The Arts Collective
at All Saints Church
Our Framework for Practice
The 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. Our primary hope is to be a people who practice making art.
We aim to step outside of the tendency to be critics and consumers, and we courageously enter into the space of creation. 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 can be quite difficult and vulnerable, and so the Arts Collective seeks to create a safe environment for the practice of art making. We give ourselves regular deadlines and opportunities for feedback through the monthly workshops.
While the Arts Collective seeks 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've decided to move beyond in order to provide for one another true 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.
The Spring 2025 Theme
“Who is it you are looking for?”
… "I have seen the Lord!"
Spring 2025 Schedule
Workshop One | January 29
Workshop Two | February 26
Workshop Three | March 26
Spring Arts Cafe | April 25
John 20:11-25a
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”). Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”
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