Office Hours
A personalized opportunity to discuss specific issues you are facing in the creation of work in any artistic discipline.
Here, artists can get personalized, one-on-one time with an expert to talk about their artistic work.
Book a 45-minute session to discuss anything about your work and career development with a mentor or expert. The Centers offers a limited number of appointments on the first of every month with the Center’s co-founder and special projects director, Glen Nelson.
Each new month will also introduce appointments with an additional expert from the Center’s board—bringing fresh perspectives, disciplines, and valuable experience into the conversation.
New appointments become available on the first of the month. We ask that artists only book a single appointment with one mentor per year so that we can allow many artists the same opportunity.
MENTORS
Glen Nelson
Appointments: Friday, May 15th
Discuss anything about your work and career development with the author, scholar, curator, librettist, art collector, and recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Mormon Letters.
Five sessions are available. English and limited Spanish.
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Glen Nelson is the author of: 34 books; 137 essays, articles, and interviews; 22 works of fiction, theater, and poetry; the librettist of 8 operas and 22 choral works, art songs, and hymns. He received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Mormon Letters “as a facilitator of others’ work and as an author and artist himself.” As a ghostwriter, three of his books have become nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. He curated the museum exhibition, John Held, Jr. (Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 2024-25) and three gallery exhibitions, each with an accompanying exhibition catalog. His most recent book is John Held, Jr.’s Fiction (Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, 2022). His latest recording, with composer Ethan Wickman, is the oratorio, To a Village Called Emmaus (American Festival Orchestra and Chorus, 2023), and his most recent opera, with Grammy Award-winning composer Lansing McLoskey, is The Captivity of Hannah Duston (Guerilla Opera, 2025), recipient of a 2024 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. He is a contributing author to Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2024) and The Difficult Part, Brian Kershisnik: A Mid-career Retrospective (BYU MOA, 2024). He is the co-founder of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts and is its Director of Special Projects. www.glen-nelson.com
Mason Kaman Allred
Appointments: Thursday, May 14th
Discuss film, media, and making your way in academia with Mason Kamana Allred, Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Culture at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. Artists and scholars can talk with him about navigating academic opportunities (graduate school and early- to mid-career pathways, publishing, and pedagogy), media and film work, elevating Pacific Islander voices and perspectives, or even just navigating faith and life.
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Mason Kamana Allred is an Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Culture at Brigham Young University–Hawaii. He earned his MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity (Routledge, 2017) and Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism (University of North Carolina, 2023). His interdisciplinary work has also appeared in venues such as JAAR, Jewish Studies Quarterly, Material Religion and Film History.
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