During the next two months I'll be presenting new artworks from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection by Nicaraguan Artist Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz, whose biblical illustrations will be featured in the traveling exhibition, The Bible in Nicaraguan Primitivista Art, which I hope to launch in the near future. Fletes Cruz's naif style of Primitivista image-making is associated with a utopian Christian community, founded in the 1960s in the remote Solentiname island chain at the southern end of Lake Nicaragua to foster a radical form of Christianity committed to economic and social justice. Fletes Cruz was among the artists who came to the Solentiname commune to promotes its goals in the arts. My art selections from Fletes Cruz this month depict stories from the Hebrew Scriptures, beginning with the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and ending with Daniel in the Lions' Den. These stunningly colored images set in lushly tropical Nicaraguan settings can be found in the Old Testament Tales and Heroes of the Bible galleries in the Bible Stories & Parables section. There is also a meditation on the Fletes Cruz painting, The Second Chance: the Ark of Noah, in the Art Reflections gallery of the Moments with Master section. (John Kohan)