The Burning Hope of Artist Collin Bradford
Description
Artist Collin Bradford makes video, sound, photography, sculpture, and other media. In this interview, the incoming art department chair at Brigham Young University discusses his work, how art speaks directly to the brain through the senses, and his work as a reflection of concerns about the future. His video installation, A Burning Hope (2021) is part of the museum exhibition, Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary Latter-day Saint Art, organized by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, which is at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, and the artist describes the making of the video and potential interpretations of it. Finally, Bradford discusses the future and how students embody a new sensibility of sincerity and intensity in their art making.
United States
