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Artists like Cherith Lundin help you look at space and light differently. You begin to notice, for example, how light falls on white to create shades of pinky gray. “My work traces the architectural contours of everyday life in search of new ways of seeing, knowing, and imagining place,” writes the Minnesota-born artist, an associate professor of art at Wheaton College.

The poetic language of Martin Luther King Jr. gave form and direction to the civil rights movement, and it has also given shape to many memorials erected in his memory. The national monument to King in Washington, D.C., erected in 2011, appears to be sliced from a granite peak, evoking King’s famous words spoken at the the nearby Lincoln Memorial: “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” Recently, the City of Portland, Maine, an­nounced a competition to design its own memorial to King. Among the finalists is the sculptor Robert Katz.