The Center's Studio Podcast
The official podcast of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts with interviews of artists and scholars on topics of art with host Glen Nelson.
The Center's Studio Podcast
Latest Episodes
Lamb of God Composer Rob Gardner in Conversation with Benjamin Taylor
Following the success at the Metropolitan Opera house of his beloved oratorio, Lamb of God, earlier this year, Rob Gardner talks with guest host, composer Benjamin Taylor, about his ways of writing music, from first ideas and deadlines...
C. C. A. Christensen and the Shaping of LDS Visual Culture
More than an early figure in Mormon frontier painting, C.C.A. Christensen helped to invent the visual language of Latter-day Saint history and theology. In this interview on the occasion of her new book on Christensen, art historian Jennifer Ch...
Latter-day Eloquence and the Power of Mormon Oratory
This episode features an interview with the editors Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards about their new book, Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory. They discuss why public speaking is central to Latter-day...
The Center’s Studio Podcast’s 100th Episode: An Audio Exhibition, Pt. 1
Part 1. Why We Make Art - We celebrate our 100th monthly episode with a survey of special moments from our history. This first of four episodes, Why We Make Art, is a sampler of a few stories of artists and why they create or in some way a desc...
The Center’s Studio Podcast’s 100th Episode: An Audio Exhibition, Pt. 2
Part 2. Moments of Faith - This second celebratory episode of our 100th podcast includes six conversations with artists and includes intimate stories with a spiritual touch: Historian Richard Bushman in New York, then choreographer Vanessa Cook...