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Credit: oil sketch (2023) by Walter Rane

Dashiell John Nelson @ 21: A Memory Book (2020)

Nonfiction book, co-authored with Marcia Nelson

Self-published book written to commemorate Dash’s 21st birthday with everything we could remember about his life so far.

Art at Home (2020)

Multi-media visual art education course for children, teens/adults of 40 lessons on Art Creation, Art History, Art Criticism, and Aesthetics. Created for the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts with a grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and published online

“Your Musical Pedigree” (2019)

Oscarson lecture delivered October 10, 2019, BYU Department of Music

Lecture for BYU music students urging connections between themselves and other composers, with stories about the rediscoveries of James W. McConkie, Ramon Conrad Fuller, and Francisco Estévez, and a call for Latter-day Saint musicians to discover their musical heritage

The Center’s Studio Podcast (2018-present)

Interviews with artists and podcast transcriptions, the official podcast of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts

2018 - “Masterpieces That Might Have Been: The Life and Music of James W. McConkie” (March 2018), “Joy and Terror in the Art of Annie Poon” (April 2018), “Trevor Reed and the Soverignty of Sound” (May 2018), “Hildebrando de Melo: Out of Angola” (June 2018), “The Extraordinary History of Mormon Cinema with Randy Astle” (July 2018), “The Unknown Galaxy of Mormon Music with Scott Holden” (August 2018), “Richard Bushman and Farms, Families, and Faith” (September 2018), “Opera and Ballet Teenagers at the Met: Ruby Gilmore and Addy Hawley” (October 2018), “”Onetwo moremons more: LDS Allusions in the Works of James Joyce, with Brigham Barnes” (November 2018), “Are There Anybody Here: The Music of David Fletcher” (December 2018)

2019 - “Brontë Hebdon and the Church’s Visual Culture” (January 2019), “Lance Larsen’s New Poems: What the Body Knows” (February 2019), “The Writ and Vision of Brad Kramer: Gallerist and Community Builder” (March 2019), “Tade Biesinger on Broadway, the West End, and on a Mission” (April 2019), “Laura Allred Hurtado: Her Years at the Church History Museum” (May 2019), “Ethan Wickman’s Oratorio, To a Village Called Emmaus” (June 2019), “Two Journeys: Angie Denison’s Documentaries of Amish Latter-day Saints and a Kidnapped Boy from India” (July 2019), “Audacious Play: Sculptures by Page Turner” (August 2019), “Brian Kershisnik Is Looking for Something” (September 2019), “The Come, Follow Me (Art Companion) and Jennifer Wilcox” (October 2019), “Jeremy Grimshaw: Gamelan, Bali, and BYU” (November 2019), “Juilliard’s Opera Whisperer: Darrell Babidge” (December 2019)

2020 - “Seven at Sea with Erik and Emily Orton” (January 2020), “Kent Christensen’s Secrets of the Great Salt Lake” (February 2020), “Steven L. Peck, Science, Fiction, and ‘King Leere’” (March 2020), “Lisa DeSpain’s Train to Fame” (April 2020), “Artists in the Pandemic: Javen Tanner (playwright), Deon Nielsen Price (composer), Susan Howe (poet), and Samuel Evensen (painter)” (May 2020), “James Best’s Latest Scenario” (June 2020), “John Williamson, Art, and Mobility” (July 2020), “Neylan McBaine: Pioneering the Vote” (August 2020), “Song of Names” (September 2020), “Live Life Deliciously with Tara Teaspoon” (October 2020), “James Faulconer: What Questions Are the Scriptures Asking Us?” (November 2020), “Emily Larsen Doxford on Art for Uncertain Times” (December 2020)

2021 - “Inside the Fine Art Market with Warren Winegar” (January 2021), “Contemporary Art in Mexico with Georgina Bringas and Ricardo Rendón” (February 2021), “The Total Arc: How Artists Can Take Control of Their Careers, with Andrew Maxfield” (March 2021), “Convergence: The Art of Fidalis Buehler” (April 2021), “Jennifer Reeder’s Newest Friend: Emma Smith” (May 2021), “The Center Gallery Opens: A Conversation with Curator Chase Westfall” (June 2021), “The Making of a Scholar: Elisabeth Hunt” (July 2021), “James R. Swensen on Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and the WPA Photographers in Utah" (August 2021), “Marin Leggat Roper’s Vision of Dance” (September 2021), “Jeffrey Lee Butler and The Lost Months of Brooklyn” (October 2021), “Maggie Golightly Haslam’s Wasteless Art” (November 2021), “Painting Toilet Paper and the Art of Kirsten Holt Beitler” (December 2021)

2022 - “Margaret Olsen Hemming and Picturing the Sacred Feminine” (January 2022), “The Sacred Feminine: A Panel Discussion” (February 2022), “John Held, Jr.’s Fiction” (March 2022), “Rachel Rueckert’s Wandering Spirit” (September 2022), “Joël René Scoville on Writing Musicals Today” (October 2022), “The Make of the Animated Series Saving Me” (November 2022), “The Strangeness of Fiction with William Morris” (December 2022)

2023 - “A New Voice in Film: Luis Fernando Puente” (January 2023), “The Brilliant Darkness of Aaron Toronto and Nha Uyen Ly Nguyen” (February 2023), “The Artists Residency at the Center hosted by Stanley Hainsworth” (March 2023), “Can Music Change the World? with Pianist Jihea Hong-Park” (April 2023), “Fear and Trembling: A Discussion about Mormon Horror with Filmmaker Barrett Burgin” (May 2023), “Stephen Anderson and The Dominican Jazz Project” (June 2023), “Claudia Lauper Bushman: A Record Shall Be Kept” (July 2023), “Madeline Rupard, the Mundane, and the Sublime” (August 2023), ““The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction-Authors’ Panel” (September 2023), “The Path and the Gate: Mormon Short Fiction-Editor’s Panel” (October 2023), “Steven Ricks Writes an Opera” (October 2023), “Inside the Center’s Christmas Gift Guide” (November 2023), "The 2024 Prize: On Music Education with Jamie Peterson and Patrick Perkins” (December 2023)

2024 - “Succession: The Center Announces a New Chairman” (January 2024), “The Chosen’s Global Languages, with Brad Pelo” (February 2024), “American Folk Music with Mia Black” (March 2024), “The World Premiere of S. Andrew Lloyd’s Amaranthine” (April 2024), “The Burning Hope of Artist Collin Bradford” (May 2024), “Museums Coming to Life: Brett Peterson and Exhibition Interactivity” (June 2024), “Wikipedian-in-Residence: Rachel Helps” (July 2024), “Inspired Arts League with Brittany Scott and Ellen Wheeler” (August 2024)

Katherine Nelson @ 21: A Memory Book (2017)

Nonfiction book, co-authored with Marcia Nelson

Self-published book written on the occasion of Katherine’s 21st birthday with everything we could remember about her life so far

“BYU MOA - Three Exhibition Proposals” (2016)

Draft proposals of exhibitions and related events, conceived at the request of Mark Magleby, director, BYU Museum of Art, unrealized

1. “Two/Pair” exhibitions and collaborations between Annie Poon/Amanda Michelle Smith, David Chapman Lindsay/Chase Westfall

2. “The Glen and Marcia Nelson Collection of Mormon Art”

3. “Mormon Artists at the Art Students League of New York”

The Glen and Marcia Nelson Collection of Mormon Art (2013, 2015)

Catalog (first and second editions) documenting and commenting on over 150 objects (paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, etchings, and artists’ books) from the 1860s to the present, published as an ebook

“Dad’s Eulogy” (2006)

Eulogy of Richard Nelson

Saga for a New World (2004)

Translation from the Portuguese of a nonfiction book by Valdivia Beauchamp

Published by Luso-Brasilian Books.

Mormon Artists Group projects (1999-2017)

Founded in 1999, all 31 of the Mormon Artists Group projects were conceived, commissioned, produced, printed, and hand-bound by myself. Additionally, each had an extensive prospectus booklet:

2002 - Silent Notes Taken (2002), personal essays by multiple NYC authors (Claudia Bushman, Raquel Cook, Kent Larsen, James Lucas, Glen Nelson, Luisa Perkins, Joanne Rowland, Astrid S. Tuminez, and Adriana Velez, and introduction by Richard Bushman), with commissioned original etchings by Stephen Moore, later issued as a commercial paperback; Musical Compositions by LDS Composers (2002), PDF reference of composition listings in NYC public libraries compiled by Glen Nelson

2003 - “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” (2003), three original prints by Lane Twitchell, “Morning,” “Noon,” and “Night”

2004 - Mormoniana (2004), collaboration of 16 LDS composers (Murray Boren, Todd Coleman, Robert Cundick, Lisa DeSpain, Nathan Fifield, David Fletcher, Crawford Gates, Gaylen Hatton, Jeff Manookian, Lansing McLoskey, Reid Nibley, Deon Nielsen Price, David H. Sargent, Rowan Taylor, and Royce Campbell Twitchell), each of whom wrote a solo piano work based on a visual art work by an LDS artist, with an essay by Michael Hicks, “Toward (and Away From) The Mormonistic,” original frontispiece print by Valerie Atkisson, and CD recording performed by Grant Johannesen, also issued as a commercial paperback and a CD issued by Tantara records; Manhattan New York Temple Portfolio (2004), photographs of the then-newly dedicated temple by Natasha Layne Brien, Matthew Day, Jon Moe, Kah Leong Poon, James Ransom, and Seth Smoot

2005 - The Articles of Faith (2005), setting for children of the Joseph Smith text by David Fletcher; The Book of Visions (2005), stop-motion animation by Annie Poon of three historic visionaries (Joan of Arc, Black Elk, and Joseph Smith), with handmade objects and flipbook by the artist, film also issued as DVD

2006 - Curses for Your Sake (2006), chapbook of poetry by Javen Tanner, also issued as commercial paperback; Artists’ Christmas Cards (2006), art cards and object by Natasha Layne Brien, Stephen Moore, Glen Nelson, Luisa Perkins, Kah Leong Poon, Steven Ricks, Joanne Rowland, and Ultra Violet; On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author’s Diary (2006), nonfiction journal and personal reflections on the publication of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, reprinted as a commercial paperback by Greg Kofford Books (2007)

2007 - The Book of Gold (2007), opera DVD, piano/vocal score, interview, “Murray Boren and Michael Hicks in Conversation About The Book of Gold, 19 March 2007,” libretto, in slipcase with art by Valerie Atkisson; Artists’ Christmas Cards (2007), cards, artist’s book, and audio CD by Linda Etherington, Cameron King, Daleene Menning, Jon Moe, Tom Plummer, and Steven Ricks

2008 - I Visit the Spirit World with My Mother (2008), artist’s book by Brent Wilson, also issued as a CD-ROM; Church Drawings (2008), reprinted drawings by Casey Jex Smith; “Atonement” (2008), etching by Walter Rane; Artists’ Christmas Card (2008), “Nativity” by Amanda Michelle Smith and Casey Jex Smith

2009 - The Island of Bali Is Littered With Prayers (2009), nonfiction book about gamelan and Bali by Jeremy Grimshaw, book design by Cameron King, also published as commercial paperback

2010 - On Sunday (2010), essays by multiple authors around the world (Adam Anderson, Stephen Bennett, Claudia Bushman, Harriet Petherick Bushman, Lara Candland, Mario V. L. Cardoso, Glenn Gordon, Stanley Hainsworth, Thomas Holst, Glen Nelson, and Astrid S. Tuminez), who describe worshiping with their local congregation on a Sunday; Song/Cycles (2010), commissioned collaborations of art song cycles by LDS composers and poets, Murray Boren/Glen Nelson, Daniel Bradshaw/Lance Larsen, Harriet Petherick Bushman/Susan Howe, Charis Bean Duke/Will Reger, Lansing McLoskey/Javen Tanner, and David H. Sargent/Elaine M. Craig, piano vocal scores, also published as a commercial paperback; The Book of Moses (2010), suite of commissioned paintings by Linda Etherington illustrating historic scriptural text, book designed by Cameron King, also issued as a commercial paperback

2011 - Handprints (2011), set of original prints by David Chapman Lindsay 2012 - Mormons at the Met (2012), nonfiction book by Glen Nelson with illustrations by Annie Poon, also issued as a commercial paperback; Palimpsests (2012), series of original prints and drawings by Jared Lindsay Clark

2013 - The Glen & Marcia Nelson Collection of Mormon Art (2013, 2015), PDF catalog by Glen Nelson; Field Notes on Language and Kinship (2013), poems and essays on poetry by Tyler Chadwick with commissioned art works reproduced in the volume by Susan Krueger-Barber, also published as a commercial paperback; Joseph Paul Vorst (2013), introduction to the artist and sale of a rare artist’s book, watercolors, and prints by Vorst

2014 - Medallions (2014), commissioned chocolate molds created by Kent Christensen, original watercolors and drawings; Isaiah (2014), commissioned oratorio by Stephen Anderson, with piano/vocal score, recording, and diary distributed on a flash drive art object in ceramic by Daleene Menning, commercial CD recording later issued

2015 - Me and Thad (2015), book by Tim Sutton, screenprints, and original stained-glass works, also issued as a commercial paperback

2016 - Paco (2016), book by Nathan Thatcher with deluxe edition including all known Francisco Estévez compositions, published works, and recordings in handmade box by Ray Nelson, book designed by Cameron King, book also issued as a commercial paperback

2017 - Prayers in Bath (2017), novella by Luisa Perkins with original paintings by Jacqui Larsen reproduced in the book, also issued as a commercial paperback; Joseph Paul Vorst (2017), biography of the artist by Glen Nelson

Bravo (1988)

Board game with booklet of opera trivia and anecdotes, foreign coins to be used as game tokens, and 96 name-that-tune recorded excerpts from operas and art songs.