One artist’s legacy. Nine rotating disciplines.
The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts was established in 2021 to honor the legacy of distinguished mezzo-soprano Ariel Bybee (American, 1943-2018). Each year, the Endowment grants a prize/commission for the creation of new art or original scholarship by Latter-day Saints as a result of a call for submissions. The disciplines represented by the Endowment correspond to her career highlights and passions in one of these nine, rotating categories: opera, dance, scholarship, art songs, youth education, hymns, visual arts, collaborative arts, and choral music.
Annual Prizes
& Endowment winners
Click on each image to learn more about the selected artists and their winning projects.
Ethan Wickman, Utah, choral music 2026
Vanessa Cook, Switzerland, dance 2025
Mia Black, Utah, music education 2024
Susana and Gonzalo Silva, Argentina, visual art 2023
S. Andrew Lloyd, Texas, art songs 2022
Honoring her passion for music and its many intersections, the Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center annually invites submissions from Latter-day Saint artists and scholars in one of nine rotating categories inspired by her life and work. Watch Neylan McBaine announce the endowment, established in tribute to her mother.
THE LEGACY OF
The Endowment exists in perpetuity.
Annual prizes are funded by Endowment investment proceeds. We gratefully acknowledge donors to the Endowment, and we invite you to join them.
Thank you to Donors
of the Endowment:
The Foulger Family Foundation
JP and Emily Hanson
Neylan McBaine
The Sorenson Legacy Foundation
Judith Stewart Legacy Fund
Linda S Daines
The McBaine Family Fund
Anne-Marie Wright Lampropoulos
Glen and Marcia Nelson
Scowcroft Family Charitable Fund
Kenneth G. Shelley
Anonymous
Chad and Kristin Christensen
Scott and Jesselie Anderson
Nicole and Brooks Brady
Richard and Claudia Bushman
David and Doria Bybee
Kent Christensen
Mike and Angie Denison
Linda and Richard Eyre
Joe and Claudia Jensen
Nina Johnston, in memory of Phyliss Liljenquist Leishman
Michael and Stephanie Percival, and Diana Anderson
Walter and Marily Rudolph
Anonymous
Roger and Kathryn Carter
Ian Christensen
The Dolan Family
Anne Sheedy Gardner
Jon & Karen Green
Marilee Jacobsen Moe and Jon Moe
Erin Morley
Brian E. Powell
Carolyn and Boyd Richards
John and Helen Stone
Rosalie Stone
Sariah Toronto
Mary Astrid Tuminez and Jeffrey S. Tolk
Anonymous (2)
Jonathan and Cynthia Austin
Darrell and Jenny Babidge
David and Natalie Bean
Judy Billeter
Debra Bigham and Kent Hamilton
Murray and Susan Boren
Serge Bushman and Patricia Shelley Bushman
Cindy Butikofer
Linda and Rob Etherington
Jillaine Hadfield
Kate Handley
Nancy Heuston
Whitney Johnson
Greg and Cynthia Kofford
Milo Lee
Carolyn B. Mackenzie
Jamie and Mark Peterson
Charles Randall and Jann Paul
Jacquelynn Sokol
Robert and Shauna Valentine