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"I Am Jane" playing in Provo July 22-23

I Am Jane is Margaret Blair Young’s award-winning stage play about Jane Manning James, an early black LDS pioneer who survived the mobs at Nauvoo, the westward trek to the Salt Lake Valley and the societal prejudices of an unforgiving era with unyielding faith, courage, and tolerance. Historically accurate, the play explores the challenges Jane and other black Mormons faced within the LDS Church, especially during the settlement and establishment of what is now Utah.

For an extensive review by Mahonri Stewart, see A Motley Vision: http://www.motleyvision.org/2010/margaret-blair-youngs-_i-am-jane_-a-truly-important-play/

For thoughts from the playwright, see Dawning of a Brighter Day: http://blog.mormonletters.org/post/2010/06/06/I-Am-Jane-%28with-a-little-Levinas%29.aspx

For tickets, visit http://www.coveycenter.org

 

Issue 10 now available

Issue 10 is out! (And from now on we won't be this late getting issues out, I promise.) This one has interviews with Rachel Ann Nunes, Patricia Karamesines, Sam Nielson, Dan McDonald, Rob Cox, and James Arrington.

http://mormonartist.net/issue-10/

 

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We'd like to make Mormon Artist better, and so we've put together a short three-question survey for you, our readers. If you've got a couple minutes to jot down a response (and it doesn't have to be a long one), here's the link:

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Issue 9 now available

Issue 9 of Mormon Artist is now up: http://mormonartist.net/issue-9/

This is our special New York City issue, featuring interviews with Glen Nelson, Brett Helquist, Kent Christensen, Annie Poon, Kah Leong Poon, Samuel Evensen, Marin Leggat, Nathan Bowen, Erik Orton, and Scott Reynolds. It also features photography from Natasha Layne Brien and Zack Taylor and an article on the New York Stake Arts Festival by Marin Leggat.

 

A Flickering

If you're in the Provo area, be sure to check out Melissa Leilani Larson's new play A Flickering, which closes this weekend.

 
Quoting from the press release: "Set against the turbulent early twentieth century, A Flickering is the story of a young woman, Max Edwards, trying to break into the infant movie industry while her best friend, Samantha, is on her way to a theatrical acting career. Controversy fuels the success of Max’s first picture, but at the risk of Samantha’s reputation — and their friendship."
 
When: Friday @ 7:30pm, Saturday @ 2:30pm and 7:30pm, and Monday @ 7:30 pm
Where: 105 E 100 N, Provo, UT
How much: $12 general, $10 student/senior
Photos: A Flickering
 

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This is the kind of April Fools Day joke we like to see.

Filed under: Holidays
 

News: Association for Mormon Letters annual meeting report

From the Association for Mormon Letters:

AML is pleased to announce that Margaret Blair Young has taken office as the new AML President, with J. Scott Bronson as President-Elect. Boyd Petersen, last year's president, will now serve a term as Past President. Other new members of the board are Phillip Snyder and Charles Swift. James Goldberg and Eric Samuelsen will continue on the board. Lynn Bronson has accepted the position as Treasurer, and Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury has a new title, Membership Secretary. Jacob Profitt continues to serve as webmaster and Darlene Young as secretary.

 

The 2009 AML Awards were also presented at the AML Annual Meeting at Utah Valley University on 27 February 2010.
 
Drama    
Melissa Leilani Larson for Little Happy Secrets
   
Film    
Jed Wells for Fire Creek
   
Honorary Lifetime Membership    
James D'Arc
   
Humor    
Elna Baker for The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
   
Memoir    
Kathryn Lynard Soper for The Year My Son and I Were Born
   
Novel    
Todd Robert Petersen for Rift
   
Novel Honorable Mention    
Jamie Ford for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
   
Online Writing    
Sandra Tayler for One Cobble at a Time
   
Poetry    
Lance Larsen for Backyard Alchemy
   
Publishing    
Christopher Bigelow for Zarahemla Books
   
Service to AML   
Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
   
Short Fiction    
Larry Menlove for "Path of Antelope, Pelican, and Moon"
   
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters    
Levi Peterson
   
Young Adult Literature    
Carol Lynch Williams for The Chosen One
 
The citations for the awards can be read on the AML website at
 
 
Just follow the links to each award page.
Filed under: events literature news writing
 

Cameron Moll: Colosseo (Second Update)

It looks like the section about Cameron in yesterday's post came a day too early. :)

   
Click here to download:
Cameron_Moll_Colosseo_Second_U.zip (1416 KB)

 

This morning, Cameron Moll officially launched ColosseoType.com to accompany the release of his newest typographic print Colosseo.

The site includes several added treats. There is a new companion poster of the glyphs Cameron painstakingly recreated from the work of the meticulous Italian calligrapher M. Giovambattista Palatino (yes, that Palatino). There are limited editons and signed prints of the poster, along with stock vectors of the glyphs. And, in an added bit of generosity, Cameron is providing a discount code for 10% off your entire order during the site's introductory week.

The content is beautiful, the site is wonderfully well designed (as can be expected from Cameron), and the photos of the poster are crisp, macro, and, to put it frankly, exquisitely droolworthy.

 

 

Filed under: design news typography updates visual & applied arts
 

A Quick Update

Okay, for no good reason, I've been sitting on these updates for a little while. Some are a few weeks old, but all are high quality.

 

Shaun Barrowes

photo via flickr.com

Shaun Barrowes's newest album, "Emotion Constellation", is currently available for pre-order on his blog.

He's currently touring abroad (Mexico last weekend; Italy, Ireland, and the UK later this month) and playing with all kinds of exciting people. So, feel free to give him some love and appreciation on his blog, his Twitter, or his Facebook fan page.

Note: Sorry this one is so late. If you hurry you can still get the three bonus tracks and the personally autographed copy with your order. The timeframe for pre-ordering the album ends tomorrow, March 9th (!).

 

Cameron Moll


photo via twitter.com

Cameron Moll has finally finished his newest typographic print, "Colosseo" (you know, the follow-up to this masterpiece), and it's even more impressive and beautiful than I had originally thought. Go ahead, grab a copy. Your walls will thank you. :)

Cameron has also redesigned, retooled, and revamped of his own slice of the web (as was necessitated by some pretty severe malware attacks in the past few weeks). He talks about the how, why, and what of it in today's blog post. The new design is smooth, clean, and running on Tumblr's blogging platform.

 

Scott Jarvie


photo via jarviedigital.com

I don't know where I've been or why I hadn't noticed it yet, but Scott Jarvie has done some wonderful things with his website(s) lately (with help from jR Customization). Feel free to go on over and visit him. Be sure to check out the his "Jarvie Window" shots; they're fun.

Scott is currently in Las Vegas for WPPI and he's seems to be having fun. Go say "hi" to him on Twitter. And don't forget about the photography classes he offers via JarvieU. (I plan to catch one of them soon, when I get around to it. ;) )

 

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Volunteering: photography editor and assistant editor

 As Mormon Artist expands, we've realized we need a few more volunteer editors to help manage things. Here's what we're looking for:

Photography Editor. The photo editor's main responsibilities will be (a) working with our photographers to get interviewee photos for articles and (b) gathering artwork to accompany articles. They'll need to have a good eye and be somewhat tech-savvy as far as image resolution and formats go.

Assistant Editor. The assistant editor will help our four section editors whenever they need assistance. Typical responsibilities will include (a) editing articles and (b) communicating with interviewers, writers, and other volunteers.

If you're interested, email editor at mormonartist dot net.

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