Producing & Inspiring
Latter-day Saint Art
Grants, Awards, & Open Calls
The Center believes in fostering a richer landscape of faith-informed art by awarding grants to Latter-day Saint Artists to produce original work. Since its founding, the Center has proudly funded new works in literature, visual art, music, dance, and more. Learn about any current open calls and explore some of the Center’s previous grant programs by artists of all disciplines.
There are currently no open calls from the Center.
However, we’re always eager to hear from you. Send us an email and introduce yourself–or give us an update on what you’re working on.
Open Calls
The Center is always looking for work to share with our global audience through our digital platforms. Artists can submit up to five works yearly to be considered for things like our weekly featured artwork, blog, and Come, Follow Me (Art Companion). We encourage artists of all styles, ages, backgrounds, and places to submit to be featured.
Visual Art: Submit to be Featured
Annual Grant Programs
This annual prize rotates through nine artistic categories, making each annual call-for-submissions unique.
The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center
Since 2022
Past Grant Programs
A grant program that awarded twenty grants to LDS, BIPOC artists and scholars to create new, original works. Completed pieces were exhibited in the Conference Center on Temple Square during the I Am cultural arts festival is 2021.
I Am…
2021
A series of fifty grants awarded to artists to continue creating in unprecedented times. The call resulted in works of literature, scholarship, dance, film, music, and visual art.
Art for Uncertain Times
2020
A special grant program for young artists to express their experiences and feelings during a period of concern and uncertainty. 42 grants were given to artists of all ages.
Art for Uncertain Times: Next Generation
2020
Baucis & Philemon
2019Originally awarded in 2019, Steven Ricks developed a multi-disciplinary opera inspired by a story from Greek mythology. The opera’s 2023 premiere on Youtube.