Formation for Artists
The Resilient Artist Project is a space designed to support your inner spiritual life so that you have the capacity to keep making honest work.
What sustains the person who sustains the work?
Artists spend years learning how to make things, yet spaces rarely tend to the inner life from which creative work emerges. The life that carries grief and wonder. The life that wrestles with meaning, relationships, faith, anxiety, longing, joy, exhaustion, and hope. The life that quietly shapes every creative decision long before it reaches the page, the stage, the screen, or the gallery.
Every artist carries these two realities at once — the life of their work and their everyday lived experiences. Most creative spaces tend to the first and leave the second to fend for itself.
The Resilient Artist Project exists for the second.
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The Resilient Artist Project is hosted by the Brehm Center.
Founded in 2001 and named after Fuller Seminary Board of Trustee members William and Delores Brehm, the Brehm Center’s mission is to integrate worship, theology, and the arts for the renewal of church and culture.
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Over twelve months, a cohort of artists gathers online and in person to explore what it means to sustain an art practice from a place of genuine wholeness rather than depletion.
Each cohort is guided by both a spiritual director and a licensed therapist. These two disciplines rarely sit in the same room, but they are brought together here because creative life, spiritual formation, and mental well-being can never truly be separated.
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From visual artists to performers, Resilient Artists create in a broad range of mediums. Past cohorts also include poets, comedians, pastors, liturgists, installation artists, and spoken word artists.
Resilient Artist cohorts consists of diverse creative mediums, including visual artists, musicians, comedians, performers, preachers, poets, writers, spoken word artists, and more.
Cohorts
2022 - 2023
2025 - 2026
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2022-2023"As an artist and a Christian, I was so excited to find out about Brehm’s Resilient Artist Project. Now being part of it, I can say that it has truly been a saving grace for me…"
— Leslie Iwai, Visual Artist