The Purpose: Cultivating Creative Community for the Common Good
Art House Dallas hopes to provide creative nurture, mentoring, hospitality, and access to vocational and spiritual counsel all the while promoting the seamless life of Christian discipleship and imaginative living. Similar to the work of the original Art House in Nashville, our goal is to communicate the worth and necessity of all vocations (paid and unpaid) and to give people access to gifted speakers, teachers, and artists. All Art House Dallas programs will promote community life and world engagement — helping people become more and more interested in the same things that Jesus is interested in. Executive Director of Art House Dallas, Jenny White, describes the bigger vision for Art House Dallas more fully in this video:
Art House Dallas from Charlie Peacock on Vimeo.
For extra information, please read Charlie Peacock's blog entry, "Creative Community for the Common Good," which includes his vision: "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. What’s the Art House about? It’s about: Cultivating creative community for the common good — encouraging everyone to live imaginative and meaningful lives."
