Director: Justin Carlson

Beauty Table

Beauty Table is a hospitality-forward organization that seeks to stir our imaginations toward a more beautiful community. We are creating spaces that form us as artists, but more importantly, as people. We believe that beauty is relational, and that art-making is a discipline rooted in abundance, not scarcity — a participation in a distinctive kind of resistance to the darkness, cynicism, and despair in our world. We want to see our imaginations stirred toward beautiful and redemptive ends.         

We’re cultivating a community where artists can thrive. Not just as creatives, but as whole people. We provide mentorship, small groups, events, and the space to create art and share experiences. There’s a seat at this table for everyone — to meet others, grow together, and make something beautiful. 

We need artists. 

Even more, we need healthy artists. We need them to be a prophetic voice in an age of fragmentation. We need them to teach us the urgency of beauty and mystery, the abundance of the cruciform life, the reality of new creation. We need to continue to create spaces that invite honesty and imagination -- spaces that invite all of us to understand the glorious breadth of our humanity. We want to see lives transformed. We want to be a light in the dark, a picture of what an arts community can look like.