Our sisters have a wide array of talents and skills, including many accomplished artists, authors and musicians in a variety of media. All are generous with their work, but they ask that those wishing to use any of their pieces request permission and use proper attribution.
If you would like to request permission to use a piece of art, please fill out our quick contact form.
This list is by no means comprehensive and continues to grow!
Meet some of our sister artists
Therese Denham, CSJ
Therese Denham, CSJ has a certification in communications and a degree in art with an emphasis in graphic design. She currently works with mandalas and zentangles.
Donna Gibbs, CSJ
The late Donna Gibbs, CSJ wrote and illustrated children’s books with ecological themes. Her books help parents and educators midwife a new wisdom in our children, since they now inherit the ability to influence everything that happens to living Earth. Two of her books are available for purchase: The Seamless Universe: A Discovery Guide through Our Great Universe and The Quilter and the Quail. A teacher for 30 years in the elementary classroom, Sister Donna had a degree in child development and master’s in Earth literacy and art therapy.
Ansgar Holmberg, CSJ
The late Ansgar Holmberg, CSJ was a deeply spiritual contemplative, whose award-winning and imaginative folk art flowed from her buoyant spirit and serious conviction about care of the Earth and the least among us.
Marion C. Honors, CSJ
Marion C. Honors, CSJ, has exhibited her art nationally and internationally. Sister Marion’s work includes relief and intaglio prints, monoprints, monotypes, drawings and paintings, collages, painted embossments and monotype printmaking with water-based inks. She has painted embossments and illustrations for children’s books and other publications. Her latest work is an exploration of what she calls “painting/print assemblages.”
Marion has a master of arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master of fine arts degree from Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. She has taught art in high school and college.
Carol Louise Smith, CSJ
Carol Louise Smith, CSJ is an artist using various media, including graphic design, photography, sketching and watercolor. After 30 years of ministry in elementary education, she went back to school for a degree in graphic design from UCLA and now works in the communications department for our Los Angeles Province. Her work is used in publications, brochures, liturgy worship aides, business cards, electronic e-designs newsletters, cards, prints, and more.
Meet some of our sister musicians
Sally Koch, CSJ
Sally Koch, CSJ has always had a musical heart. She grew up playing piano and organ and singing at her local Catholic church, where her mother directed the choir. Songwriting has been something she has wanted to do for a while. During the pandemic, she found time and space to grow her skills and fulfill her dream of creating an album. In January 2022, she released “Use Your Voice,” her first album. Sally’s music is born from her own personal prayer, and she hopes her listeners will feel a sense of being seen through her lyrics. May this music transport you to your center and to the Divine who loves you dearly.
Read some of our sisters’ books
Anything of Which a Woman is Capable:
A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 1
by Mary M. McGlone, CSJ
Anyone who wants to know more about where and why the sisters did what they did will find interesting responses in the lives of the women chronicled in this volume. Covering a geography from New York City to Los Angeles and Superior, Wisconsin to Florida, you will meet sisters who struggled with poverty and adversity, all for the sake of the people they called their “Dear Neighbor.”
Called Forth by the Dear Neighbor:
A History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States, Volume 2
by Mary M. McGlone, CSJ
Volume II of the History of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the USA describes how sisters responded to the needs of their neighbors. Establishing congregations and institutions from New York to Hawaii and from Maine to Orange, California, thousands of Sisters of St. Joseph expressed their love of God through service to their neighbors as women of the Church.
Responding to the Dear Neighbor:
A Sampling of the ministries of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
by the Los Angeles Province
Explore 27 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet ministries highlighting the sisters’ legacy developed to meet the needs of the dear neighbor.
Trek of the Seven Sisters:
Pilgrimage Companion Guide
by Mary Sloper with Mary Murphy, CSJ and Trek Committee; design by Carol Louise Smith, CSJ
This book tells the story of the seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (CSJs) who traveled from St. Louis to Tucson in 1870. Whether you use the book as a pilgrimage guide and travel the Trek yourself, or read it in the comfort of your favorite chair, you will come to appreciate the courage, perseverance, and faith these seven women had to travel on a new mission for the “dear neighbor.”