Lil Copan
Three paintings by Betty LaDuke
Rwanda: Celebrating the Gift of the Heifer “Consolation”; Poland: Brzezowka Village Hen Project; Uganda: Mrs. Nanfuka Teopista’s Goats, by Betty LaDuke
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Papel Tejido 28 (both sides), by Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
Papel tejido refers to woven paper constructions. This one is two-sided and can be hung in any direction....
“I Have a Dream” / Martin Luther King, Jr., by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
Visionaries, martyrs and activists are featured in Pamela Chatterton-Purdy’s Icons of the Civil Rights Movement....
African Exodus, by Margaret Adams Parker
Margaret Adams Parker’s woodcuts often present refugees and sojourners, as does African Exodus, which refers to refugees of the Rwandan genocide....
St. Christina the Astonishing, by Cynthia Large
West Coast Quaker artist Cynthia Large came to her explorations of faith through her study of art history....
My Bright Abyss, by Christian Wiman
Having struggled with a rare cancer that offered little chance of recovery, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman has navigated his way through questions of belief and death....
Daily Cross, by Gerda Liebmann
From Daily Cross (clockwise from top left): Sand Cross, Apple Cross, Bunker Cross, Phila Cross.
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A Mind of Winter, by Madeleine Avirov
"I am not strictly a realist,” says Los Angeles artist Madeleine Avirov....
The Last Supper, by Jerry Geier
Vermont artist Jerry Geier’s sculptures often feature commonplace moments and ordinary people. Even the material he uses—terra-cotta—reflects the most common of elements, earth....
St. Ann Christ (with detail), by Chris Scala
While many artists seek to convey a sense of the layers of suffering and anguish in the Passion of Christ, few consider what the medium itself conveys....
Holy Trinity and Crown of Thorns, by Ludmila Pawlowska
While wanting to be faithful to the Russian tradition of icon painting, Ludmila Pawlowska seeks a new way of expressing what Matisse (when he discovered icons) termed “luminosity and devotion.” Her...
The Lord’s Prayer, by Chris Taylor
Artist-musician Chris Taylor writes that he was driving home one day, with his thoughts spiraling “into stress and sadness.” A truck pulled in front of him with the message “Jesus loves you” writte...
The Tag Project / Executive Order 9066, by Wendy Maruyama
Executive Order 9066, issued in 1942, began a nightmare for 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans that echoes through the generations....
Smiling Ray G, by a Room in the Inn patron (courtesy of Bryce McCloud)
I see [making] portraits as a way to say hello to one another,” says Bryce McCloud, artist-in-residence at Room in the Inn in Nashville, Tennessee, and leader of the city’s arts project “Our ...
Girt, by Lanie Gannon
The idea for Girt came to Lanie Gannon when she saw Serbians fleeing their war-torn villages “with nothing but what they had strapped on their backs and what they had strapped to their woo...
Courage 3.0 and King
In the paintings of Tim Okamura, a Canadian artist working in Brooklyn, the hip-hop urban landscape becomes part of a contemporary icon....
Beneath Within
In her mixed-media paintings, Sheila Mahoney Keefe combines abstraction with sparse representation—a table, a flower, a door....
Word: Matthew (The Headless Baptist)
LePage combines his delight in graphic design with his dogged intention of reading scripture....
Images from The Gospel of John, Photographed
In 2010, David Kevin Weaver traveled to Israel with camera in hand, seeking to trace the life and journey of Jesus....
Sea of Script
Jake Weidmann found his true calling when he learned there were only nine master penmen in the world....