Volunteer
We love volunteers. :) If you’d like to help out, take a look through this list and see what interests you, then send your resume (PDF or Word) to volunteers at mormonartist dot net and let us know. You can also tell us a little background on yourself, the URL to your website, and any relevant experience if you want. We’ll then send you some guidelines and instructions.
Workflow
Right now our basic workflow is that we add you to email lists (a list for transcribers, a list for proofreading, etc.), and when we have needs, we send an email to the list with the information. If you have time and are interested, you email us back. (We do this instead of making direct assignments because people’s schedules vary and we don’t really know who’s interested in what.)
Volunteer Types
1. Contributors. We want to know what’s going on in the world of Mormon arts, but we only have so much we can do by ourselves. Contributors scour the web looking for people we can interview, feature article ideas, and existing content we might want to reprint (photographs, essays, whatever). You also post interesting Mormon arts stuff to the blog.
2. Interviewers. You conduct interviews (via email, over the phone using Skype or Google Voice to record the interview, or in-person using a digital recorder).
3. Copy editors. The more editing experience you have, the better. You make sure things are polished.
4. Transcribers. You listen to the MP3 of the interview and type it up. One interview generally takes two to five hours to transcribe.
5. Proofreaders. Before we send out the magazine, you proof it for errors. It’s a fairly small time commitment, depending on how fast you can proofread.
6. Photographers. You need to have a DSLR and a lens with a low f-stop (f/1.8 or f/1.4), and you probably need to be in Utah. (Or be really rich and like flying around the world on your own tab. ;))
7. Illustration. Our need for illustrations isn’t too frequent at the moment, but we’re going to be using them more often (both with the regular issues and with special issues). Send us some samples of your work if you’re interested.
Guidelines
Interviewing Guidelines
Transcribing Guidelines
Interview Editing Guidelines
Photography Guidelines
Hey,
You should interview Doc Christenson; if you haven’t already, I have to admit I haven’t read back issues yet, despite the fact there’s only four of them.I think he’s living in Orem or SLC now. But I grew up in Oregon and he lived there for a long time. He has some painting prints for sale at lds.org and also does jewelry. He made custom wedding rings for my husband and I (when we got married in ’04 he was still in Oregon). Anyways, if you need something we live in Savannah, GA now, I’m a photographer and my husband is a graphic designer. We have the entire CS3 suite, and my lens is 2.8, so I guess we don’t quite qualify :). Not too large of a Mormon population down here, but if we hear of something I’ll post it to facebook.
Thanks!
Kristyn Leonard
Hi Guys,
I am an art professor and visual artist and sometimes art writer and what you are doing intrigues me. I would be interested in talking about how I could add to what you do.
David
Hi, I am a certified proofreader and copyeditor and I really need more experience proofreading. I write children and adult books, however, I compose mainly for my Grandchildren. I consider myself a professional children’s composer. So maybe there is somewhere you could fit me in.
Sincerely,
David W. Olsen
Seriously…you must check out Janis Wunderlich’s art. See http://www.janismarswunderlich.com…it‘s crazy interesting, and a lot of it deals in a really fresh way with motherhood.
Sorry, the link got screwed up.
http://www.janismarswunderlich.com/
Hey, I’d be glad to help with the copy editing or proofreading if you need it. I work in the FHSS Writing Lab at BYU and I have some experience copy editing with The Leading Edge. I also have a camera, but the f-stop only goes down to 2.8. It’s a Canon PowerShot SX100 IS, if that helps. You can check out my photoblog for examples of my work there: http://onelowerlight.com/photos
This is such a great undertaking. I am enjoying it and finding great inspiration. I live in South Florida… I am involved in the Broadcast Television Industry. Currently I am a Design Director, I deal primarily with Motion Graphics and Graphic Design. I will keep my eyes and ears open. South Florida has a very vibrant art population…our LDS membership is growing and I have no doubt that some incredible stories are waiting to be discovered.
Keep up the good work… sam
President Kimball’s words say it all-
I would love to interview these brilliant stars
The Gospel Vision of the Arts
‘Our own talent, obsessed with dynamism from a worthy goal, could put into such a story life and heartbeats and emotions and love and pathos, drama, suffering, fear, courage; and they could put into it the great leader, the mighty modern Moses who led a people farther than from Egypt to Jericho, who knew miracles as great as the stream from the rock at Horeb, manna in the desert, giant grapes, rain when needed, battles won against great odds.’ Spencer W. Kimball, “The Gospel Vision of the Arts,” Tambuli, Feb 1978, 1
Just discovered you great journal. For visual arts/photography up and coming artists please check out bryan niven he has a great web site lives in orem. Also elise black whose art has been featured in the friend magazine. Both are talented mormon artists.
I can’t believe that this and other similar sites have been in existence so long without me being aware of them. I am a retired/disabled photographer, writer, and photojournalist. I have lots of equipment and expertise. I am a competent copy editor. I AM mobile depending upon the state of my health on any give day or week. I usually have a couple of good days a week during which I would relish the opportunity to contibute within the fields of my expertise.
I should call attention to my wife, who is a fairly high profile artist; she is a music festival producer, music educator, and founder of the West Tennessee Youth Chorus in Memphis. Martha Ann Wright has made a great contribution to the choral world, primarily inTennessee. She produces an international children’s chorus festival which allows various choirs from around the world to work with celebrity music professionals from different genres. The children and music stars then perform a concert at the historic Grand Ole Opry stage in Nasville. The event is called the Crossroads Celbrity Festival as Nasville becomes the crossroads to explore the comon roots of music–from classic to country. Both my wife and I are converts of over forty years.
The following two web sites are Martha’s:
http://www.crossroadschildrenschorusfestival.com http://www.westtennesseeyouthchorus.com
I have a blog which features both helpful photography hints and my experience with many different vintage cameras from my own collection. This site is a good resource for vintage camera collectors, professional and amateur photographers, and photography historians. My blog is located here:
http://notesandnods.typepad.com/photography_for_profit_or/
If sometimes you need pictures of artist living in Mexico City, I would like to volunteer as a photographer.
Best regards.
I would love to be involved with a project in helping LDS artists find market success. Creating art can be very lonely and selfish unless one’s art fills another’s heart with joy. I admit this as a selfish request but I need others to be involved in my work and in the work of others like me. Vangogh only sold one painting in his whole life because he was all alone in his vision. History repeats itself.