Nurture Nurture Maya Freelon Asante | Courtesy of the artist and Morton Fine Art | maya-freelonasante.squarespace.com and www.mortonfineart.com More

“Tomorrow” by Eric Drooker. Click on the picture above to visit the artist’s website ( www.drooker.com ). “Tomorrow” by Eric Drooker. Click on the picture above to visit the artist’s website (www.drooker.com). More

“Terminal City” by Eric Drooker. Click on the picture above to visit the artist’s website ( www.drooker.com ). “Terminal City” by Eric Drooker. Click on the picture above to visit the artist’s website (www.drooker.com). More

Al Rendon © 2013 ( alrendon.com ) Ronald Rocha , a photograph from the Mi Cultura series by San Antonio artist Al Rendon. Al Rendon © 2013 (alrendon.com). / Ronald Rocha, a photograph from the Mi Cultura series by San Antonio artist Al Rendon. More

Past Tense Present Past Tense Present Maya Freelon Asante | Courtesy of the artist and Morton Fine Art | maya-freelonasante.squarespace.com and www.mortonfineart.com More

Dadara ( dadara.nl ). Money hangs from the branches of the Transformoney Tree at Burning Man. Created by Amsterdam-based artist Dadara, this art installation invited passers-by to glue bills to the tree, thereby erasing their financial value. Dadara (dadara.nl). / Money hangs from the branches More

POOR Magazine ( poormagazine.org ) Displacement = Death: a collaborative mural created by lead artists Carina Lomeli, Asian Robles, Muteado Silencio, Charles Pitts, Vivian Thorp, Jasmine Hain, and many more under the auspices of POOR Magazine. POOR Magazine (poormagazine.org More

Janet McKenzie Could Christianity survive without the cross? Lawrence Swaim calls on Christians to embrace a new central symbol such as a parent nurturing a child. In this painting, Epiphany , artist Janet McKenzie reimagines the story of the Magi. Janet McKenzie. / Could Christianity survive More

Adrian Ferbeyre ( adrianferbeyre.daportfolio.com ) “As anyone who hasstayed up through thenight with an ill childknows, parenthood isall about self-sacrifice,” the author writes. Here, artist Adrian Ferbeyrereinterprets The GivingTree , Shel Silverstein’s beloved story of nurturingand sacrifice More

Mari Meade Montoya Dancing in the nude during an Easter Sunday worship service, performance artist Lawrence Graham Brown (pictured above with his assistant Leon Dozier) challenged Rev. Schaper’s congregation to see Jesus in a new way. Mari Meade Montoya. / Dancing in the nude during an Easter More

Creative Commons/Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Jesus heals a paralyzed man at the Pool of Bethesda in this painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Images of such marvels abound, but artists struggle to illustrate what was perhaps Jesus’s most miraculous act—his success at spreading radical new ideas More

Building Bridges and Katherine Chilcote ( clevelandmurals.org ) “Love can’t carry us all the way to the Other,” the author writes. “We need communities of responsibility.” To create this mural, Envisioning Racial Fairness, artist Katherine Chilcote worked with the Racial Fairness Project of More

Prison Creative Arts Project The sign on the cage in this painting, Deep Sense of Need by incarcerated artist Bryan Picken reads, “For Disposal.” This acrylic painting and the art on pages 33, 35, and 38 all come out of the Michigan-based Prison Creative Arts Project. Prison Creative Arts More

Michael D’Antuono ( artandresponse.com ) “White supremacy is the handmaiden of capitalism, serving to fuel, justify, and strengthen it at every turn,” Pinkard writes. Artist Michael D’Antuono created this painting, A Tale of Two Hoodies , following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teen More