Robert O. Hodgell is this week's featured American Printmaker, the subject of a new profile in the Sacred Artists section. The son of a Methodist minister, he heard enough sermons growing up in Kansas to view the institutional church as an adult with a jaundiced eye, but his abiding fascination with the foundational stories of his childhood faith found expression in a body of work unique in American sacred art. Hodgell took frequent aim in satirical prints at the sacred cows of American religion, lampooning Protestant Fundamentalist beliefs in a literal seven day Creation in a linocut (left) showing Adam and Eve in what might well be Jurassic Park. Yet, he also created a a cycle of graphic images of the Passion of Christ so intense in its expressionism the viewer cannot help but respond in a visceral way. (John Kohan)