Journal
Mormon Easter
Circular folded tables, white tablecloths, and textured walls are materials common to most Latter-day Saint chapels, but here Rupard uses them to visualize a scene from the New Testament, where the stone is rolled away from the sepulcher made to reveal Christ’s empty tomb on Easter morning.
To Think About Jesus
What art do you keep in your home that reminds you of Jesus Christ?
For this Easter season, we invited a few friends of the Center to reflect on that question by sharing a work of art that lives in their everyday space and to tell us why it matters to them.
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.
Remembering President Nelson Through His Words
President Russell M. Nelson’s prophetic ministry was filled with invitations to rise higher, love deeper, and see farther. Again and again, he pointed all to Jesus Christ and reminded us that our choices here and now shape our future. His counsel was both bold and tender, urging all to anchor themselves in truth. Among his many teachings, five stand out as guiding lights for our day.
Speaking over Silence: A Conversation with Susana Silva & Gonzalo Silva
On August 5, 2025, Argentine artists and siblings Susana and Gonzalo Silva opened their first collaborative art show, Instrumentos de silencio, at Sargent’s’ Daughters, a gallery in lower Manhattan. Throughout the evening, visitors peered close to see the intricate details of Susana’s geometric paper cutting and Gonzalo’s photography and 3-D printed works, all of which explore themes of language, translation, technology, and the role of those modes in preserving the stories of communities across time and space in warm hues of red, silver, orange, black, and gold.
