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List Of Latter-day Saints
This is a list of people who identify, (or have identified if dead), as Latter Day Saints, and who have attained levels of notability. This list includes adherents of all Latter Day Saint movement denominations, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Community of Christ, and others. LDS Church members are usually considered either: * "Active", meaning they attend church on a regular basis and are committed to living their religion, * "Less-active" meaning they attend church on an occasional basis and may or may not be committed to living their religion or * "Inactive", meaning they do not attend church regularly and/or they do not adhere to its principles. See List of former Latter Day Saints for those persons who ended their affiliation with the Latter Day Saint movement. Artists Sports figures American football and Canadian football Association football (soccer) Baseball Basketball Ice hockey Rugby Rugby league Rugby union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latter Day Saints
The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 17 million nominal members, including over 17 million belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), 250,000 in Community of Christ, and several other denominations with memberships generally ranging in the thousands of members. The predominant theology of the churches in the movement is Mormonism, which sees itself as restoring again on Earth the early Christian church; their members are most commonly known as Mormons. An additional doctrine of the church allows for prophets to receive and publish modern-day revelations. A minority of Latter Day Saint adherents, such as members of Community of Christ, have been influenced by Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blair Buswell
Blair Buswell (born 1956) is an American artist who specializes in sports sculptures and has created almost 100 of the Pro Football Hall of Fame busts.Swensen, Jason"Mormon sculptor/former BYU athlete remains a familiar figure at NFL Hall of Fame" ''Church News'', 9 August 2017. Retrieved on 10 March 2020. Originally from North Ogden, Utah, Buswell began his formal art training at Ricks College. He subsequently transferred to Brigham Young University on an art scholarship where he also played as a running back for the Cougars football team. Graduating in 1982, Buswell found a marriage of his love for art and sports in sculpting. He has sculpted over 80 busts of all new Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees since 1983, including that of former BYU teammate Steve Young, John Madden, Pat Bowlen and Randy Moss.Smith, Eric"Hall of Fame Sculptor Details Process Behind Randy Moss' Bust" ''Minnesota Vikings'', 03 August 2018. Retrieved on 22 September 2021. He has also created the NFL Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigham Young University–Hawaii
Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU–Hawaii) is a private college in Laie, Hawaii, United States. It is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). BYU–Hawaii was founded in 1955 and it became a satellite campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1974. In 2004, it was made a separate institution. The college's sole focus is on undergraduate education. The institution is broadly organized into four colleges and its parent organization, the Church Educational System (CES), sponsors sister schools in Utah and Idaho. Approximately 97 percent of the college's 2,800 students are members of the LDS Church. BYU–Hawaii students are required to follow the Church Educational System Honor Code, which requires behavior in line with LDS teachings. History The LDS Church was established in the islands in 1850 following the Edict of Toleration promulgated by Kamehameha III, giving the underground Hawai‘i Catholic Church the right to wors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ortho R
Ortho- is a Greek prefix meaning “straight”, “upright”, “right” or “correct”. Ortho may refer to: * Ortho, Belgium, a village in the Belgian province of Luxembourg Science * List of commonly used taxonomic affixes (ortho-) * Arene substitution patterns, two substituents that occupy adjacent positions on an aromatic ring * Chlordane, an organochlorine compound that was used as a pesticide Mathematics * Orthogonal, a synonym for perpendicular * Orthonormal, the property that a collection of vectors are mutually perpendicular and each of unit magnitude * Orthodrome, a synonym for great circle, a geodesic on the sphere * Orthographic projection, a parallel projection onto a perpendicular plane Medicine * Orthomyxovirus, a family of viruses to which influenza belongs * Orthodontics, a specialty of dentistry concerned with the study and treatment of malocclusions * Orthopedic, the study of the musculoskeletal system * Ortho-DOT, a psychedelic drug * Ortho-cept and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fairbanks
John B Fairbanks (December 27, 1855, in Payson, Utah – June 15, 1940, in Salt Lake City) was an American landscape painter. In 1890, he was one of a group of artists who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), in preparation for painting murals at the nearly completed Salt Lake Temple. He painted murals in the Salt Lake Temple and the Mesa Arizona Temple that still exist today. Fairbanks was the official photographer for the South American expeditions of Benjamin Cluff. Fairbanks was the first artist to live and paint in Zion National Park. He was an early art instructor at Brigham Young Academy and was one of the founding members of the Utah Art Institute. Fairbanks was the father of artists J. Leo Fairbanks, John Leo Fairbanks (painter and sculptor), Ortho Lane Fairbanks (1887-1962; sculptor) and Avard Fairbanks, Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (sculptor). Biography Early life John B Fairbanks was born on December 27, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avard Fairbanks
Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (March 2, 1897 – January 1, 1987) was a 20th-century American sculptor. Over his eighty-year career, he sculpted over 100 public monuments and hundreds of artworks. Fairbanks is known for his religious-themed commissions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) including the ''Three Witnesses'', ''Tragedy of Winter Quarters'', and several ''Angel Moroni'' sculptures on spires of the church's temples. Additionally, Fairbanks sculpted over a dozen Abraham Lincoln-themed sculptures and busts among which the most well-known reside in the U.S. Supreme Court Building and Ford's Theatre Museum. From a young age, Fairbanks was a talented artist. At 13 years old, he attended the Art Students League of New York on scholarship and his work was displayed at the National Academy of Design a year later. In 1913, he studied abroad in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts where he was the youngest student admitted to the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. The university received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. It is the flagship university of the Utah System of Higher Education. As of fall 2023, there were 26,827 undergraduate education, undergraduate students and 8,409 postgraduate education, graduate students, for an enrollment total of 35,236, making it the List of colleges and universities in Utah#Public institutions, second-largest public university in Utah. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the University of Utah School of Medicine, School of Medicine, Utah's first medical school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Evans (artist)
Edwin Evans (February 2, 1860, Lehi, Utah - March 3, 1946, Los Angeles)''Bishop David Evans and His Family'' Google Books. was an American landscape painter and teacher. In 1890, he was one of a group of painters who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of (LDS Church), in preparation for painting s at the nearly completed |
Soren Edsberg
Soren Edsberg (born Søren Edsberg, 1945– 2021) was a Danish painter who emigrated to the United States. His work has been highly praised by Alexandre Cirici Pellicer. Biography He was the son of Knud Edsberg who was also a painter. First Knud and then Soren joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1961. Many of Edsberg's works are of farm animals. He also made several abstract works, including ones in which he inscribed verses of scripture on the art work. One of his more widely acclaimed works is entitled ''The Course of Life''. Edsberg was married to Johnna, a convert to the LDS Church, whom he met while she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. They had seven children. In 1987, Edsberg immigrated to the United States and became an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University. He also was involved in producing videos for educational and medical purposes. He also operated the Hope Gallery of art in Salt Lake City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Deal
Gregg Deal (born 1975) is a Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist whose work deals with "Indigenous identity and pop culture, touching on issues of race relations, historical consideration and stereotype" Biography Gregg Deal was born in Park City, Utah, to a white father and Native American mother. Deal is an enrolled as a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Deal met his wife, Megan Prymak in Provo, Utah in 1998. The following year, they moved to Montclair, Virginia and married. Deal enrolled as a student at George Mason University in 1999, studying art with a concentration in painting. He and his family lived in the Washington, D.C., area for 17 years before moving to their current place of residence, Colorado Springs, CO. He resides there with his wife and five children. Career and artwork Deal lived and worked as a graphic designer then self-employed artist in the Washington, D.C., area for 16 years. After moving to Denver, CO, the Denver Art Museum hosted Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Datoc Dall
Rose Datoc Dall (born 1968) is a Filipina-American painter and is known for her contemporary figurative paintings and her religious works. Dall was born in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), joining at age 19. She received a BFA in Art History and Fine Art Studio from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in 1990."Rose Datoc Dall" ''Meridian Magazine'', 2004. Retrieved on 15 March 2020. She was the subject of the LDS Church's " I'm a Mormon" ad campaign including a profile that garnered more than 150,000 views. Career Dall ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willard Clawson
John Willard "Will" Clawson (January 18, 1858 – April 6, 1936) was an American, Utah-based artist, in the late-19th and early 20th-century. Biography Clawson was born to Hiram B. Clawson and his wife, the former Alice Young. Alice was a daughter of Brigham Young, and Clawson was born in the blue room of the Beehive House, which was built by Brigham Young for his wives and their families. Clawson studied at the University of Deseret, among his notable teachers there was George M. Ottinger. He married Mary Clark in the LDS Church Endowment House shortly before his departure for New York City to study at the National Academy of Design. He then returned to Salt Lake City where he was primarily involved in portrait painting although he preferred doing landscapes. In 1891 Clawson went to Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian and then the École des Beaux-Arts. While at the later institution he received instruction from Claude Monet and Édouard Manet. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
