Brother Martin Erspamer is a Benedictine monk of St. Menirad Archabbey in southern Indiana. He attended a Marianist High School and became influenced by the work of the Marianist artists, joining their community in 1971. He received an MFA from Boston University in 1986 and began his career as a liturgical artist working in painting, illustration, ceramics, stained glass, furniture and worship space design. In 2004 Brother Martin became a monk himself, moving to St. Meinrad Archabbey. He has creatively renovated over fifty churches and his stained glass designs have transformed many worship spaces. Brother Martin's religious illustrations are well known and his art has been used on covers for many OCP missals. His art celebrates the Benedictine motto - "that in all things may God be glorified."

Jo-Ann VanReeuwyk is Chair of the Calvin College Art Department and Director of Calvin's Art Education Program. As a teacher Jo-Ann creatively utilizes art in education, worship and multi-cultural relationships. As an artist she uses her fibrous organic sculptures to create self-portraits and intimate portrayals of personalities and experiences. In 2008 Jo-Ann was part of "Charis," a multi-cultural art experience & exhibit in Indonesia. In 2010 she had a sabbatical show called "Sanctuary: Hallowed Space, Holy Place" at Calvin College. Jo-Ann was recently named the 2013 Michigan Higher Education Teacher of the Year. In June, 2013 she was part of a Visual Arts Seminar in South Africa, where 10 North American artists engaged 10 South African Artists sharing insight and ideas that will become a traveling exhibit.

Chris Overvoorde is professor emeritus of art at Calvin College. Since retiring Chris has been very active in the Grand Rapids art community as a teacher, liturgical artist, painter, member of the West Michigan Eight and Grand Rapids Art Museum doscent. He will be featuring the liturgical work he's done for Grace CRC, his church of 30 years here in Grand Rapids and doing workshops on creating his distinct liturgical art. In 2003 Chris had a one man show at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. He's published Passing the Colors: Engaging Visual Culture in the 21st Century, the story of his life in art and in 1990 began an artist-in-residency with the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Chris and his wife Greta continue to make annual excursions to Blaremore, Alberta where he paints the prairie. His art is widely collected.

Linda Witte Henke is a contemporary textile artist from Indianapolis who specializes in spiritually expressive work created for liturgical purposes. Working continually between abstract and representational forms, Linda utilizes the vibrant palette, tactile richness, and extreme versatility of textiles to fabricate inspiring liturgical art. She imaginatively uses the symbols of our Christian traditions to create original art that gives an "exterior expression to her interior reflections" on scripture, worship and her own spiritual journeys. Linda invites us, "to reflect more deeply on spiritual themes and embrace a more nuanced understandings our own beliefs and the beliefs of others." Linda is Lutheran minister who works full time in her visual ministry exploring textiles and creating liturgical art.

Athanasios or "Tom" Clark and his wife Sophia, are proud parents of 5 boys (2 of whom are finishing Mosaic School in Italy) and live in Athens, Greece where Tom works as a full time iconographer. Tom studied for 5 years under Master Iconographer Kostas Tsilsavides in Thessaloniki, Greece. He works closely with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and his icons were featured at the Ecumenical Fraternity in Jerusalem, where he lived and worked for a year in the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Tom's icons are in many churches and homes across the U.S. and abroad. He created the icons in Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church & many of the icons in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, both located in Grand Rapids. Tom is originally from Chicago and his wife Sophia is from Grand Rapids.