SMA unframed

We are pleased to invite you to a special SMA Unframed at the Springville Museum of Art. As part of the 38th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, on November 13, 7:00-9:00pm we will host the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts on the occasion of their landmark publication, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader, published by Oxford University Press. Five of the book’s authors will offer short presentations about their work, followed by Q&A and a social gathering with light refreshments.

 Wednesday November 13th, 7:00-9:00pm, Free and Open to the Public 

Featured Authors:

Jennifer Reeder- "Making Something Extraordinary: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women and Their Folk Art."

Heather Belnap- "Globetrotting Mormon Women Artists and the Art of Travel, 1900-1950."

James Swensen- "Defining the Mormon Landscape: Photography and the Representation and Evolution of a Distinctive American Space." 

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- "An Afterword: A Culture (and Its Artifacts) in Search of Self."