Mormons and the Visual Arts

Life to the Spirit: A Rejoinder

In Defense of the Market Place

The Dichotomy of Art and Religion

Art and Belief: A Critique

Art and Belief: A Group Exhibition

Morality or Empathy? A Mormon in the Theater

The Coalville Tabernacle: A Photographic Essay

On Haiku Art

Notes on Brigham Young’s Aesthetics

Sand Dollars Gracing a Shore Within Reach

Words for Late Summer

I Am Watching Four Canada Geese

Listening to Mozart’s Requiem While Crossing the San Rafael

“Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry”: The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism

Toldot/Generations

Poor Sad, Dead Girls

Women of Cards

Pottery

Hard Publics

The Lighthouse Bookstore

Revival

Mahonri Young: His Life and Art by Thomas E. Toone

Winter Dies

Intricate, Lucid, Generous: Dancing Naked by Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner

In a Pueblo Indian Dwelling, Four-Corners

Legacy

Critical Condition

God’s Army: Wiggle Room for the Mormon Soul

Without Mercy: Neil LaBute as Mormon Artist

What is the Challenge for LDS Scholars and Artists?

Alive in Mormon Poetry

Poetry Matters in Mormon Culture

About the Artist

About the Artist

Christmas Conflict 2001

U.S. Navy Photo: “Dawn Landing on Wake Island”

The Push (Captain Pratt’s Story from Korea)

Aug 6, 2010

Nov 1, 2001

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

Swimming in the Sea of Azov

“Astonished Each Day”: An Interview with Richard J Van Wagoner Utah Artist

About the Cover Artist

About the Artists

Mormon Artists Group: Adventures in Art Making

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artists

Making the Absent Visible: The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Mormon Art

The Theology of Desire

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist

About the Artist: Emily Plewe

Pulses

Some Kind of Beginning

Miracle #1; Miracle #2

About The Artist: Ricky Allman

About the Artist: Mark England

Complete History of the Church

What is Mormon Cinema? Defining the Genre

About the Artist

Untitled

About the Artist

Wherever He May Go

The Tightrope Walker

Featured Artist

Featured Artist

Review: Floyd Gottfredson. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: “Race to Death Valley”

Communicating Jesus: The Encoding and Decoding Practices of Re-Presenting Jesus for LDS (Mormon) Audiences at a BYU Art Museum

Issue Art

Winter 2013 Art

Spring 2014 Art

Summer 2014 Art

A Walk through Blenheim

Issue Art

Issue Art

Resonance

Issue Art

Issue Art: Page Turner

Issue Art

Viewing Kershisnik’s Nativity

One Glory of the Moon