Box Gallery

Where Faith and Creativity Meet

The Faith and Arts Fund was created to celebrate the powerful connection between faith and creativity. We aim to serve our community, empower artists and worship leaders, spark spiritual inspiration, and encourage the arts as part of worship. Thanks to this commitment, we regularly showcase the work of talented local artists and students in the Box Gallery. Curious about what’s next? Bookmark this page to keep updated on upcoming exhibitions and receptions. We look forward to seeing you there! Our current exhibition, YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE, features the works of artist Nathan Fan. About the artist (in his own words) - I work mostly with ink, paper, and gold leaf to depict stories that inspire the imagination, particularly in the theme of faith and morals. My approach to my art practice involves blending the elements of storytelling, academic research, devotional hagiography, theology, art history, and philosophy of aesthetics. When I consider the power of art, I think of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," a poem that begins by beholding and describing an encounter with a sculpture. After recognizing the potency in what he sees (and in what he doesn't see), the poet abruptly concludes his poem with the realization: "you must change your life." Biblical scholars have seen a similarity shared between this idea and the word "metanoia" -- often translated as "repent" but can take on the connotation of "expand your mind" or "change your life." This certainly must have been what Cleopas realized in the St. Luke's anecdote of the two disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Mere moments after Jesus' resurrection, he meets these disciples and walks with them, away from Jerusalem, towards Emmaus. When they stop and rest for the night, the resurrected Christ breaks the bread, and these disciples recognize their rabbi. Cleopas says, "did not our hearts burn within us?" And then the two disciples turn around and return to Jerusalem to live a new, changed life. Images have the power to unveil the sacredness of a space; my hope is to let these images draw in the viewer—turn their head—and give them something simultaneously alien and familiar to behold. I want these images to force you into a choice of how to respond: you must change your life.