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Press Release: Center for Latter-day Saint Arts Receives $15,000 Grant from the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundation to Support Funding for Artists and Scholars
NEW YORK CITY, New York – July 21, 2019 – The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts has received a generous grant of $15,000 from The Beverely Taylor Sorenson Foundation (BTSF) to support funding for artists and scholars who participate in future festivals hosted by the Center.
Podcast transcription: Audacious Play: Sculptures by Page Turner
Assemblage artist Page Turner talks about how the sisterhood of women in the Church in her hollow near Roanoke, Virginia, inspire her work, which has recently been included in 50 Women Contemporary Women Artists, alongside some of the most important artists working today.
Meet the Artists
Meet the artists exhibiting at the festival. There are five art exhibitions at the Center for Latter-day Saints 2019 festival: Karalee Kuchar, A Long Mournful Cry; Daniel George, God to Go West; Megan Knobloch Geilman, Page Turner, and Samantha Zauscher, Belief in Zion; Emily Erekson, Out of the Rolling Ocean; and Hannah Pardoe, Ab Imo Pectore.
Download a free digital magazine that includes an interview with the artists and examples of their work.
The Other Side of Heaven 2 NYC Premiere Screening
The producers of the new film, The Other Side of Heaven 2, are having a premiere screening in NYC, Thursday, June 27, 2019, on the eve of the Center’s festival. They are generously giving all proceeds of the premiere go to the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. We invite you to attend.
Synopsis: Missionary John H. Groberg returns to Tonga in the 1960s with his wife and their five young daughters. When their sixth child is born with a serious illness, the Grobergs face their ultimate test of faith, only to find themselves surrounded by the love and prayers of thousands of Tongans. Barriers of interreligious strife are soon broken down as all unite in hopes of a miracle that will save the baby's life, as well as the life of a Tongan minister's son.