Household Saints
Expanded Stoneroller Household Saints Design & Communication Apostles
- Sister Corita Kent (USA) – Pop-prints for peace.
- Victor Papanek (Austria/USA) – Prophet of anti-consumer design.
- Paula Scher (USA) – Type as thunderclap.
- Mike Monteiro (USA) – Patron of righteous client redirection.
- Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, Canada) – Saint of storytelling through shape. Her prints radiate spirit.
Artists & Makers of Righteous Mess
- El Anatsui (Ghana) – Sculptor of transformation. Patron of reassembled beauty and postcolonial memory.
- Wangechi Mutu (Kenya/USA) – Saint of hybrid mythologies. Her collages invoke ancestral and sci-fi healing.
- Zarina Hashmi (India) – Printmaker of memory and exile. Saint of quiet maps and paper prayers.
- Yayoi Kusama (Japan) – Patron of patterned persistence. Made art her cosmos and her shield.
Printmakers, Scribes & Lettering Prophets
- Emory Douglas (USA) – Art as liberation architecture.
- Barbara Kruger (USA) – Text-as-truth crusader.
- Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. (USA) – Prints that punch.
- Lemi Ghariokwu (Nigeria) – Artist of Fela Kuti’s album covers. Designed entire revolutions in visual style.
- Qiu Zhijie (China) – Cartographer of philosophy and power. Patron of maps that make you think.
Teachers, Healers & Builders of Alternate Systems
- bell hooks (USA) – Radical pedagogy mama.
- Octavia Butler (USA) – Apocalypse midwife.
- Malidoma Patrice Somé (Burkina Faso) – Dagara elder and teacher of indigenous wisdom for modern souls.
- Miriam Makeba (South Africa) – Song as weapon, style as resistance.
- Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone) – Former child soldier turned advocate and writer. Patron of reclaimed youth.
Clerics of the Everyday Sacred
- Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnam) – Sage of still water and deep looking.
- Wendell Berry (USA) – Soil whisperer and Sabbath defender.
- Howard Thurman (USA) – Mystic of movement stillness.
- Dorothy Day (USA) – Holy hellraiser with a newspaper.
- Rabia al-Adawiyya (Iraq, 8th c.) – Sufi saint of divine love. Prayed barefoot on hot coals to burn away ego.
Liturgical & Folk Spiritual Visionaries
- Hildegard of Bingen (Germany) – Visionary composer, nun, and medical botanist. Inventor of holy weird.
- Pádraig Ó Tuama (Ireland) – Queer priest of poetry and paradox.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés (USA/Mexico) – Jungian storyteller, healer of the wild feminine.
- Miriam Were (Kenya) – Public health crusader and spiritual elder. Her work bridges wellness and ritual care.
- Koans & Bodhisattvas Collective (East Asia) – Saints of paradox and patience. Patrons of the “why are you even asking that?” moment in design critique.
Movement Builders & Prophets
- Wangari Maathai (Kenya) – Tree planter, world changer. Saint of green revolutions and patient fury.
- Arundhati Roy (India) – Architect of sentence-as-slap. Patron of radical clarity.
- Ai Weiwei (China) – Patron of the inconvenient artwork.
- Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) – Saint of bulletproof courage and the sharpened schoolgirl pencil.
- Angela Davis (USA) – The prophetic voice that never flinched. Saint of principled resistance.
- Berta Cáceres (Honduras, Lenca) – Indigenous leader and environmental martyr. Her voice still haunts bulldozers.