Arts Ministry

We believe all humans are created in the image of God and have an inherent ability to be creative. It is essential that art and creativity be included in our worship and fellowship. By using and celebrating our creative gifts, we speak truth across boundaries and gain empathy for each other.

Recognizing that creativity stems from our Creator, Bethany Arts mission is to cultivate the arts in order to be a blessing to our community and to one another. Bethany Arts seeks to create ways for the community of Bethany to:

understand our faith, our stories, and our abilities through new and surprising ways;
support those who are called to artistic endeavors, both in our church community and beyond;
provide a safe and inviting space for all to enter church and find light, wisdom, exploration, truth telling, and hope.

Partnering with Local Artists of Color
We believe that art has power to create change, to expand our way of seeing, to motivate actions, and question accepted beliefs. Bethany Arts seeks to understand the privileges we have inherited as a predominantly white church, as well as the systems of institutional racism that surround us and are within us. Starting in July 2020, Bethany Arts began a partnership with Bethany Outreach to seek out local Artists of Color and commission them to create artwork for temporary outdoor display on the church grounds and to the Queen Anne community. This series is a step toward expanding our way of seeing and creating change. We believe that reconciliation and human flourishing are at the very heart of God and that art has a role in bringing that to life.

Moses Sun - Window Installation

Kenneth Franklin - "United" Marquee

Nicomedes “Nico” Gomez - Mural

If you are a BIPOC or AAPI artist and would like to create an art series in with Bethany, contact Jenn Cavanaugh

Madeleine Jubilee Saito

We would love to hear from you!

Bethany Arts would love to get to know you, hear your questions, see your art, or collaborate on your ideas. Please reach out to learn more and to share your art and creativity.

We are also always looking for interested members to join the Bethany Arts team. Please contact our current Arts Elder, Jenn Cavanaugh, with your interest and questions.

Arts Ministry Team

Jenn Cavanaugh (Current Arts Elder)

Jeff Benesi (Arts Committee Member)

Roger Feldman (Arts Committee Member)

Lisa Snow Lady (Arts Committee Member)

Sarah Sawers (Arts Committee Member)

Jane Gunningham (Arts Committee Member)

"Kubota Gardens, Seattle" by Dave Baab

Public Art

Roger Feldman - "The New Normal: Everyday Extremes and Disaster Disparities"

May Kytonen: Mother Tongue: Deluge Stories, 2024

"Sunflowers" by Jeff and Kay Benesi, 2022

Martin Medina

Maria Fee: So That I May Dwell Among Them

"Fruits and Failures: Considering the Reformation" by Serrah Russell

Lisa Snow Lady: Sanctuary

Ramp Gallery Exhibitions

Dave Baab
- Scetchbook drawings
- Time Slows: Sketches of a Socially Distanced Seattle

Jeff Benesi
- There is Always Light: Faces of Hope and Struggle
- East Meets West

Dick Ramsey: Elliott Bay Panorama, 2023

Rich Erickson: Open the Heavens and Come Down, 2023

Lisa Snow Lady: Sanctuary, 2024

Serrah Russell: a way through, 2024

Scott Erickson: Honest Advent, 2024

Madeleine Jubilee Saito: The whole world is humming with the love of God. 2025

Lisa Snow Lady: Native Plants

Roger Feldman: Hope Series

Julia Bennett

Kay Benesi: Colorwheel Studiot

Jorge Vilchiz: El Viejo Mexico

Zack Bent

April Huizenga

Jason Katsanis

Serrah Russell

Maria Russo

Shannon Sigler & Kristine Zellman

Matt Whitney