Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Cultural Relevance Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader The Center published its landmark volume of visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth-century to the present, including art by, for, or about Mormons. Scholars from various disciplines, perspectives, and backgrounds contributed individual chapters with rigorous research and analysis of Latter-day Saint artistic production and culture. Together, the twenty-two chapters covered panorama paintings, quilts, architecture, sculpture, and cartoons, to film, gallery installations, indigenous works and more to offer a complex and comprehensive picture of Mormon visual art with unprecedented breadth and depth. Highlighting a broad range of critical approaches from scholars both inside and outside the faith tradition, this publication was the first of its kind about Latter-day Saint art. The volume was published by Oxford University Press on August 27, 2024, edited by Amanda Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred, and featured a foreword from Center co-founders, Richard L. Bushman and Glen Nelson. Carnegie Hall Performance On April 9th, 2024, the celebrated soprano Rachel Willis-Srensen made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall as a guest of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts. Willis-Srensen is a regular at leading opera houses around the world, from the LA Opera to Opera national de Paris. At Zankel Hall, Willis-Srensen sang works by Strauss and song cycles by Rachmaninoff, Beach, and Sibelius. She gave the world premiere of S. Andrew Lloyd's Amaranthine, winner of the 2022 Prize of The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, an endowment created to honor the legacy of Metropolitan Opera mezzo Ariel Bybee (1943-2018). The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts The Ariel Bybee Endowment at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts is delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Prize: Music Education. Mia Black, a music educator currently living in Utah Valley and with multiple experiences living abroad is developing a curriculum for elementary-aged students through a book, titled American Harmon. American Harmony will function as an organized collection of folk songs to be used in a classroom setting organized by the story of immigration to America. The book will adhere to Kodaly music education theory, which suggests that students should learn music through the folk songs of their history and culture. Black, in particular, understands both the benefits and challenges of applying this theory to her work. Each unit will include songs, lessons and historical context to help elementary-aged students understand and celebrate the inherent multicultural nature of the United States. Folk music from local Native American cultures, Southern slave songs, Latin American music, Asian music, Irish music, and more will be included in the book. Of the broad inclusion of culture and ethnicity in the curriculum, Black says, "They should all have a place within American folk music - as they represent the diversity of our students that makes up our true American heritage." Claremont Graduate University Exhibition The Delicate Ties That Bind was a visual art exhibition held at Claremont Graduate University in the Peggy Phelps Gallery and East Gallery in Claremont, California from October 19, 2024 - November 1, 2024. It explored the precariousness of post-pandemic existence and assessed the complex and often fragile relationships that shape our lives now. These threads make up the nature of our reality and serve as metaphors for both a tattered society and the essential connections between us. They both have the power to hurt but also the power to heal. The exhibition delved into the intersections of social and geographic communities, religious institutions, political systems, environmental concerns, and personal connections. The Delicate Ties That Bind was curated by Megan Knobloch Geilman and sponsored by Chloe Ross. The seve

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
• Fundraising efficiency: $3.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -88.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings