This postAs you may have noticed in the screenshot on my last post, something new’s afoot. It’s a blog called Mormon Renaissance, and if you’re interested at all in Mormon arts and culture, you need to get on over there and subscribe. :)
Mormon Renaissance has blossomed out of the BYU chapter of AML and will be a rose in the wilderness, I think. Here’s the mission statement, which is an allusion to the threefold mission of the Church:
- We would preach the gospel that Mormon art (and therefore Mormon culture) is not just redeemable, but something remarkable, necessary, and worth striving for.
- We would redeem the dead works of past efforts at a Mormon aesthetic, raising awareness of our tradition as a people and learning from that heritage, allowing it to inform our own efforts.
- We would perfect the craft, critical discernment, and the quality of Mormon artistic efforts by promoting current Mormon artists and scholars and encouraging participation in the critical conversation.
I suppose I ought to mention at this point that I designed the blog and will be one of several regular bloggers on it, so I have some obvious bias here, but even so, you should check it out. If you’re interested, that is. :)
