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March 8, 2007
Living on a 'Prayer': Local artist Dallyn Vail Bayles to perform at SCERA concert
Orem resident, Broadway actor and experienced soloist, Dallyn Vail Bayles has released his debut album, "Prayer," and will be performing the music in concert on Tuesday.
A native of Green River, Bayles has performed in numerous productions, including the touring company of "Les Miserables," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints's feature-length film "Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration," and pageant "Nauvoo."
Living color — Artist makes a living illustrating children's books
While most people probably wouldn't consider drawing and coloring pictures to be a good way to make a living, it's an essential part of Val Chadwick Bagley's livelihood.
The Syracuse resident works as a professional cartoonist, illustrating board books, coloring books, card games and clip art for Covenant Communications. To date, his products have sold over 500,000. Coloring is an important aspect of his profession.
On February 1, tickets will become available for The Man Who Knew, a pageant based on the life and testimony of Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
The pageant focuses on Harris’s life from the time he started investigating the Church until 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published.
At Brigham Young University, local artists currently are sharing wall space with some of the world's renowned painters.
"Baptism of Christ," J. Kirk Richards, oil on canvas.
The impressive and unique collection includes 170 paintings, prints, icons, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture from diverse times and creeds.
Local artists are Lee Udall Bennion, Brian T. Kershisnik, J. Kirk Richards, Laurie Olson Lisonbee, Bruce H. Smith, Ron Richmond and Kent Goodliffe.
They share space with Carl Heinrich Bloch, Albrecht Durer, John Rogers Herbert, Sir Edward John Poynter, Rembrandt, Ary Scheffer, Bernard Sleigh, Minerva Teichert and the Workshop of Titian.
The modern image of Jesus Christ, familiar to Westerners from countless living-room art prints and Sunday school primers, is a gaunt, robed man with fair skin, a beard and flowing, shoulder-length brown hair.
He is, without a doubt, the most-rendered artistic subject in history. But considering that nobody knows what Jesus looked like, why do so many portraits of him look the same?
