Sacred Murals is the icon-painting studio of artists Philip Davydov and Olga Shalamova in St. Petersburg, Russia.

James Najarian is editor of the journal Religion and the Arts at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Gregory Wolfe is the founder and editor of Image, which examines contemporary art and literature’s intersection with religious traditions of Western culture. He also serves as senior fellow at the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture at Seattle University.

Aimee Froom is curator of Art of the Islamic Worlds at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a lecturer at Rice University. She is author of Arts of Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection at the MFAH.

Massumeh Farhad is chief curator and curator of Islamic art at Freer Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C.

Kittredge Cherry is a Los Angeles-based Christian author, minister and art historian who runs a blog called Jesus in Love that focuses on LGBTQ issues as they are expressed in religious art. She is the author of Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More.

Cameron Anderson is executive director of Christians in the Visual Arts in Madison, Wis., and author of The Faithful Artist: A Vision for Evangelicalism and the Arts.

Sunhee Joo is a Los Angeles-based educator and artist with an interest in biblical stories, people and nature. She has said Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Mary Magdalene are her “beloved characters.”

Beth Krensky is an associate professor of art education and the area head of art teaching at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is also an artist and activist. Her work is expressed in objects — she makes reliquaries, prayer shawls and “portable sanctuaries.” Some of her work is rooted in Judaism.