The Center’s Studio Podcast

The official podcast of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, now in its 7th season, features monthly, in-depth interviews of artists and scholars on topics of art, with host Glen Nelson.

Listen to 2024 episodes

  • Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader with Editors Mason Kamana Allred and Amanda Beardsley - Part 1

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  • Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader with editors Mason Kamana Allred and Amanda Beardsley - Part 2

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  • Inspired Arts League with Brittany Scott and Ellen Wheeler

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  • Wikipedian-in-Residence: Rachel Helps

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  • Museums Coming to Life: Brett Peterson and Exhibition Interactivity

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  • The Burning Hope of Artist Collin Bradford

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  • The World Premiere of S. Andrew Lloyd’s Amaranthine

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  • American Folk Music with Mia Black

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  • The Chosen's Global Languages, with Brad Pelo

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  • Succession: The Center Announces a New Chairman

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Listen to 2023 episodes

  • The 2024 Prize: On Music Education with Jamie Peterson and Patrick Perkins

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  • Inside the Center's Christmas Gift Guide

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  • Steven Ricks Writes an Opera

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  • The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction - Editors' Panel

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  • The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction - Authors' Panel

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  • Madeline Rupard, the Mundane, and the Sublime

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  • Claudia Lauper Bushman: A Record Shall Be Kept

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  • Stephen Anderson and The Dominican Jazz Project

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  • Fear and Trembling: A Discussion about Mormon Horror with Filmmaker Barrett Burgin

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  • Can Music Change the World? with Pianist Jihea Hong-Park

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  • The Artists Residency at the Center hosted by Stanley Hainsworth

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  • The Brilliant Darkness of Aaron Toronto and Nha Uyen Ly Nguyen

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  • A New Voice in Film: Luis Fernando Puente

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2022 episodes

  • The Strangeness of Fiction with William Morris

  • The Making of the Animated Series, Saving Me

  • Joël René Scoville on Writing Musicals Today

  • Rachel Rueckert's Wandering Spirit

  • John Held, Jr.'s Fiction

  • The Sacred Feminine: A Panel Discussion

  • Margaret Olsen Hemming and Picturing the Sacred Feminine

2021 episodes

  • Painting Toilet Paper and the Art of Kirsten Holt Beitler

  • Maggie Golightly Haslam's Wasteless Art

  • Jeffrey Lee Butler and The Lost Months of Brooklyn

  • Marin Leggat Roper's Vision of Dance

  • James R. Swensen on Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and the WPA Photographers in Utah

  • The Making of a Scholar: Elisabeth Hunt

  • The Center Gallery Opens: A Conversation with Curator Chase Westfall

  • Jennifer Reeder's Newest Friend: Emma Smith

  • Convergence: The Art of Fidalis Buehler

  • The Total Arc: How Artists Can Take Control of Their Careers, with Andrew Maxfield

  • Contemporary Art in Mexico City with Georgina Bringas and Ricardo Rendón

  • Inside the Fine Art Market with Warren Winegar

2020 episodes

  • Emily Larsen Doxford on Art for Uncertain Times

  • James Faulconer: What Questions Are the Scriptures Asking Us?

  • Live Life Deliciously with Tara Teaspoon

  • Song of Names

  • Neylan McBaine: Pioneering the Vote

  • John Williamson, Art, and Mobility

  • James Best's Latest Scenario

  • Artists in the Pandemic, Part 4: Samuel Evensen, painter

  • Artists in the Pandemic, Part 3: Susan Howe, poet

  • Artists in the Pandemic, Part 2: Deon Nielsen Price, composer

  • Artists in the Pandemic, Part 1: Introduction and Javen Tanner, playwright

  • Lisa DeSpain's Train to Fame

  • Steven L. Peck, Science, Fiction, and "King Leere"

  • Kent Christensen's Secrets of the Great Salt Lake

  • Seven at Sea With Erik and Emily Orton

2019 episodes

  • Jeremy Grimshaw: Gamelan, Bali, and BYU

  • The Come, Follow Me (Art Companion) and Jennifer Wilcox

  • Brian Kershisnik Is Looking for Something

  • Audacious Play: Sculptures by Page Turner

  • Two Journeys: Angie Denison's Documentaries of Amish Latter-day Saints and a Kidnapped Boy from India

  • Ethan Wickman's Oratorio, To a Village Called Emmaus

  • Laura Allred Hurtado: Her Years at the Church History Museum

  • Tade Biesinger on Broadway, the West End, and on a Mission

  • Lance Larsen's New Poems: What the Body Knows

  • Brontë Hebdon and the Church's Visual Culture

2018 episodes

  • Are There Anybody Here: The Music of David Fletcher

  • Onetwo moremons more: LDS Allusions in the Works of James Joyce, with Brigham Barnes

  • Opera and Ballet Teenagers at the Met: Ruby Gilmore and Addy Hawley

  • Richard Bushman and Farms, Families, and Faith

  • The Unknown Galaxy of Mormon Music with Scott Holden

  • The Extraordinary History of Mormon Cinema with Randy Astle

  • Hildebrando de Melo: Out of Angola

  • Trevor Reed and the Sovereignty of Sound

  • Joy and Terror in the Art of Annie Poon

  • Masterpieces That Might Have Been: The Life and Music of James W. McConkie