Heather Belnap is Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies and the newly-appointed Global Women's Studies Coordinator at Brigham Young University. She has presented and published widely in feminist art history, and particularly on women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art and society. Recently, she has turned her attention to the fields of Utah and Mormon studies. Professor Belnap is the author, with Corry Cropper and Daryl Lee, of Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-century France (University of Illinois Press, 2022), winner of the John Whitmer Historical Association's 2023 Best Book Award. She has co-edited two books, Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 (Ashgate, 2011) and Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914 (Routledge, 2014) and published numerous articles and essays in feminist art history and cultural studies.

Ashlee Whitaker Evans is the former Head Curator and the Roy & Carol Christensen Curator of Religious Art at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Her research interests span religious art and visual culture, as well as western regional American art. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine, In the Arena: The Art of Mahonri Young, The Interpretation Thereof: Contemporary LDS Art and Scripture, Capturing the Canyons: Artists in the National Parks, Loving Devotion: Visions of Vishnu, and Moving Pictures: C.C.A Christensen’s Mormon Panorama.

Brontë Hebdon is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and an adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, The State University of New York. Her research has been supported by the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textile and Fashion History at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, as well as New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship. She is the curator of two exhibitions for the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts that focus on the art, visual culture, and belief systems of the Latter-day Saint tradition.