Meet our contributors
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Michael Elgamal
@creativeorthodox | creativeorthodox.com
I'm Michael, an Orthodox Christian artist. I started Creative Orthodox as a platform to entertain, inform and inspire Orthodox Christians around the globe to pursue virtue in the lives of the saints through the power of storytelling.
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Monica Iskander
@faithandhand | faithandhand.etsy.com
Faith and Hand is a sacred arts studio devoted to preserving the beauty of the Orthodox Christian tradition through illuminated manuscripts and calligraphy. Each work is created by hand uniting ancient craftsmanship with the life of the Church today.
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Laura Makary
Hi! I’m Laura, a creator inspired by her Creator. I share Christ’s love for us through icons, glass, wood, ceramics, and metal. “For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” –Psalm 139:13-14
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Kirollos Kilada
@kilada_copticicons | kkilada.com
As an iconographer, Kirollos endeavours to produce icons which are in symphony with centuries of Coptic tradition, firmly rooted in Art History and Orthodox Theology, through an approach that is dynamic and contemporary.
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Nicole Shokry
Nicole devotes her work to exploring the intersections of the limitations of material with the limitlessness of truth and beauty. Rooted in Coptic iconography and traditional art forms, she works to bridge the gap between what is seemingly lost. Through layered symbolic material and storytelling, she seeks to create images that touch upon the immaterial.
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Grace Soliman
I work at the intersection of art and architecture, drawing from memory, culture, and the belief that sacred space should be experienced by and accessible to everyone. My work is the product of a desire to create for the One who created us first.
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Kyrollos Sharobim
I am an icon painter, working in both analog and digital mediums. I love exploring creative ways to create historical compositions for 21st century liturgical and personal contexts!
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George Makary
Makary is an iconographer who through his work aims to enable relationship, encounter, and love, all in the context of sacred space and liturgy.
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Carol Markos
Poetry