Artists

AMBER LEE WEISS {[email protected]} is from Texas and lives in Houston. In addition to making art, Amber is an actress, serves in her ward’s youth program, has a part-time retail job, is an army-wife, and loves to dabble in various creative pursuits. She is married and has three small daughters. Amber started to make magazine collages ten years ago but didn’t start calling it art until two years ago. Her Instagram is @amberlieves.

North Carolina–based artist MIKENZI JONES is the artist behind Kenzi Studio Co. Mikenzi’s art embraces diversity, beautiful natural tones, and earthy boho vibes. Mikenzi has a BFA in graphic design from Brigham Young University– Idaho and has been working as a freelance designer and illustrator for the past ten years. When she’s not creating designs and prints through her Etsy shop, Mikenzi is busy being a mom to two small boys. Follow @kenzistudioco for new art.

KIRSTEN SPARENBORG {[email protected]} makes art that is explorative, cartographic, earth-bound. Her work interprets the emotional power of place in peoples’ lives, using watercolor, ink, and collage. Maps, mountains/landscape, and sketches/studies offer a visual memory of place at three scales: aerial, distant yet omnipresent, and intimate/inhabited. Altogether, the work may be called architectural map-drawings because it is Kirsten’s education and practice as an architect and urban designer that led her to appreciate and manifest the sensory value of places. Learn more at www.turnofthecenturies.com.

GARY ERNEST SMITH lives and works at his home and studio with his wife Judy in Highland, Utah. They have four married children and eight grandchildren. The major projects he has done for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are murals for the Nauvoo temple, the Samoa Temple, the Brigham City Temple, and the Provo City Tabernacle Temple. He has individual paintings hanging in numerous temples and church buildings throughout the world. He continues today to produce paintings the church uses for whatever capacity they need.

M. ALICE ABRAMS is an illustrator and printmaker specializing in linoleum block print and watercolor located in Vancouver, Washington. Her artwork reflects her religious convictions and insights, as well as her experiences with parenthood. Her goal is to create simple yet poignant artwork that makes people feel loved and welcomed in the gospel. When not busy carving or painting, she is trying to keep up with her lively daughters and dog with her husband.

ROSE DATOC DALL is a Filipina American artist who is an award-winning contemporary figurative painter known for her bold colors and graphic compositions. Her most iconic pieces are sacred works on the life of the Savior. Rose received her BFA in fine art studio and art history from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Rose is a wife and mother of four adult children, and grandmother or “Lola” to three grandchildren.

DAWN DAVIS-LIM migrated to Australia from England as a young adult. She worked as an intuitive artist before graduating with honors in art from Federation University. Her work has been collected across the globe, and she is the recipient of numerous awards for her Daoist-inspired, abstract work. She lives a peaceful, creative, spiritual life with her husband, Chai, in Avoca, Victoria.

HAYLEY LABRUM MORRISON {[email protected]} (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from Salt Lake City, Utah living and working in Austin, Texas. Morrison’s recent solo exhibitions include Tinkling Ornaments at Martha’s Contemporary and Of(f) the Body at Dougherty Arts Center. She also cocurated Howdy, Stranger, a forty-artist exhibition at FOUNDRY for the 2021 Austin Studio Tour. She created and co-runs the ongoing critique group Crit Nites, and co-founded concept animals in 2020. See more of her work at www.hayley.co or follow her on Instagram @hayleylabrummorrison.

SUSANA SILVA {[email protected]} was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her art studies in 1995 and obtained the degree of Teacher and Professor of Visual Arts specializing in painting. She continued her research with materials until she was finally able to develop herself in the technique of hand-cut paper that works better with the demands that her image imposes. She served as an LDS missionary in Rosario, Argentina. She is married and a mother of two children.

ESTHER HI’ILANI CANDARI is primarily a figurative artist who explores concepts such as multiracial identity; gender and the female gaze in the context of religion; and the connections between ecology, culture, and sense of place. Much of her work draws upon her experiences growing up in Hawai’i in an Asian American mixed-race household. She holds a BFA from BYU-H and an MFA from Liberty University and has studied at the New York Academy of Art.