Scholarship published in Deseret String Quartet concert program at the Mormon Arts Center Festival (2017) about the works of Merrill Bradshaw, Francisco Estévez, Lisa DeSpain, Neil Thornock, and Ethan Wickman

“Joseph Paul Vorst and Political Art of the Great Depression” (2017)

Article and lecture

Published in The Kimball Challenge at Fifty: Mormon Arts Center Essays (2017)

Also given as a presentation at the first Mormon Arts Center Festival, held at Riverside Church, New York City

“What Is Mormon Art, Anyway?” (2017)

Essay

Published in Mormon Arts Center Festival magazine 2017

An attempt at an inclusive definition of “Mormon art”

“One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God” (2016)

Review of the book by Ashley Mae Hoiland, published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Winter 2016)

“Mormon Masterworks of the 21st Century” (2016)

Essay published online, Square Two, vol. 9 No. 3 (Fall 2016)

Ten noteworthy contemporary musical works described, composed by Leilei Tian, Francisco Estévez, Lansing McLoskey, Trevor Reed, Lisa DeSpain, Daniel Bradshaw, Igor Coelho Arantes Santana Marques, Janice Kapp Perry, and Benjamin Sabey

“The Skinny Guy Joins a Gym” (2012)

Essay

Personal reflections after becoming fit for the first time in years

“Raising Children in New York” (2010)

Article for The New York LDS Historian, Spring, 2010

“Jazz-Age Cartoonery: John Held, Jr. and the New Yorker” (2010)

Article reprinted from “Glimpses” in Sunstone, September 2010

“Mormon Artists Group: Adventures in Art Making” (2006)

Cover story essay for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Fall 2006)

Behind-the-scenes stories and reflections on my Mormon Artists Group projects created from 2002 to 2006

Mormon Artists Group Glimpses (2006-2017)

Essays and articles sent as newsletter columns to subscribers, often with original research:

2006 - “Onstage and on the Page” (2006)

2007 - “Feats of Mormon Clay” (2007), “Mormon Arts Literacy Quiz” (2007), “Success and Feeling Guilty About It” (2007)

2008 - “Mormon Arts Literacy Quiz” (2008), “Mormon Jazz Age Cartoonery—John Held, Jr.” (2008, republished in Sunstone as “Mormon Jazz Age Cartoonery: John Held, Jr. and The New Yorker,” 2010), “Mormon Art in Downtown Chicago” (2008), “The 2043 Hymnbook” (2008, reprinted in Keepapitchinin), “Boundless Light—Music of Steve Ricks” (2008)

2009 - “Mormons, Opera, and Mormon Operas” (2009), “Perfect Penmanship—David Oscarson” (2009), “Chocolate Is the New Jell-O- Amano Chocolatier” (2009), "A Séance in the Mormon Tabernacle: Art and

Spiritualism of Natacha Rambova” (2009), “Mahonri Young and the Natives” (2009), “As Told By” (2009)

2010 - “Hildebrando de Melo” (2010), “David Chapman Lindsay” (2010), “How to Commission Music” (2010), “Sudden Music: From Page to Stage” (2010)

2011 - “James T. Harwood, Mormon Artists, and the Julian Academy in Paris” (2011), “Through Death Valley; or The Mormon Peril” (2011), “An Open Letter to Mormon American Artists: Your Place in the White House” (2011), “Elders on Broadway: My Thoughts About The Book of Mormon, the Musical” (2011), “Royce Campbell Twitchell” (2011), “Capturing Temple Photographs: An Interview with David Sidwell” (2011), “Hiding in Plain Sight: William Dean Fausett” (2011)

2012 - “Following Greatness: La Monte Young” (2012), “Digging Up the Pasha’s Garden” (2012), “The Adoration of Ages” (2012)

2013 - “Samuel Jepperson, Provo Primitive” (2013, reprinted in Keepapitchinin, 2015)

2014 - “Songs of Joel” (2014), “Ultra Violet Has Passed Away” (2014), “Hitler and Mormon Art” (2014, reprinted in Keepaptichinin), “The Mystery of Lot Number 106” (2014), “Henry Lavender Adolphus Culmer” (2014) 2015 - “Artists Books” (2015), “In Search of Ramon Conrad Fuller” (2015), "A Mormon Art Juror: Some Lessons from the 10th International” (2015), reprinted in The Krackens as “Glen Nelson: A Mormon Juror” (2015)

2016 - “Bob Cundick in New York” (2016), “Where Are All the Mormon Critics?” (2016)

2017 - “In the Abstract—George Smith Dibble” (2017)

The Book of Gold Libretto (2005)

Libretto of the opera along with a with personal essay, published by Mormon Arts and Letters on the occasion of the opera’s premiere

“How I Got Here” (2004)

Essay

Short reflection on living in New York City

“The Mormon Arts Magnet: The Creative and Performing Arts on 57th Street” (2004)

Article about LDS history for The New York LDS Historian

City Saints: Mormons in the New York Metropolis (2004)

Four articles in a nonfiction volume written by multiple authors of the New York New York Stake History Committee and published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding the LDS stake in the city

“A Portrait of Latter-day Saint Art,” “The Legacy of New York City in LDS Art and Sculpture – 1917-1964,” “Manhattan LDS Artists into the 21st Century,” and “Only in New York”

Articles also published separately in the newsletter, The New York LDS Historian

Silent Notes Taken (2002)

Two essays in a collection of personal essays written by LDS New Yorkers after 9/11 in the limited edition Mormon Artists Group volume Silent Notes Taken, later issued as a commercial paperback by Mormon Arts and Letters

“A Mormon Montmartre,” “Glioblastoma Multiforme”

“Korean Opera Singer” (2001)

Article published in Ensign (March 2001)

Profile of the Korean opera singer, Hans Choi

“Why Are Opera Singers Crazy?” (1998)

Essay for BYU concert of The Singer’s Romance Printed in the concert program

“Growing in Brooklyn” (1991)

Article published in New Era (May 1991)

Profile of LDS youth living in Brooklyn