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New art exhibit in SLC features female Latter-day Saint artists
SALT LAKE Town — A new art exhibit exclusively features the will work of Latter-day Saint women artists, making a statement about the Divine Female. From their religion and their hearts arrive creations of 130 Latter-day Saint women artists that reflect a exceptional non secular thought. Three curators brought these artists together in an worldwide exhibit — their third triennial exhibition titled “Certain Ladies.” The phrase is taken from the scriptures. Nicole Woodbury explained the idea with more than one particular which means appealed to them. “We like that title due to the fact it has a double entendre of certainty of figuring out the divinity of Christ and also currently…
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Q&A: Historian Richard Bushman and the relevance of Latter-day Saint art
What was the first substantial work of art in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? If you ask Richard Bushman, considered by many as the dean of historians in Mormon studies, the answer centers around the church’s earliest temples. “The Saints, without means, in their time of poverty, put a huge amount of effort into the Kirtland temple,” Bushman told the Deseret News. “They carved those sunstones, moonstones and star stones because the temple deserved to be beautified and honored by art. If you put beauty at the center of our religious culture, that means it’s sort of essential. Our greatest work of Mormon art,…
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