‘Mormon Land’: A weekend of artistic expression — with an LDS twist
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mormon historian, Richard Bushman gives a talk at Benchmark Books in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, January 17, 2018.
Art expresses and evokes deep human emotions, which makes it intimately connected to spirituality. It makes sense, then, for LDS artists to explore their faith through their creativity.
In 2017, such links prompted a group of Latter-day Saints in New York City to launch the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which LDS author Terryl Givens called “a seminal event in Mormonism’s coming of age artistically.”
A year later, the festival has grown larger and even more international, says one of the organizers, Richard L. Bushman, the famed Mormon scholar and emeritus history professor at Columbia.
Before the festival gets underway on June 28, Bushman explains why a rigorous look at Mormon arts is crucial to the Utah-based faith.
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