Work & Wonder: Two Centuries of Latter-day Saint Art Retrospective Exhibition
Emily Larsen, “Work and Wonder Traces Faith and Form in Latter-day Saint Art,” 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine (February 21, 2025)
David Noyce, “Large Art Show Opens,” The Salt Lake Tribune (October 3, 2024)
“‘An International Testimony Meeting’ Through Art Now Open at the Church History Museum,” Church News (October 1, 2024)
Jacob Hess, “200 Years of Latter-day Saint Art: New Exhibit Paints the Picture of Global Faith,” Deseret News (September 30, 2024)
“Church History Museum Opens New Exhibition Honoring 200 Years of Latter-day Saint Art,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom (September 30, 2024).
“Work & Wonder: The Curators’ Interview,” The Center’s Studio Podcast, Season 7, Episode 10 (September 26, 2024).
Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary Latter-day Saint Art Exhibition
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader
Chapter. “Globetrotting Mormon Women Artists and the Art of Travel, c. 1900-1950,” An Anthology of Mormon Art, eds. Amanda Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 199-226. Special citation from the Association for Mormon Letters, 2025.
Variations in Christian Art: Mennonite, Mormon, Quaker & Swedenborgian
Book section. “The Mormon-LDS Art Tradition” in Variations in Christian Art. Ed. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2024. 77-168.
Minerva Teichert for Introduction to Mormon Thought series
Monograph. Minerva Teichert: Modernist Mormon Artist. For Introduction to Mormon Thought series (eds. Matthew Bowman and Joseph Spencer). Under contract with University of Illinois Press. Target publication date: 2027.
List of Publications
Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-century France. With Corry Cropper and Daryl Lee (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, October 2022). Winner of the John Whitmer Historical Association 2023 Best Book Award.
“’Sure A Strong Devil’: A. B. Wright, Mabel Frazer, and the Making of the 1937 Sexual Misconduct Case at the University of Utah.” With Emily Larsen. Utah Historical Quarterly 90, no. 3 (Summer 2022). Winner of the 2023 Best Article in Women’s History award from the Mormon History Association.
“Pioneering Women: Lessons from Paris and the Making of an Art Scene in the American West, 1890-1940,” Proceedings from Faire oeuvre: La formation et la professionalisation des artistes femmes aux XIX et XXe siècles, colloque international, sponsored by AWARE (Archive of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibition), in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou, September 2019. Paris: AWARE Association, 2023.
“Aesthetic Evangelism, Artistic Sisterhood, and the Gospel of Beauty: Mormon Women Artists at Home and Abroad, c. 1890-1920.” Beyond Biography: Sources and Contexts for Mormon Women’s History. Eds. Rachel Cope, Amy Easton-Flake, Keith Erekson, and Lisa Olsen Tait. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2017. 141-66.
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition curator (with Ashlee Whitaker Evans and Bronte Hebdon). “Work and Wonder: Two Hundred Years of Latter-day Saint Art,” a retrospective organized by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 26, 2024—March 1, 2025.
Exhibition curator (with Ashlee Whitaker Evans and Bronte Hebdon). “Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary Latter-Day Saint Art,” organized by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. Mesa Art Center, Mesa, Arizona, May 10, 2024—August 4, 2024.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“Le Phénomène Mormon: The Popular Press on the 1920s Mormon Invasion of France,” 58th annual Mormon History Association conference, Rochester, NY, June 2023.
“Pioneers in Paris: Educating Utah Saints in the City of Light, 1850-1914,” BYU Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Lecture, Provo, Utah, November 17, 2022.
“Minerva Teichert’s Native Americans Paintings and the Art of Benevolent Racism,” 57th annual Mormon History Association conference, Logan, UT, June 2022.
“Towards a Mormon Iconography: LDS Women Writing on Art and Aesthetics, c.1900-1950,” Annual Mormon Scholars in the Humanities conference, Oxford, England, March 25-27, 2022.
“Bathsheba W. Smith, Alice Merrill Horne, and the Establishment of a Zion Art Dynasty,” Annual Mormon History Association conference, Rochester, New York, June 10-11, 2021.
“’Sure A Strong Devil’: A. B. Wright, Mabel Frazer, and the Making of the 1937 Sexual Misconduct Case at the University of Utah” (with Emily Larsen), Annual Mormon History Association conference, Park City, Utah, June 10-11, 2021.
“Women and the Establishment of Art in Zion, 1880-1950,” Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, March 24, 2021.
“Pioneering Women: Lessons from Paris and the Making of an Art Scene in the American West, 1890-1940,” Faire oeuvre: La formation et la professionalisation des artistes femmes aux XIXetXXe siècles, colloque international. Sponsored byAWARE: Archive of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibition, in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou, September 2019.
“Dressing the Mormoness: The Perils of French Fashion for Mormon Women.” Decentering Mormonism. Sponsored by Global Mormon Studies collective. Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, March 2019.
“Pioneering Painters: Utah Women’s Artists at Home and Abroad.” The Utah Valley Historical Society, Provo City Library, March 12, 2019.
“Romantic Socialism, La Nouvelle Femme, and Representations of Mormon Women in Nineteenth-Century French Art and Literature.” 51st Annual Mormon History Association conference, Snowbird, Utah, June 2016.
“The Rocky Mountain Picture Show, or the Mormons in the Nineteenth-Century French Visual Imaginary.” 40th annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2014.
“Artistic Frontiers: Mormon Women Artists in Paris, c. 1900, 39th annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium, Richmond, Virginia, October 2013.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
“BEHOLD: Episode 10 (2 Nephi 20-25),” Book of Mormon Art Catalog 4 March 2024
“Heather Belnap on Minerva Teichert’s Queen Esther,” Book of Mormon Art Catalog 3 February 2023
“Imagery of the Divine Feminine.” With Sarah Coyne. For Certain Women 2021 Art Exhibition. Anthony Fine Arts & Antiques, October 15, 2021.
“Megan Knobloch Geilman Pietà and the Search for Gyneaologies,” Art & Belief Symposium, sponsored by the Center for LDS Arts, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, September 24, 2021.
“Visionary Women and the Making of LDS Art and Aesthetics in the Progressive Era,” The Center for LDS Art Regional Festival, Dallas, February 7-8, 2020.
“Seeking Heavenly Mother: An Evening with Heather Belnap and Sarah Coyne,” Mission Viejo, California LDS Institute, May 4, 2021.
“Visionary Women and the Making of LDS Art and Aesthetics in the Progressive Era.” The Center for LDS Art Regional Festival, Dallas, February 7-8, 2020.
Certain Women exhibition panel discussion, Second annual exhibition of Contemporary LDS Women Artists, The Zion Art Society, Anthony’s Antiques, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2019.
“Mormon Women Artists and the Gospel of Beauty.” Keynote speaker for induction ceremony for 2019 Global Women’s Studies Honor Society, October 3, 2019.
Certain Women exhibition panel discussion. First annual exhibition of Contemporary LDS Women Artists, The Zion Art Society, Anthony’s Antiques, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2018.
“This is What a Mormon Looks Like(?): Mormonism in 19th c. French Visual Culture,” Keynote speaker for Pi Delta Phi Initiation ceremony, Brigham Young University, March 23, 2017.
MUSEUM/GALLERY WORK
Guest Curator. Brave Like Eve: Certain Women: A Latter-day Saint Women’s Art Show, Bountiful Davis Art Center, January 16-March 27, 2026.
Juror. Book of Mormon Catalog Student Art Competition, Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, August 2023.
Juror. 12th Annual LDS International Art Competition, Church Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, June-October 2021.
Juror. Certain Women 2021 Art Exhibition, Anthony Fine Arts & Antiques, Salt Lake City, October 2021.
“Mormon Women Artists Abroad.” The Zion Art Society, Salt Lake City, September 23, 2017.
Juror. “Certain Women: Statements of Purpose, A Latter-day Saint Women’s Art Show,” The Zion Art Society, Anthony’s Antiques, Salt Lake City, October 4-November 9, 2019.
HEATHER BELNAP, PH.D. 