Rachel Hostetter Smith, PhD is Gilkison Distinguished Professor of Art History at Taylor University, Indiana, USA. She received her doctorate from Indiana University and was a member of the graduate faculty of the School of Comparative Arts at Ohio University. She publishes on a wide range of topics in the arts in both academic and lay publications. Smith served on the Board of CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts) for many years and is a founding member of ASCHA (the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art). Smith has been a visiting scholar, professor, and seminar leader in Europe, Canada, Indonesia, South Africa, and China. She was Curator and Project Director of Charis: Boundary Crossings --Neighbors Strangers Family Friends, an international traveling exhibition of Asian and North American artists. With the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity she organized the R5: A Studio and Seminar in South Africa and serves as Curator and Project Director of the exhibition Between the Shadow and the Light, which is traveling across the US into 2018. She is currently developing a project in China with the Nagel Institute.