Jewish Art Salon is an international artists and scholars community that promotes understanding and appreciation of contemporary Jewish visual art and organizes and supports art exhibits and other events with Jewish themes. It is based in New York City and maintains a list of Jewish artists around the world, some with contact information. Yona Verwer is […]

The Contemporary Religious Artists Association is an organization of professional artists who take religion as their subject. Its members are painters, sculptors, musicians and writers who “seek God with heart and mind, and to glorify God through our artistic work.” The group was founded in response to St. John Paul II’s 1999 appeal to artists to […]

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is a writer, poet and professor of English, creative writing and American Catholic studies at Fordham University in New York City. She serves as associate director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. She has written about the intersection of religion and popular music, especially in the work of Bruce Springsteen and […]

Megan Sanborn Jones is an associate professor of theater at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her area of expertise is Mormon-produced pageantry and melodramas.

Roy Brooks is a a Ph.D. candidate in theater and performance studies with a specialization in Christianity and theater at the University of Georgia in Athens. He specializes in medieval theater, performance art and queer Catholic imagery.

David Morgan is a professor of religious studies with a secondary appointment in art history and visual studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is an expert in the history of religious visual culture, art history, and religion and media. He is the author of The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern […]

Jas’ Elsner is a visiting professor of art and religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studies religion, literature and visual culture. His expertise is in the art of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the pre-Christian world.

Elayne Oliphant is an assistant professor of anthropology in the religious studies program at New York University. She is an expert on Catholicism and art and is the author of the forthcoming book Signs of an Unmarked Faith: Contemporary Art and Secular Catholicism in 21st Century Paris. She organized a 2015 exhibition, “The Art of Invisibility,” featuring […]

Ashlee Whitaker is the curator of religious art at Brigham Young University’s Museum of Art in Provo, Utah. The museum has a significant number of works, both antique and contemporary, that deal with religious subject matter and themes.