Third’s gallery is a rotating showcase of work created by artists in our church and community.
The artwork in Third’s gallery changes with the liturgical seasons, offering artists’ perspectives on the themes of the season, our communal life as a church, and their own personal stories. We believe that creativity and craftsmanship are gifts from God, the original and ultimate Creator.
Our vision is to offer a venue for artists to share those gifts with the wider community, and our mission is to display and celebrate beauty, inspire curiosity, disrupt apathy, challenge assumptions, delight the senses and prompt worship.
Viewing art and engaging thoughtfully with it can be a spiritual formation practice: God can disciple us by the art to understand and appreciate his world and ourselves in it. We hope that viewers will not only enjoy the gallery, but be moved or changed by it in some way.
Next Installation: “Joy”
This next installation will remain up all Summer long. Submissions my be new or old creations! Submissions due by Monday, May 18.
Prompt: Fear. Grief. Anxiety. Despair. The burdens we carry as exiles in this violent and turbulent world will test our souls to the breaking point. And yet, joy is engrained and woven through our lives, and it will find us if we let it. Consider: Where has joy found you? Have you known the comfort, restoration, and joy that is offered from a loving, faithful, and all-mighty God? How has it changed or motivated you?
Article: “The Language of Joy: The Allure of Three Insatiable Letters”
Article: “A Different Kind of Joy”
Book: Joy: 100 Poems by Christian Wiman
Book: Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler