ARC

The Society for Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture: A Creative Collaborative for Theopoetics

There is a space where making meaning and finding meaning intertwine and overlap; a space where religion is queered and queried by intuition, where art is leavened by community, commitment, and an awareness that all things are bound in kinship. It is a space where the shared materials of the arts and religion are sifted and sculpted and cast into bricks, formed into vessels and shelters, woven into garments and spun into stories and songs. What comes out of this labor, the artifacts and experiences and ideas that emerge from this hybrid space is what we call Theopoetics.

ARC was founded to identify, articulate, and explore these experiences and artifacts and ideas, to map, however provisionally, this evolving, fertile, dynamic district of intellectual and creative inquiry.

ARC is, and always will be, a collaborative community for those who cultivate embodied and just ways of knowing and being through creative and spiritual practices. We envision a just world where creativity and spirituality work together to promote the flourishing of all creation.