Journal
A More Participatory Easter
Observing Holy Week and celebrating the Christian liturgical calendar is still a little unfamiliar to many Latter-day Saints. With a greater emphasis on Easter and the days leading up to it in the past few years, you (and your ward) might be looking for ways to mark the events of Holy Week—and how to make them your own.
Four Artists, One Studio—Collaborating at the Artists Residency
On the third day of last year’s Residency, four artists from the cohort—choreographer Thayer Jonutz, visual artists Zinta Jaunitis and Jackie Leishman, and composer David Jones—gathered in Thayer’s dance studio for an impromptu collaboration. Thayer danced sections of his new work Scorched while David improvised on the French horn. At the back of the studio, Zinta and Jackie responded by sketching the movement as it unfolded.
Black Pioneer: Mauli Bonner on Championing the Stories of Early Black Saints
You think pioneer day or the pioneer trek, you don't think of one, Black folks, and two, an enslaved 19-year old, the same age as our missionaries that go out, driving the first wagon. And it follows his life and helps us learn of the enslaved experience in the early Church. The film though, is on Amazon Prime under Black Pioneer. So if you're looking to go check it out, it would be Black Pioneer on Amazon Prime or His Name Is Green Flake if you go to like Deseret Book.
10 Works You Should Know: Maddie Blonquist
As the the Spiritual and Religious Curator at the BYU Museum of Art, Maddie Blonquist approaches her work with both familiarity and discovery.
She recently oversaw the creation of BYU MOA’s Earthbound and Heavenward, an exhibition organized around what Christian tradition often calls a “sacred distance”: the felt space between who we are and who we hope to become. Across more than five hundred years of art, Earthbound and Heavenward traces how artists have wrestled with that distance—and, just as often, how they have discovered heaven pressing close through ordinary gestures, domestic scenes, and quiet acts of attention.
Out of Ashes: An Artist’s Witness from Grand Blanc
After a life-changing residency in New York, one choreographer’s dance became a meditation on loss, faith, and the ashes left behind after a tragedy in Grand Blanc, Michigan.