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 Awards
Endowment winners through the years
Click on each image to learn more about the selected artists and their winning projects.
Vanessa Cook, Switzerland, dance 2025
Mia Black, music education 2024
Susana and Gonzalo Silva, visual art 2023
S. Andrew Lloyd, art songs 2024
The 2026 call for submissions and associated artistic discpline will be announced in November, 2026.
The 2026 Award
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.
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