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Unpacking the Festival
Glen Nelson Glen Nelson

Unpacking the Festival

The Mormon Arts Center Festival ended Saturday afternoon, July 1, 2017. I don’t really know how best to describe the events of those four days (five, if you could the exhibition set up). Anybody who was there has their own impressions, so I can only speak ...

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What Happened?
Richard Bushman Richard Bushman

What Happened?

A year or two ago, a graduate student asked my wife Claudia how Exponent II, the Mormon women’s newspaper/magazine got started a little over forty years ago. Claudia was the first editor and there from the beginning, the right source of information ...

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The Jewish Museum
Richard Bushman Richard Bushman

The Jewish Museum

When the Mormon Arts Center founders looked for precedents for their budding endeavor,
they often seized upon the Jewish Museum as one parallel. Though light years ahead of us in
size and scope, the Jewish Museum organizers were motivated by the desire to explore the
culture and art of a people rooted in a religion-- just as we were ...

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The Festival Magazine
Glen Nelson Glen Nelson

The Festival Magazine

Every attendee at the Festival (June 29-July 1, 2017) will receive a free magazine. I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the maps, directions, restaurant listings, schedules of events, and information about what is happening ...

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Christo
Laura Allred Hurtado Laura Allred Hurtado

Christo

One of the works in Immediate Present, is J. Kirk Richards’ Christo (series) (2014). It was acquired by the Church History Museum the year it was made and after it came down from hanging in the exhibition Mondo Mormon: the Utah Biennial ...

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A Day in the Life
Richard Bushman Richard Bushman

A Day in the Life

On Tuesday mornings, I set the alarm for 6:45 a.m. to remind me that at 7:00 a.m. our Finance Committee call begins. We use Dave Checketts’ conference call network because he is a member of the committee and has a number already set up for his business calls. Jeff Holt, chair of the finance committee, sets the agenda, but everyone pitches in.

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