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American Folk Art Museum Workers Picket Gala, Calling for Higher Wages

Workers at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, represented by UAW Local 2110, picketed the museum's annual gala at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan on May 6, 2026. They demanded higher wages and better benefits after contract negotiations stalled for nearly two years. Frontline workers earn $19 per hour, about $12,000 below the city's living wage, while the museum's CEO Jason Busch earned $321,882 in 2024. The union requested a three-year contract raising wages to $30 per hour, but management offered only $21.50 and refused to guarantee existing benefits, leading to the protest.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Church History Museum debuts 'Lift Up the Hands Which Hang Down' art gallery

The Church History Museum in Salt Lake City has opened a 150-piece art exhibition as part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 13th International Art Competition. The competition received submissions from 584 artists across 26 countries, with works selected by five regionally diverse jurors based on thematic resonance, innovation, and technical merit. The exhibition's theme, 'Lift Up the Hands Which Hang Down,' is drawn from the Church's scripture, Doctrine and Covenants 81:5, and features works inspired by scripture and personal stories of service and faith. Notable pieces include Linda Vance Etherington's painting 'How Many Loaves Have Ye? Bring Them Hither to Me' and Silvana Alvarez Rhodes's oil painting 'Fishers of Men.'

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 26, 2026 visibility 18 link 4 artists

‘From Above’: New Church History Museum exhibit features Australian Aboriginal Latter-day Saint art

The Church History Museum in Salt Lake City has opened a new exhibition titled “From Above: Aboriginal Australian Art From the Bird Family.” The show features works by Indigenous Australian artists from the Anmatyerr culture who are also members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The artists, including Gary Bird Mpetyane, Maggie Bird Mpetyane, and Rose Coleena Wallace Nungari, traveled from Australia to attend the opening of the exhibit, which runs through August 1, 2026.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 25, 2025 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Latter-day Saint artists ‘Lift Up the Hands Which Hang Down’ in new exhibit

The Church History Museum in Salt Lake City has unveiled 150 artworks selected for the 13th International Art Competition of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, themed "Lift Up the Hands Which Hang Down" after Doctrine and Covenants 81:5. The exhibition opened on April 24, 2025, featuring works by 584 artists from 26 countries, including pieces like "Deposition" by Sarah Hawkes and "The Parable of the Gardner: The Garden of the Lord" by Pamela Salinas Bernal. Curator Laura Paulsen Howe and BYU art history professor James Swensen, a juror, highlighted how artists visualized themes of succoring the weak and strengthening others through diverse media and personal testimony.

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article local schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 14 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

NYC’s American Folk Art Museum Is Closing for Renovations

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) on Manhattan's Upper West Side will temporarily close this summer for a major renovation project. The museum will shutter its current exhibition "Somewhere to Roost" on May 2 and close remaining galleries on May 26. The renovation, the largest in 30 years, will revitalize the museum shop, courtyard, office spaces, entry façade, and operations systems, with phased reopenings starting this fall and full completion expected next spring, timed around the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

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Church History Museum Showcases 13th International Art Competition

The Church History Museum of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, is presenting an exhibition of works selected from the 13th International Art Competition, running from April 24, 2025, to January 3, 2026. The exhibition features 150 artworks chosen from hundreds of submissions by five jurors, with artists from 26 countries including Angola, Argentina, Australia, and Vietnam. The theme, “Lift Up the Hands Which Hang Down,” is drawn from Doctrine and Covenants 81:5, and the show includes a variety of media such as sculpture, ceramic, chitenge, and tapa. Purchase and merit awards were announced at an April 24 ceremony, and a virtual gallery allows public voting for a Visitors’ Choice Award through November 30, 2025.

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