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The official podcast of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts with interviews of artists and scholars on topics of art with host Glen Nelson.

  1. Rose Datoc Dall's Expressions of Jesus

    12/19/2025

    Rose Datoc Dall's Expressions of Jesus

    In this engaging episode about Christian painting, artist Rose Datoc Dall, explores her artistic journey, the curation of the book Expressions of Jesus, and the importance of cultural representation in art about Jesus Christ. The new book of hundreds of images includes over 100 artists throughout history and from around the world. It raises important questions: How should a contemporary artist represent the Savior right now? Should the image reflect the artist's heritage, give a nod to the historical Jesus, or follow an existing cultural tradition? Rose Datoc Dall is a thought-leader in LDS culture regarding this powerful and complex topic. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Send us a text about the podcast.

    51 min
  2. The Art Tour: How to Make a New Musical

    11/07/2025

    The Art Tour: How to Make a New Musical

    What does it take to get a new musical staged on Broadway? In this episode, composer and lyricist Kyle Fackrell describes the journey of his new Off-Broadway musical, The Art Tour, that opens on 42nd Street next week. More than a recounting of the challenges and triumphs of producing an original work for the theater, Kyle details how the two-character show represents all of us in our decisions to be bold. It asks questions about love, art, and purpose. The interview is also a behind-the-scenes look about the process of collaborating, creating a business, and simply taking the big, risky leap. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Excerpt from: The Art Tour, music and lyrics by Kyle Fackrell; used with permission. View the video podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF53Udt6IX4 Send us a text about the podcast.

    37 min
  3. Ted Bushman's Tabletop Roleplaying Game, The Last Caravan

    10/17/2025

    Ted Bushman's Tabletop Roleplaying Game, The Last Caravan

    The Last Caravan is a tabletop roleplaying game created by Ted Bushman, set in a post-apocalyptic America that's been devastated by an alien invasion. Unlike many roleplaying games where players take on their personas of superheroes and intergalactic warriors, this game is about regular people--teachers, truck drivers, librarians, mechanics, moms, even dogs--who band together to survive wild situations. In this interview with the 2025 ENnie-award nominated game for Best Game and Product of the Year, published by Mythworks, Ted talks about how this game is played and how it came to be created. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. https://tedbushman.itch.io/ Send us a text about the podcast.

    42 min
  4. 2025 Artists Residency: 6 Artists and 3 Short Questions

    09/26/2025

    2025 Artists Residency: 6 Artists and 3 Short Questions

    The Artists Residency at the Center concludes its 2025 cohort and asks the artists--Alexandra Mackenzie Johns (UK/Utah, literature & drama), David Jones (Oregon, music composition), Thayer Jonutz (Michigan, choreography), Zinta Jaunitis (United Kingdom, visual art), Jackie Leishman (California, visual art) and Daniel Martinez (Uruguay, visual art)--three questions. They are: what books they're currently reading, how Covid affected them and their art, and when they began to think of themselves as artists. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Photo credit: Kah Poon Photography Send us a text about the podcast.

    40 min
  5. A Leap into the Darkness: The Relationship of Artists and Galleries, with David Ericson and Justin Wheatley

    09/05/2025

    A Leap into the Darkness: The Relationship of Artists and Galleries, with David Ericson and Justin Wheatley

    Most people are unaware of the symbiotic relationship between artists and the gallerists who represent them. How does a gallery support, encourage, and market an artist's work? And how does an artist rely on the expertise of a gallerist when they are starting out, in mid-career, and when they want to defy expectation with something new? This interview brings visual artist Justin Wheatley and David Ericson, the owner of David Ericson Fine Art in Salt Lake City, Utah, together to uncover surprising ties of trust between creativity and commerce.  Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Send us a text about the podcast.

    27 min
  6. Music, Technology, and Memory: Award-winning Art from Argentina

    08/15/2025

    Music, Technology, and Memory: Award-winning Art from Argentina

    Winners of the Ariel Bybee Endowment Prize, Gonzalo and Susana Silva speak about their new exhibition, Instrumentos de silencio (Instruments of Silence). The 15-piece show at Sargent's Daughters gallery in New York (and later traveling to the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California) plays with ideas of musical instruments and history, but also the ways that invading Europeans subjugated and tandemized Andean populations with outside culture, including music.  Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Send us a text about the podcast.

    30 min
  7. Walter Rane: A Life of Painting

    07/18/2025

    Walter Rane: A Life of Painting

    His paintings are in nearly every Latter-day Saint meetinghouse and in many temples in the world. The beloved artist Walter Rane discusses in this podcast his life as a painter, insights he has discovered about himself through the freedom of creating, and why he loves painting now more than ever. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Send us a text about the podcast.

    1 hr
  8. The Bizarre, Unbelievable, and Miraculous Story of The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857

    06/20/2025

    The Bizarre, Unbelievable, and Miraculous Story of The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857

    It’s like a true crime podcast, but it’s about art. An heirloom masterpiece is created, mutilated, inherited, then lost--one of the most important objects in a rich culture’s history. Over a century later, a frantic search ensues, not unlike a manhunt, with a deadline fast approaching and a forthcoming, major exhibition hanging in the balance. Can it be recovered in time? Scholars Heather Belnap, Ashlee Whitaker Evans, and Brontë Hebdon detail the extraordinary tale of a pre-Civil War album quilt cut in half, lost, and then found. The work itself is one of the most significant objects in all of LDS culture. Music: "Please Only Tell Me Good News” by Stephen Anderson; used with permission. Send us a text about the podcast.

    55 min
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The official podcast of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts with interviews of artists and scholars on topics of art with host Glen Nelson.

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  • Creator
    Center for Latter-day Saint Arts
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    94
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    Clean
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