Part of the museum’s “Unframed” events series, and held in conjunction with 38th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, join us for “SMA Unframed - Discussion with Authors of Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader”, in partnership with the Springville Museum of Art.

Engage with presentaitons and Q&A from each featured author, and stay for a social celebration of the book’s publication.

Featured Authors:

• Heather Belnap, “Globetrotting Mormon Women Artists and the Art of Travel, 1900-1950”

• Laura Paulsen Howe, “‘Who Did I Leave Out and Should Have Included?’: The History and Influence of the International Art Competitions at the Church History Museum”

• Laura Allred Hurtado, “A Culture (and Its Artifacts) in Search of Self”

• Jenny Reeder, “Making Something Extraordinary: Nineteenth Century Mormon Women and Their Folk Art”

• James Swensen, “Defining the Mormon Landscape: Photography and the Representation and Evolution of a Distinctive American Space”