Craig Goodworth received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Liberal Studies in Sustainable Communities through Northern Arizona University. He has also spent time traveling through Europe and as an artist-in-residence at an Eastern Orthodox monastic community in rural northern New Mexico. Currently, he is working on a collection of writings through the Tom Mullen Writing Fellowship at the Earlham School of Religion and is completing a low residency MFA through Azusa Pacific University. Being raised in Arizona’s Sonoran desert formed an early intrigue within him for the relationship between himself and the paradoxically intimate and indifferent qualities of the desert’s environment. This continues to influence his art as he seeks to explore spiritual landscapes through material ones.