Impact
Through his leadership the Center has moved from idea to impact in five short years. By establishing this Endowment, the Center seeks to honor and perpetuate the vision of Richard Bushman for years to come. Through the generous support of those who join us in honoring the life and vision of Richard Bushman, the Endowment committee will direct annual returns for the benefit of Center programs including research and scholarship, artists in residency programs, special exhibits and live performances. The Center’s ambitious new initiative will be to raise $2 million towards a survey of Latter-day Saint visual art from the beginning to the present. A multi-year project, the first step will be the publication of A Guide to Mormon Art, featuring the work of 24 of our best scholars and covering Latter-day Saint visual art from the beginning to the present.
Exhibition
The second step will be an inclusive 2025 exhibition of this art in a New York venue on Fifth Avenue near the Metropolitan Museum followed by another installation in Salt Lake City in the Church History Museum and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Travel to other Latter-day Saint population centers will follow.
Center
At the intersection of cultural relevance and divine creativity, the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts seeks to tell the more global story of the Latter-day Saints through the arts. It was organized to study, promote and encourage art and artists who identify as or affiliate with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by both faith and culture and across all media. Growing rapidly from an annual festival to a robust organization of ongoing programming, the Center hosts a gallery in the heart of New York City's Lincoln Center. The Center produces conferences, symposiums, grant projects and publications.
The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts is pleased to announce the Richard Bushman Endowment for the Arts and Major Projects Fund. Richard Bushman is the co- founder and chairman of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts based in New York City.
The Richard Bushman Endowment for the Arts gratefully acknowledges its generous founding donors:
Pictures from the Richard Bushman birthday celebration dinner, held on September 25, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Richard Bushman Endowment for the Arts was announced on that evening.