Deborah Sokolove is a painter, a visual arts professor at Wesley Theological University in Washington, D.C., and director of its Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion. She is the author of Sanctifying Art: Inviting Conversation Between Artists, Theologians, and the Church. She teaches four courses on religion and art, including one on art […]

Alyssa Mumtaz is a mixed-media artist based in Charlottesville, Va. She describes her work as exploring “the intersections of abstraction, contemplativity and artisanship.” She is a 2017-2018 artist-in-residence at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion in Washington, D.C.  

Salma Arastu is an artist and calligrapher based in Berkeley, Calif. Her subjects are frequently sacred texts and she believes her art is divinely inspired. Her works drawn from the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita and the poems of Rumi were the subject of a show called “Painting Prayers” at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.

Bernard Maisner is a contemporary artist and master calligrapher whose works were collected in a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at St. Louis University in St. Louis. He is internationally famous for his illuminated manuscripts. His artist’s statement for that show describes his art as a doorway to the spiritual. He […]

The Rev. Arturo Araujo is a Jesuit priest and an artist who works in printmaking and ceramics. He has had a solo show at the Manresa Gallery in San Francisco. Gallery notes for that show said: “Connecting closely to Pope Francis’ second encyclical Laudato si’, Araujo nuances and expands upon the spirit of an earthly tradition, […]

Ivan Guaderrama is an artist in Los Cabos, Mexico, who says his work is inspired by God. He paints angels, interpretations of Bible verses, crosses, Bible characters and saints.

Brian Kershisnik is a contemporary artist and Mormon whose faith-based work is featured on a tour of the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City. He has described his subjects as people engaged in “workaday holiness” and lectured about the intersection of faith, inspiration and art at the Art, Belief and Meaning symposium in 2008. […]

Claudia Gould is director of the Jewish Museum in New York City. She has a strong background in contemporary art and her appointment to head the museum in 2011 was a move to emphasize contemporary art and contemporary perspectives on the museum’s collection of Judaica.

Natasha Ritsma is curator of the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, where eight galleries feature religious art. She can discuss the importance and impact of religiously inspired art and what role faith can play in the life and work of an artist.