About
God Loves Art
God Loves Art is a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation based in Boise, Idaho, helping artists grow in their art, creativity, faith in Christ, and connection with others.
Our work includes art ministry courses, creative community, exhibitions, gatherings, prison art programs, and partnerships with artists and organizations.
Art matters. The creativity of artists is one of the ways God loves the world.
Why a Benefit Corporation?
Our courses, memberships, and products sustain the company while making meaningful work that serves people and gives back to communities.
As a Benefit Corporation, we’re committed to financial sustainability and the public good, and we report annually on the impact of our work.
Meet Jessie Nilo
Founder · Artist · Teacher · Foundations Instructor
BFA Illustration and BA Graphic Design, Boise State University, 2006
Jessie Nilo desperately wanted to be a full-time art monk.
In 2004, Jessie started a visual art and writing ministry at her church, first as a volunteer and then as part-time staff. She loved bringing the arts and ministry together. But when she asked to work full-time at the church, the church said they couldn’t afford it.
She was heartbroken. But God had other plans.
To supplement her income, Jessie began teaching teenagers at a private fine arts school where she discovered some of the most meaningful art ministry happens outside the church. Then she won a grant to bring art into prisons.
Those years expanded her understanding of art, ministry, and ways to bring creativity into everyday life.
Jessie’s work as a live painter, muralist, teacher, and creative facilitator has taken her into churches, fine art schools, prisons, businesses, city events, music festivals, and communities. Jessie’s artwork speaks to beauty and movement through her playful contour line and colorful brush strokes.
She founded God Loves Art in 2015, where she teaches art ministry to share all she learned. Jessie invites people around the world to share, explore, experiment, and discover where God will lead them in art ministry.
A life of making
Murals, live painting, illustration, and creative facilitation.
Meet Amy Hui
coFounder · Artist · designer · Foundations graduate
BFA Visual Communication / Digital Design , American InterContinental University, 2005
When Amy signed up for Jessie’s art ministry course, she had no idea where it would lead.
Amy was living in Texas when she joined Jessie’s online Foundations course. Curious and unafraid to ask questions, Amy’s participation grew into a mentoring relationship and creative business partnership.
Amy moved to Idaho, where she and Jessie became neighbors and art-making friends as well as cofounders of God Loves Art. They didn’t need to make the same kind of art—or even approach creativity the same way—to learn from and encourage each other.
Amy brings her background in design, and visual communication to God Loves Art. She’s a painter and mixed media artist who explores ideas of voice and belonging through her art. Amy also creates in assemblage, bringing discarded and found objects together to tell a visual story.
Making the unseen visible
Painting, mixed media, assemblage, and visual storytelling.
Behind the Scenes with Jessie and Amy
