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Mexican bingo cards, or lotería, are an unlikely starting point for Talmudic exploration. But artist Dana Kadison and letterpress printer Earl Kallemeyn use the form to create art works that explore texts, including religious texts. They work with letterpress type, digitally create images, and hand-­­letter other text. Kallemyen prints the works on old machinery. In Freud’s Last Words, the handwritten quote is from a section of the Babylonian Talmud in which the rabbis addressed dreams. The text fence around the quote includes commentary and other readings.

In Renaissance painting, Jerome is usually shown in his study translating the Bible into Latin. Here Andrea del Castagno (1410–1457) depicts Jerome’s vision of the Trinity, a much rarer subject. Jerome is flanked by Eustochium and her mother, Paula, Jerome’s beloved disciple and associate.

When DeAmon Harges and some of his Indianapolis neighbors found 25 doors dumped in an alley, they shared them with The Learning Tree, a neighborhood association. The Door Project funded the work of local artists, who created 64 colorful doors that share the narratives of the city’s African-American communities. Derek Tuder’s “No BOBS” door is accompanied by a statement: “Tupac and Biggie, two of the biggest martyrs to black-on-black slayings. We count the cost and the tears.”