Artists

KATHLEEN PETERSON was born the third child of a third child to school￾teacher parents in Provo, Utah. Having been raised with the idea that the best education is travel she has lived in the Virgin Islands, Malaysia, and Hawaii and traveled throughout southeast Asia and Central and South America. As an artist she is continually learning painting with oils and watercolors, illustrating books, making batiks, and building clay figures. She and her husband have four grown children and live on a farm in Spring City in Sanpete Valley, Utah, with two mules, eight free-range chickens, and Maggie the Dog. She paints landscapes, architecture, and people, using oils, watercolors, pastels, and batik. Kathy also enjoys illustrating books and publications. Books include A World of Faith by Peggy Fletcher Stack, featuring twenty-eight world religions; The Stones of the Temple by J. Frederic Voros, about the building of the Salt Lake Temple; seven books of fables by Carol Lynn Pearson including The Lesson, What Love Is, Will You Still Be My Daughter?, A Strong Man, Girlfriend!, The Gift, and A Sister; Koa’s Seed, a Hawaiian legend by Carolyn Han; Moon Mangoes by Lindy Shapiro; and Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur Krishna.

MARLENA WILDING holds a BA in visual arts from Brigham Young University. She began depicting her Black heritage as a student and finds herself asking profound questions about race and gender with her visual matter. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington with her loving husband and two toddlers.

BRUCE HIXSON SMITH (1936–) is an emeritus professor of painting at Brigham Young University. Bruce is known for figure, still life, and religious iconography in his paintings and printmaking. His images represent the painstaking search to reconcile the physical medium of paint with the transcendent truths of Christ’s story. He currently lives in Utah with his wife, Mary, and continues to inspire many artists through his creative process and philosophy on the sacred nature of creating devotional art.

Caitlin Connolly is an artist and writer. Since graduating in 2009 from the University of Utah with a BFA in Painting and Drawing she has passionately pursued and cultivated her creative path. Driven by a curiosity of femininity, her work explores the deficit of the divine feminine and paradoxical themes of duality.

Connolly currently lives and works in Provo, Utah, USA. with her husband and twin sons. https://www.caitlinconnolly.com/

I’m Amber Eldredge – the painter & mother behind The Color Amber!

I live in Orem, Utah with my husband, Parker, & our three darling girls. They are my greatest joys!

I am Utah-born & raised – and proud of it! I loved growing up surrounded by so many kind, creative people. I’ve learned so much about how to work hard & follow my passions by following their lead.

Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a paintbrush in hand. My biggest dream has always been to share my life through artwork, and now I get to do just that! I couldn’t feel more grateful or honored to know that so many strangers have opened their homes & hearts to my paintings. https://thecoloramber.me/

KWANI POVI WINDER explores her Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa heritage through painting and draws on her religious beliefs when portraying a native figure. Through her paintings, she seeks to preserve, share, and educate about her unique heritage.

I’m happily married with wonderful kids and a lot of books. I’m also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

My interests include reading (particularly history, social justice, science, tech, publishing, and sf&f), typesetting/bookmaking, design, writing, art, coding, languages (particularly dead ones), genealogy, and geography/cartography.

https://tshikamba.com/

https://jenedypaige.com/