HopeArts is a ministry of Hope Chapel in Austin, Texas.
Arts meetings
As we transition to a new arts pastor, we invite Hope
Chapel artists to attend monthly meetings to hang out and
eat together, and discuss plans for the arts ministry for
the upcoming year.
Exhibits
The Home page will have links to calls for entries.
8 Minutes
Max
Performing artists, see the Calendar for the next
opportunity to show your original work in progress.
Classes and
seminars
Check the Calendar to get educated.
Interest
groups
Contact us for information about groups that meet to
encourage, critique, and collaborate on visual art,
writing, and songwriting.
To seek a reformation of the Church in its understanding
and practice of art so that we might be the people of God
experiencing the fullness of beauty, truth and goodness.
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To provide artists with opportunities for community and for
expression.
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To foster creativity in all aspects of the congregation.
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To be a gracious, subversive presence in the city of
Austin.
The Glory of God
Paramount in all our activities is the glory of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. “Thine is the glory,” we remind
ourselves in the Lord’s Prayer; we have seen the glory of
the Christ, the Word enfleshed; and it is the Spirit of
glory who rests upon God’s saints. Thus it is under and on
behalf of that Trinitarian glory that we live and move and
have our being as artists.
Hospitality
We want every artist who participates in the arts ministry
to feel welcome, that they feel encouraged and safe to
perform and display their work, and that both amateurs and
professionals be honored.
Community
Axiomatic to orthodox Christianity is the recognition that
our fullest expression as human beings will come only in
the context of community. In a reflection of our
Trinitarian God, we strive to honor each other in our
relationships, to do our work out of love for our
community, and to foster community among all ages.
Collaboration
The autonomous artist may achieve great success by
gathering fame around himself, but with this success will
also come loneliness and fear, competitiveness and envy. We
believe that collaboration and cooperation in art-making
are able to generate abundant life as well as a profoundly
satisfying experience.
Honesty
Our desire is to encourage the kind of art that honestly
represents the human experience in all its beauty and
ugliness, its romance and despair, its silliness and
gravity. A good story, as Flannery O’Connor once commented,
needs no justification.
Subversion
We desire to subvert our culture with good art, art that is
allusive in its invitation to the Kingdom. We believe that
art can awaken those asleep to the Truth and can expose the
cultural lies that besiege and deform us daily.
Holism
In Genesis 2:9 the writer tells us that the trees God made
were “pleasing to the eye and good for food.” Echoing this
holistic model of creativity, we wish to release artists to
make the art that the Spirit has inspired in them, whether
for practical purposes, such as liturgical or missional
art, or merely for the purpose of aesthetic delight.