May 10, 2024 - August, 2024, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (Mesa, AZ)

The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts will debut a visual arts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum in downtown Mesa, AZ, selected by the museum through a prospectus process. The substantial exhibition features works from more than thirty-five LDS affiliated artists from around the globe, including Eduardo Alvarez, Ginny Huo, Susana Isabel de Silva, Brian Kershisnik, Kent Christensen, Mary Sauer and Arizona-native-Corrine Geertson. The exhibition will present a broad array of media and thought within contemporary Mormon art inviting viewers to explore the complexity of ideas inspired by an increasingly worldwide faith tradition.

Organized by Heather Belnap, Brontë Hebdon Patterson, and Ashlee Whitaker through the following themes: community and belonging; natural and built environments; worldmaking; peculiar “Mormon” iconography; sacred memory; and the body as a privileged and yet contested site.

Opening September 26, 2024 through February 2025, Church History Museum (Salt Lake City, UT)

Work and Wonder: 200 Years of Latter-day Saint Art is organized by the Church History Museum and the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, whose donors helped make the exhibition possible. Heather Belnap, Ashlee Whitaker Evans, and Brontë Hebdon are the curatorial team behind the exhibition.

As the Church nears the bicentennial of its organization in 1830, this exhibition surveys two centuries’ worth of art and objects created by individuals connected to the faith. Work and Wonder is the largest and most comprehensive attempt to show the variety of works by Latter-day Saint artists around the world from the Church’s founding to the present. It includes imagery from a broad array of backgrounds, materials, and styles and invites audiences to consider both the historical traditions and future trajectories of Latter-day Saint art. Rather than telling a story chronologically or geographically, the exhibition is organized into four thematic sections: Memory and Archive; Individual and Church; Sacred Spaces; and Identity.

April 9th, 2024, at 7:30pm, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall (New York City, NY)

Celebrated soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen will make her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall as a guest of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. Willis-Sørensen is a regular at leading opera houses around the world, from the LA Opera to Opéra national de Paris. 

At Zankel Hall, Willis-Sørensen will sing works by Strauss and song cycles by Rachmaninoff, Beach, and Sebelius. She will also give the world premiere of S. Andrew Lloyd's Amaranthine, winner of the 2022 Prize of The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, an endowment created to honor the legacy of Metropolitan Opera mezzo, Ariel Bybee (1943-2018).