Office Hours

How would you like a one-on-one session with an expert to talk about your work? Office Hours is a personalized opportunity to discuss specific issues you are facing in the creation of work in any artistic discipline.

January - Glen Nelson

Book a 45-minute session for January 23, 2026 to 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.

  • 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

FAQs

  • Using the calendar on this page, find the available date or dates, scroll through available times, and simply select one. You’ll fill out a short form about yourself and your goals for the session. That’s it. 

  • Appointments for Office Hours will be available on the first day of each month at noon, ET.

  • In advance of your session, the expert will review your stated goals and take a look at your body of work (via your website or social media feed). During your time together, you’ll discuss whatever you want to explore. It can be anything you need it to be.

  • The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts serves artists in our community. For now, let’s give artists who self-identify as LDS in some way the opportunity first.

  • Making art can be isolating. All artists want to get better at what they do. We all need a little help. The Center has always worked with creative LDS artists of every kind, from all over the world, in order to provide support and guidance. Office Hours is simply a way for us to connect individually and specifically with you. 

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