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.

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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.

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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.