Claudia Nahson is a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where she specializes in Jewish illustrators. She has curated shows on Ezra Jack Keats, William Steig and Maurice Sendak. Contact via the museum press office.

Mason Klein is a critic, an art historian and a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where he has curated shows on Modigliani and Man Ray. Klein has written about artists Joseph Beuys, Ross Bleckner, Marcel Duchamp, Leon Golub, Ray Johnson, Yves Klein, Nancy Spero, Michael Snow, and Joan Snyder. Contact via the museum’s […]

Norman L. Kleeblatt is the chief curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City. He has curated shows on Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Chaim Soutine. He is also an expert on 20th-century Jewish artists in New York. Contact via the museum’s press office.

Francesco Spagnolo is the curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties include music and digital media, but he has curated a number of visual exhibits at the Magnes, including one on botanical drawings and one on European Jewish posters.

Mark Podwal is an artist and illustrator whose contemporary, cartoonlike drawings often focus on Judaism, Jewish culture and the Jewish experience. His work is the subject of the book Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art. He provided the art for the documentary House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. Some of his work […]

Lee Jefferson is an assistant professor of religion at Centre College in Danville, Ky. He is the co-editor of  The Art of Empire: Christian Art in its Imperial Context (2015), which examines the relationship between early Christian art to Christian rituals.

Jonathan A. Anderson is an artist, art critic and associate professor of art at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. With William Dyrness he is the co-author of Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism, which examines modern art’s engagement with Christian theology. Anderson’s areas of interest include art theory and criticism, art […]

Peter W. Williams is professor emeritus of religion at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of Religion, Art and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression, a look at how Episcopalians influenced the visual arts during that time.

Philip Graham Ryken is president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. He is the author of Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts, which argues that God has a plan for the arts, which Ryken sees as a tool for both evangelism and glorifying God. Contact via media relations at Wheaton.