What is the Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts?
The Endowment is an annual prize/commission for the creation of new art and scholarship by Latter-day Saints. The nine disciplines represented by the Endowment correspond to career highlights and passions of Ariel Bybee and are in honor of her. Each year, The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts will announce a call for submissions open to LDS artists and scholars in one of these nine, rotating categories: opera, dance, scholarship, art songs, youth education, hymns, visual arts, collaborative arts, and choral music. After adjudication, selected artists or scholars will receive funding from the Endowment in order to create new works.
What are the artistic goals of the Endowment?
The Endowment aspires to the creation of works of the highest artistic quality. It fills a void in LDS culture to fund fine art works in the fields of visual art, scholarship, and music. It is our expectation that works emerging with The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts imprimatur be hallmarks of innovation, critical importance, and creative significance and will come from an inclusive group of voices from around the world.
What are the Endowment’s fundraising needs? How do I donate? Is My Donation Tax Deductible?
The fundraising goal is $150,000, which would permit annual prizes in the range of $5,000-$10,000 drawn in perpetuity from income generated by The Endowment. If The Endowment is larger than its target of $150,000, the amounts available to artists will increase.
There are three ways to donate to The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts:
Donate online (see button below). Donations may also be made via VENMO @centerforldsarts. Should you choose to use Venmo or PayPal, please write your name and list the Endowment.
Make out a check to “Center for Latter-day Saint Arts” and mail to:
Center for Latter-day Saint Arts
P.O Box 230465
New York, NY 10023-0008
Contact the Center to set up a conversation about your contribution. To do so, please email: bybee@centerforlatterdaysaintarts.org or call 347.325.2165.
Donations made to The Endowment are tax deductible. The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts is a 501(c)(3) entity. Donors to The Endowment will be recognized by name in all future Endowment publications and references.
WHAT ARE THE DONATION TIERS?
All donors will be recognized on this website and in all future publications of the Endowment. The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts gratefully accepts donations of all sizes.
$100 - $500: Donor’s name will appear on this website. Also, the donor will receive exhibition ephemera from Sargent’s Daughters gallery exhibit in NYC.
$500 - $1,000: All of the above, plus autographed exhibition ephemera.
$1,000 - $5,000: All of the above, plus an invitation to an exclusive concert at Neylan McBaine’s home in SLC, UT featuring Ariel’s favorite concert works. Date TBD.
$10,000+ : All of the above, plus the opportunity to have David Fletcher play a private concert in your home of his original compositions and arrangements, including those Ariel performed regularly.
Thank you to the following individuals:
