Another First Vision lecture! On Sunday night, Eric Jepson gave a lecture entitled Triangulating God as part of the Oakland Stake First Vision Lecture Series. He included First Vision VIII (at around 15:16), First Vision XIII (at around 34:08), and First Vision VI (at around 35:57). I haven’t watched the whole talk yet (same story, I know), but I’m looking forward to it.
Last night Richard L. Bushman gave a Center for Latter-day Saint Arts Zoom keynote:
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Restoration of the Gospel, foremost scholar and historian of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Richard Bushman shares the art of the First Vision. He addresses this seminal event in the Latter-day Saint faith tradition as it has been visually represented from artists all over the globe. Bushman also answers questions about why the arts are significant to revelatory development.
With my permission (though with the artwork’s Creative Commons license it wasn’t actually necessary), he included my Let Him Ask of God piece at the end of his talk. That part starts around 29:54. (I haven’t watched the whole thing yet — it just got uploaded an hour or so ago — but I’m very much looking forward to it.)
New artwork: Love at Home.
I’ve been enjoying Emily McQueen’s The Green Hymnbook project (@greenhymnbook) — typewritten hymn texts with lovely linocut illustrations underneath.
New artwork: Prodigal Son.
Pleased to announced that Let Him Ask of God is on the cover of issue 59:2 of the BYU Studies Quarterly journal:
The painting also gets a mention in one of the articles, Anthony Sweat’s Visualizing the Vision: The History and Future of First Vision Art. Recommended.
New artwork: The Lord’s Passover.
Also, this one wasn’t digital. (Acrylic on canvas board.) Definitely a different experience.
New artwork: Mine Angels Round About You.
Two new pieces of art: Pressing Forward (from Lehi’s vision) and New and Everlasting.
New artwork: The Millennium.