Our Programs & Events
Upcoming/Ongoing
Seattle In Person Gathering
Wednesday Afternoon & Evening, July 23, 2025
If you’re in the Seattle area or Pacific Northwest, we invite you to join us for a creative gathering on Wednesday, July 23rd ( no matter if you’re an NCVA member, friend, or interested creative). In the midst of the Glen Workshop from Image Journal, NCVA is co-hosting a late afternoon social hour along with Seattle-based arts organization Golden Repair.
Gather to create and connect at Golden Repair’s art studio where we’ll have open time to enjoy art. making, conversation, complimentary beverages, and the option to order in from local South Seattle neighborhood restaurants. This will be a meaningful and low-key in-person gathering as we weave creative connections. For the specific adddress and to stay up-to-date, email info@ncva.community to be put on the interest list.
Creator Circles
Creator Circles registration will open mid-August for the fall season.
Creator Circles is the core program of NCVA connecting people together and developing meaningful and powerful friendships. Creator Circles gather up to eight NCVA members monthly via Zoom to support, inspire, and encourage each other.
Creator Circles give participants the opportunity to share life as the group listens attentively. With a focus on connecting with God and others, the supportive atmosphere helps valuable relationships form that are truly impactful.
For more information or to be placed on a waiting list, contact info@ncva.community.
History of Creator Circles
2018 – Kent Larson and Barbara Lidfors start gathering artists on Zoom once a month
2020 – Kent and Barbara, along with with Steven Homestead and Michelle Paine, expand and launch the program for Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA)
2023 – After 3 years within CIVA, program participants decide to keep making connections through these gatherings
2023 – Creator Circles launch
Fall Art Share
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | Via Zoom
Member Art Shares provide an opportunity for our members to show and share their art (1 minute per member) as well as to invite friends and community members to learn more about who we are on individual and creative levels. We’ll share in a brief time of prayer, as well as have the opportunity to connect for fellowship after the Art Share to appreciate what we’ve seen. We can’t wait to see what you’ve been meaking! This will be a time of art sharing, fellowship, prayer, and connection. Sign up for our email list to receive the registration link!
Past Programs
Creative Responses to Crisis:
NCVA in Conversation
Tuesday, February 18, February 25, March 4, 2025 | Via Zoom
8:00pm EST | 7:00pm CST | 6:00 MST | 5:00 PST
Gather with us for an online conversation. In times of crisis, natural disasters or otherwise, how can artists and creative people respond and contribute?
J. Scott McElroy
Author of How to CARE and The Creative Church Handbook
Stephen Roach
Host of the podcast Makers & Mystics and The Breath & The Clay conference
Dr. Melissa Hofstetter, Ph.D., M.Div.
Founder of Shepherd Heart Ministry Consulting
Register at the link below to attend any of the sessions.
Neurotheology, Creativity & Community
On May 9, 2024 NCVA and friends from the broader creative community gathered for an online discussion on the connections between our brains, creativity, and community. We spoke with guest Amy Howey Pierson, author of Makers in a Thinker’s World: What Brain Science Teaches about the Spiritually Transforming Power of Creativity, as well as heard from founders of the Creator Circles model, including Kent Larson and NCVA co-founder Steven Homestead, plus co-founder Michelle Arnold Paine and board member Adrienne Reedy. Watch a recording of the event below:
Advent Gathering + Share
Thursday, December 5, 2024 | Via Zoom
8:00pm EST | 7:00pm CST | 6:00 MST | 5:00 PST
Gather with us in the early days of Advent, for a time of celebration and meditation in creative community. Our Zoom-based gathering will include a non-juried Member Art Share and Fellowship in breakout rooms as we make room in our hearts and lives for the treasure that is Christ. (If you’re not a member and would like to share your art, become a member here.)
We will center ourselves on Jesus, God’s gift to us, and the ways in which we can offer ourselves and our creativity in response, centered in Matthew’s gospel:
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
—Matthew 2:11 (NIV)
Summertime Chat
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | Via Zoom
8:00pm EDT | 7:00pm CDT | 6:00 MDT | 5:00 PDT
We kick backed and gathered with NCVA members and friends as we shared a time of fellowship and what’s been inspiring us from the summer!
In-Person Gathering: Seattle Washington
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
In the heart of the Emerald City, we connected with creatives and friends for our #PNW In-Person Gathering.