At The Cathedral of All Saints, our mission is to help people fall in love with God. We communicate Christian faith in and through the arts. We also support and encourage artists. In August of 2018, we formed a new initiative to support our mission: Cathedral Arts.

In September, 2018, we hired a part-time missioner to develop programs in keeping with our mission which came to be called Cathedral Arts. Here are some of its projects:

• A round table discussion,"Britten's War Requiem and the New Coventry Cathedral," in conjunction with the Albany Symphony Orchestra’s and the boy choristers of the Cathedral Choir’s performance at Proctor’s Theater.

• A virtual tour of The Cathedral of All Saints—find it HERE.

• A visual discovery of The Cathedral of All Saints and rebranding by designer Andy Jerabek. See the story HERE.

• Welcoming Albany City Schools children for their annual concert and art show.

• Support for Cathedral in Bloom, Albany’s new annual premier flower show.

• Welcoming Dr. Jeremy Begbie from Duke University Initiative in Theology and the Arts for a performance-lecture on healing, music, and the gospel in April of 2019 with a display of The St. John’s Bible, the first illuminated manuscript commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in 500 years, courtesy of St. Peter’s Hospital, Albany, and Trinity Health Partners.

• Art classes at the Capital City Rescue Mission and Koinonia ministries in the city of Albany.

• The Cathedral Arts Blog — a space for making things out of a desire for God and for beauty. Read it HERE.

• “Open Studio” days, sacred silent time for art and contemplation.

  “Writing From Your Heart: Get Started on Your Writing Project, with author and columnist Diane Cameron, and a workshop with Eugene K. Garber and Evan Craig Reardon, “T.S. Eliot: From Absence to Fullness,” a monthly contemplative group discussion of the poet’s work, as well as other poetry workshops and a video conversation with Bruce Beasley about his book, “Prayershreds.”

• An annual “Blessing of the Animals” service with charcoal animal portraits in support of school children in Haiti.

• Welcoming Dr. Michael Ward and his talk “The Bible and the Imagination of C.S. Lewis” in 2019 and Malcolm Guite in 2023 for the Annual Bible Symposium.

• A series of original videos combining visual art and the telling of biblical stories such as The Story of Love. See it HERE.

• Sister Katherine Hanley, CSJ, PhD for a retreat in the poetry of George Herbert and the online Hidden Cathedral Poetry Festival.

• A Grief and Meaning Making group on Zoom.

• Gilded Age Art Tours.

What is next for cathedral arts? Email arts@cathedralofallsaints.org to get involved.