The Sacred Art Pilgrim took to the road this summer in search of a new style of icon-making centered in the West Ukrainian city of Lviv and found examples in plenty at the ICONART Contemporary Sacred Art Gallery in the city's old Armenian Quarter. The new iconographers from this historic crossroads on the border of East and West belong to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which claims allegiance to the Holy See in Rome but follows the Eastern Orthodox form of worship, including the veneration of icons. Drawing on a variety of local sacred art traditions from 15th century Byzantine to pre-war Art Deco and early Modernist art, they are helping to revitalize a culture of sacred art-making all but lost during fifty years of Communist persecution, when the church was disbanded and Greek Catholics worshipped in the underground. Line up four modern icons in the traditional style and you would be able to identify the artists only by careful study of their differences. The contemporary school of icon-making in Lviv is marked by distinctive styles of imagery associated with specific artists who often sign their works. A large number of them are women. For a closer look at this new school of icon-making, which is expanding the appeal of an ancient Eastern Orthodox art form among the broader universal church community, visit the New Iconography of Lviv page in the Schools of Sacred Art Section. (John Kohan)