great art = great city

 Symphonic's goal is to build a great city in which all people can flourish.  A city without art is not a city where humans can thrive; a great city has great art.  Why is this the case?  The arts are things which possess inherent value; transcendent worth.  When we buy an album or bring home a painting, we don't do it because they are useful, but because they are beautiful.  They send us.  They take us.  Art interrupts biologic necessity and loosens psychological strait jackets with something beyond ourselves.  When we disagree about art it only proves how value exists in some framework other than the one in which we normally live - a dollar's worth of art has no meaning; I only know I love the art and I pay for it.  A city which only has time for "useful" things will not be a city where humans can flourish; it will be restless, cold, heartless.  A city with great art and space for artists to explore and exhibit their art, is a city where real life, real value and real love can increasingly emerge.

We believe in a way of living in this world that looks to Love as that which sets value.  We believe God loves us not because we are useful, but because we are beautiful.  We believe God is the Artist who died to redeem his art when it had been stolen and subjugated to a system which tried to cheapen it and make it only "useful."  For us, then, art sends tremors through the corrupt world and opens up the opportunity to find Value, Beauty, and Love in their highest form: Jesus.

Symphonic sponsors two art exhibits each year as a way to put life to our beliefs.  Renewal is held each spring and centers upon the themes of creation and resurrection.  Each fall we hold a show with a theme that strikes our fancy.  These shows are not "Christian" shows.  We encourage artists of all beliefs (or none) to participate and honestly explore the themes.  For more information regarding art at Symphonic you can email warehouseartshows@gmail.com or you can join our facebook group.