The Center's Studio Podcast

The fourth-annual Artists Residency at the Center is now in the record books. The six artists: Meg Dodini (choreography), Jamal Qureshi (visual art), Emily Pack (music), Laura Hatch (poetry), Camille Charbonneau (visual art), and Tyler Gathro (visual art) introduce themselves, talk about their projects undertaken during the Residency, and describe the impact of the week on their lives and work. Have you thought about applying? Glen Nelson shares information about the 2027 Residency. Music: "P...

Following the success at the Metropolitan Opera house of his beloved oratorio, Lamb of God, earlier this year, Rob Gardner talks with guest host, composer Benjamin Taylor, about his ways of writing music, from first ideas and deadlines to orchestration choices, lyrics, and why the best idea is often the first instinct. They uncover how the oratorio began years before it was written, why deadlines are essential to finishing a new work, and how Gardner uses sketches, voice memos, cryptograms, L...

More than an early figure in Mormon frontier painting, C.C.A. Christensen helped to invent the visual language of Latter-day Saint history and theology. In this interview on the occasion of her new book on Christensen, art historian Jennifer Champoux reveals how the Danish artist’s Mormon history panoramas, Book of Mormon paintings, missionary images, and Scandinavian paintings and writings shaped Mormon memory, gospel teachings, and identity in surprising and under-appreciated ways. Music: "...

This episode features an interview with the editors Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards about their new book, Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory. They discuss why public speaking is central to Latter-day Saint life, how touchstone speeches from the 19th century to the present tell the story of the LDS people, and why they remain essential reading and relevant today. For a 30% discount for the book, use the code: S26UIP at the publisher’s website: https://www.pr...

Part 1. Why We Make Art - We celebrate our 100th monthly episode with a survey of special moments from our history. This first of four episodes, Why We Make Art, is a sampler of a few stories of artists and why they create or in some way a description of trying to see the big picture. These stories come from painters Brian Kershisnik and Fidalis Buehler, scholars Mason Kamana Allred and Amanda Beardsley, dancer/choreographer Lisa Hess Jones, and artist/animator Annie Poon. I wanted to share s...