Meet the 2025 Residents

The Center is delighted to announce the six artists selected for the third annual Artists Residency at the Center, taking place this September in New York City. Please join us in congratulating these remarkable artists whose work spans artistic disciplines and continents. Learn more about each resident by clicking on their photo below.

About the Program

The purpose of the Residency is simple: To help the artist make their best work. Each year, the Center brings a group of artists (writers, composers, choreographers, designers, architects, filmmakers, and visual artists) to New York. Artists soak in the city’s abundance, have dedicated time to work on new projects, and form a community with other Latter-day Saint artists.

The Residency offers a tailor-made experience for each participant's creative and professional development. Those interested will describe the project they intend to work on in their application materials, and the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts will curate workspaces to facilitate the participants' specific needs. (For instance, a composer may work in a Juilliard practice studio while a painter requires a sunlit studio in SoHo. We are interested in artists who are working at all stages of their career).

Selected artists will receive travel to and from New York City, living accommodations, tickets to curated group and individual events and entertainment, and a daily stipend to cover food and travel in the city for those accepted to the Residency.

A key feature of the Artists Residency is the community built between cohort members throughout the week of their stay. In addition to their individual time working, artists-in-residence bond over meals, outings, and end-of-day gatherings and share their ideas and experiences together.

What’s in store at the Residency?

This special program is designed to bring six LDS artists to the heart of New York City to create at the intersection of cultural relevance and divine creativity.

Get Residency Resources

Check out our youtube playlist, special podcast episode, and get tips for preparing your portfolio and application.

Can a residency in the nation’s art capital of one week change an artist’s life? Of course it can, but it probably won’t take the full week to do it.
— Glen Nelson, Center co-founder, dir. of special projects

Meet the Artists of Past Cohorts

2023 | 2024

The 2024 Residents

Meet the six artists of the 2nd annual Residency at the Center, October 9-14, 2024. They were chosen by a notable jury: Tacey M. Atsitty, Richard Bushman, Rose Datoc Dall, Nancy Heuston, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Jared Oaks, and Aaron Toronto.

Meet the artists and discover their works, below.

The 2023 Residents

Six artists comprised the inaugural cohort of the Residency, October 15-22, 2023. They were selected by a notable jury: Sheri Dew, Stanley Hainsworth, Melissa Leilani Larsen, Lance Larsen, Deon Nielsen Price, Walter Rane, and Ricardo Rendón.

Meet the artists and discover their works, below.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the many people who have provided assistance for the Residency, including the Center’s donors.

2023:

Application screeners

Guest speakers: Tara Bench, Allyson Chard, Walter Rane, and Joël René Scoville

Host: Stanley Hainsworth

Residency photographer: Sam Zauscher

Marketing and communications: Emily Larsen Doxford

Illustration: Isabelle Walton

Special event donors: Georgia and Warren Blosil family

2024:

Application screeners

Guest speakers: Richard and Claudia Bushman, Stanley Hainsworth, Walter Rane

Residency filmmaker: Chris Moore

Residency photographer: Veronica Harvey

Residency headshots: James Ransom

For the Center:

Mykal Urbina, executive director

Richard L. Bushman, emeritus chairman of the board

Stanley Hainsworth, chairman of the board

Glen Nelson, director of special projects

Veronica Harvey, director of marketing & communications

Emily Spung, residency project manager

Ron Schneider, finances