Art House America

Begun by Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock in Nashville, TN, Art House America seeks to "cultivate creative community for the common good". The following quote from Charlie's article Creative Community for the Common Good sums up their vision fairly nicely.

Like a farm that nurtures good health, Art House America is in the business of cultivating creative people who bring good health to people and planet. Sometimes these creative people are artists in the most traditional sense — makers of music, theater, films, dance, paintings, and metalwork. You know the kind. With the word “art” in our name you know we take this seriously. Just as important, though, is our work of encouraging everyone, in everything, to live imaginative and meaningful lives. We really do believe that every human being is made to be a creative contributor, to play his or her role in the artful, meaningful life of caring for people and planet. We really do believe, along with C.S. Lewis, that the imagination is the “organ of meaning,” and that its fruit is creativity of every kind.

This is also similar to what many here at Oak Mountain Church have begun to see manifested within our local context with The REnaissance Project. It is encouraging to see a broader movement throughout the church at large towards such a movement where beauty and creativity are not only accepted, but purposefully developed and encouraged to flourish. May God continue to bring glory to himself through the continued expansion of such a movement.