Past Headliners at the Trinity Arts Conference have included notable plenary speakers as well as respected artists and performers. Here is a partial list from previous years.

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Gregory Wolfe
Writer and Editor

A perennial favorite at the Trinity Arts Conference, Greg is the founder and editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion.

J.A.C Redford
Composer

J.A.C. Redford is an accomplished composer of concert music, film and television scores, and music for the theater.

His concert compositions span a wide range of forms from symphony, choral music and ballet, to art songs and chamber music.

Mr. Redford has orchestrated, arranged, or conducted for Academy Award-winning composers James Horner, Alan Menken and Rachel Portman, as well as for Terence Blanchard, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Marc Shaiman and Cirque du Soleil’s Benoit Jutras, on projects including The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Perfect Storm.

Brooks Williams
Musician

Brooks Williams taught himself to play guitar by listening to blues and jazz records. With a style that sounds like three guitars playing at once, Brooks influences are wide and varied...from Motown to Gospel.

Michelle Mackey
Visual Artist (painting)

Michelle Mackey is a Texas native now living in Brooklyn. Her work marries the peculiarities of our time and culture with the timeless theme of human limitations and frailty, while reflecting the rich traditions and constantly shifting language of painting over the past 60 years.

Kate Campbell
Musician

With an endearing, clear-water vocal delivery, and an eloquent gift for storytelling, Kate Campbell has been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Live From Mountain Stage".

Alan Jacobs
Writer

Alan Jacobs is Professor of English and the director of the faculty Faith and Learning program at Wheaton College. His most recent books are "A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age" and "A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love."

Pierce Pettis
Musician

Pierce Pettis' songs have been covered by luminaries like Joan Baez, Dar Williams and Garth Brooks. A writer above all else, he pens insightful and evocative lyrics that are alternately beautiful, humorous, and haunting.

Edward Knippers
Visual Artist

John Mason Hodges
Conductor and professor

Ken Myers
Editor of Mars Hill Audio Journal

Mary McCleary
Visual Artist

Dr. Louise Cowen

Virginia Stem-Owens
Author

Jeanne Murray Walker
Author

Calvin Miller
Pastor, professor, author, and artist

Leland Ryken

Bill Malonee
Singer/Songwriter

Vigilantes of Love
Singer/Songwriters

Charlie Peacock
Musician, Songwriter, Producer

Jan Crist

John Poch
Poet

Sandra Bowden
Artist and CIVA president

Todd Kappelman
Founder of Veritas House
Founder of Club Dada's Tuesday Night Forum

Jeff Hanson
Writer

Reg Grant