Great Awakening: Vision and Synthesis in Latter-day Saint Contemporary Art

By Chase Westfall

Digital catalog of the inaugural exhibition of the Center Gallery featuring an extended and illustrated essay by the curator, Chase Westfall, and interpretations of the works in the exhibition by Georgina Bringas, Jared Lindsay Clark, Maddison Colvin, Daniel Everett, Jonathan Frioux with Armando Castro Hernandez, Ron Linn, Jason Metcalf, Rachel Thomander, and an unrecorded Guna Artist. Book design by Cameron King and foreword written by Glen Nelson. (Note: the softcover edition of the catalog is sold out; this digital edition contains the full content of the first edition.)

120 pp., fully illustrated with 27 color images and 18 half-tone images.

“The book thoughtfully and critically engages with the artworks on display in the exhibition. I have never read anything else like Great Awakening. Westfall’s book opened my eyes to new ways of engaging with specific works of art in it, as well as with LDS works of art more broadly. I think the way that Westfall engages with the art offers a useful model for how Latter-day Saints of all varieties can engage with art more deeply.” Review by Conor Hilton, Association for Mormon Letters