The St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art was established in 1993 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to encourage artists to carry on the centuries-old tradition of creating sacred imageries. In today's world, encompassed in secularism, the Institute aspires to promote, encourage and support religious art and artists, all for the glory of God.

St. Bernadette Institute is important to today's Church because of the vocations it will foster. The Institute's obligation, then, is to offer these artists spontaneous contemplation, to allow their spirits to soar high above the level of every day worries, temptations, and aggravations - pointing them in the direction of the true values of their important calling.

The Institute has achieved national and international fame for its work in encouraging young liturgical artists. Its collection is immense, but was confined to a physical collection, and a library of 35mm slides. The challenge for epagentry was to compile the Institute's incredible work in a consistent format that was easy to navigate, and inexpensive to distribute to current and future Institute members and supporters.