Memphis, TN

The Continuum is a local community of artists in Memphis seeking growth through camaraderie with like-minded individuals who share a passion for the creative expression of the Imago Dei, the ability to find pleasure in the transcendent, and a desire to influence culture with culture through acts of creative excellence. 

All are welcome to engage with The Continuum - artists, non-artists, people committed to a particular faith, and those exploring spiritual themes.

Core Values:

1) Generative – We believe art is not just creative, but imaginative—always finding new ways to become relevant not through constant re-invention or novelty but by an ever freshening excellence that excites, renews and anticipates eternity by provoking individuals toward the kind of excess that creates over and again.

2) Prophetic – We assert that art is revelatory not simplistic, sentimental, innocuous or harmless; rather it works by means of hopeful subversion to challenge the status quo.

3) Patronistic – We seek to support and find supporters for the arts in order to ensure that art takes root and permeates lives transformatively.

4) Cultivating – We assert that excellence is worshipful and despise compromise and mediocrity. We do so by promoting a place of perpetual sharpening and growth through ongoing discussion, encouragement, constructive critique and personal, spiritual nurture in a manner that values the undivided person.

5) Pedagogical – We believe education is crucial to both creating and consuming art and that aesthetic knowledge co-collaborates with its sisters, Truth and Goodness; we affirm the need for a sophisticated and discerning aesthetic which uncovers lies and discloses reality.

6) Community centered – Isolated individuals are prone to despair, despondency and ineffectualness; in so much we wish to connect artists that they might find the hopefulness necessary to continue to create with praise to God.