Jess Sweeney is director of the Collegium Institute’s Ars Vivendi Arts Initiative and is the co-founder of a new collective serving women of faith pursuing callings as both mothers and creatives, Wellspring: A Mother Artist Project. Her work has appeared in Dappled Things, The Curator, Everyday Mamas, The Young Catholic Woman, and Genealogies of Modernity Journal. She is a wife, mother, and artist living in the city of Philadelphia. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter.