Critical Tensions: Latter-day Saint Art, Devotion, and Design

Friday, October 10th 2025, 1:00pm to 4:00pm
2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709

In this symposium, the GTU hosts experts on Latter-day Saint art to discuss diverse topics such as bodily representation in Latter-day Saint film, temple architecture and art, Latter-day Saint feminism and art, nineteenth-century women’s folk art, and the interface of Latter-day Saint artists with the wider art world. The panelists are all contributors to the recently published volume, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (eds. Amanda Beardsley and Mason Allred).

Moderator: Glen Nelson (Center for Latter-day Saint Art)

Panelists: Colleen McDannell (University of Utah), Amanda K. Beardsley (SDSU), Mason Kamana Allred (BYU-Hawaii), Jenny Reeder (LDS Church History Department), Josh Edward Probert (Independent Historian), Glen Nelson (Center for Latter-day Saint Art)