The Arts Collective at All Saints

Our Vision

The All Saints’ Art Collective is a community that makes art for the flourishing of All Saints’ Church and the blessing of New England. Because we believe that the making of art influences the artists, spaces, observers, and participants that come into contact with the work, we believe that the impact of the art produced in the community will ripple beyond the community of artists. The primary hope is to be a people that practice making art.

We hope to step outside of the tendency to be primarily critics and consumers and courageously enter into the space of creation, thereby subjecting ourselves to the critique and consumption of others. While the primary purpose of the Arts Collective is simply to make art, the hope is that it will also be a community that encourages the artists themselves. Art making is very difficult and vulnerable. The Arts Collective seeks to create a safe space for the practice of art making by providing regular deadlines and opportunities for feedback through the monthly meetings.

While the Arts Collective wants to maintain an encouraging posture, we also want to refine one another’s work in the pursuit of true beauty. Naïve niceness is something we want to move beyond in order to enter into loving kindness and encouragement. After all, no piece of art is “right.” It is a vulnerable effort to identify truth and beauty in God, in the church, in the self, in others, and in the world. In this effort, we hope to cultivate a culture of vulnerability, beauty, hope, honesty, and freedom. 

Spring Schedule

All workshops meet from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at All Saints Church.

Our Framework for Practice

Workshops begin with time for prayer and stillness. Members then break-out into small groups based on their disciplines:

Visual Art & Design
Music & Songwriting
Written Word

Each small group is led by an artist who will provide structure for presentation and feedback. The entire group regathers at the end of the time to share work across disciplines and to make space is for collaboration. The group closes in prayer to thank God for the work of making art and to release the work that has been done back to Him.