1. K.W. BELL

Communicating with words is often an elusive affair because their meaning often evaporates before comprehension. Visual expression can say more in its silence than audible words. Eyes should listen to art. As an idea-based painter I am committed to making, exploring and using art as a form of communication. I paint images and sculpt with messages, creating intrigue, using my artwork as a venue to speak.

2. JIM WHITMER

As a photo journalist, I have been fortunate to see and experience unique sites and scenes that often appear rather unexpectedly around me. People and places tend to call “please take this image”. With the options available in the realm of digital editing, the end product is often quite different from what my camera initially captured. My goal is to create and enhance a scene or subject to give breadth and life that is different from first glance.

3. LISA SHABEZ

Lisa is a graduate of the American Academy of Art with a degree in Fine Art and a focus on oil painting. She has worked in mediums of oil, pastel, oil pastel, watercolor and more recently stained glass. She finds challenge and reward in communicating through line, color and composition and is forever grateful to God, the giver of all gifts, for her gift of a passion to create. “My goal is always the same; to seek God’s truth in my task and to be able to express it so that it can be received and understood by others”.

4. KENNETH ARTEZ HENDERSON

5. MARSHA ENGLISH

Marsha English is a self-taught artist that works in many medias such as paint, photography, fabric work, crafts, and paper sculpturing to name a few. “God gave me a ton of imagination and lots of creativity. The best part of working on my art is God and I spend a lot of time together as I work on my pieces. It's a quiet time for me while my hands are busy my thoughts are available for beautiful conversations with our God.”

6. DONALD KRAUSE

A Hoosier by birth, Donald received his academic training at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, studying under Bill Parks. As a young man, he applied those talents and energies to the burgeoning advertising agency world of Michigan Avenue in the same city, where he spent the next twenty years of his career developing advertising campaigns for major corporations.

7. STEVE PUTTRICH

Art for me is a way of connecting shapes to tell a story; connecting people in shared experiences to a place and time. My work at creating art, connecting people and experiencing life, as a gift, is in a way a beautiful form of worship back to God.

8. BRIDGET MANTASOOT

My passion is to move others, pointing to the forgotten details in life and the beauty of the overlooked. I am interested in the lives of forgotten women and children, finding beauty in unexpected places, and juxtaposing things that seem to oppose each other. It is important to me that I learn, experience, explore, and play… that I thrive.

9. IAN CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON

As a boy, Ian loved scratch-building and modeling historical figures and miniatures. After studying linguistics and art history, he apprenticed with a classically trained sculptor and fell in love with the art of lost-wax casting. In his sculptures, Ian seeks to capture movement and inspire connection with the Divine.

"His light shines thru..when we surrender...to do his work...to help others in need."

10. TIM BOTTS

Tim studied graphic design and calligraphy at Carnegie-Mellon University. He designed more than 600 books during his 40 years at Tyndale House Publishers before retiring in 2012. Since 1975 he has taught calligraphy with College of DuPage. He is artistic director for Masterpiece Project, an outreach to high school students in the arts. Ten books of his own work are published including his newest on African American spirituals, “Bound for Glory”.

11. LISA PIRES

One of my greatest joys in life is creating. For over 35 years, my vocation has been as a creative director. I have recently gone back to my first love of painting, where I will continue on this journey of storytelling. Drawn to the magnificence of God’s creation, I have an overwhelming desire to express and interpret this through my painting. I want my art to reflect the beauty of God’s heart, releasing His voice through my creativity. God is my ultimate inspiration. My story will continue to unfold.

12. JAROSLAVA ANNA SICKOVA