In my continuing survey of new icons and iconographers represented in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection, we travel this week into the heart of the Byzantine world to meet mother and daughter icon-makers on the island of Crete. In a workshop in the capital of Heraklion, Eka and Eri Fragiadaki have dedicated themselves to creating quality, hand-crafted holy images at a price ordinary people can afford, cutting down costs by making smaller icons on simpler themes out of materials they prepare, themselves, often "repurposing" stones and driftwood. The Fragiadakis are respectful of their Eastern Orthodox sacred art heritage, using motifs drawn from historic icons and frescoes, carrying on the traditions of countless self-taught “hidden” women artists whose contributions to church art have gone unrecognized down the centuries. The new Eka and Eri Fragiadaki profile page can be found in the Sacred Artists listings. (John Kohan)