We transform underutilized sacred spaces into sanctuaries of creativity — empowering artists, sustaining churches, and enriching neighborhoods through accessible, community-rooted art and culture.
Come create. Come eat. Come rest. Come heal.
The most passionate ones. The ones that need to create to feel whole. Our hometown kids — living paycheck to paycheck, sometimes two, with a side hustle — who eventually have to make a decision: move away for more affordable options, or give up and say they'll return to it when things get better.
That was in 2019.
If we lose our artists, we lose our culture.
If we lose our culture, we lose our sense of community.
The Lattice Project exists to keep artists home.
We believe sacred space is not limited to worship — it is woven from presence, purpose, and shared humanity. Across this country, churches stand quiet. Once the heartbeat of communities, many now sit unused, underfunded, or on the brink of being lost. At the same time, artists search for space. Neighbors search for nourishment. Travelers search for somewhere to be fed and washed.
The Lattice Project weaves these threads together. We repurpose underutilized churches into community-rooted sanctuaries — places where artists live and work, where music and spirit echo in the walls, where food is served, where healing is offered, where belonging is the only requirement.
It's a collective act of reclamation and renewal. We are building a lattice — of artists, spiritual workers, volunteers, youth, elders, wanderers, healers, and neighbors — each one an essential thread in a structure strong enough to hold us all.
Churches are architecturally and acoustically beautiful, centrally located, and already equipped with kitchens, stages, and sound — everything artists need.
Scholarships per location for artists graduating high school or earning their GED — scaled to each church's size and participation.
Keeping generations in the community, instilling art and artists in place, and creating jobs, market, traffic, and tourism.
Additional traffic, community outreach, and the opportunity for clergy and congregations to serve in meaningful new ways.
The Lattice Project is built on mutual benefit. Every partnership creates value for all three — churches, artists, and communities — woven together into something stronger than any one alone.
To open their space to the community — retaining and growing their congregation, and fulfilling the church's deepest calling to serve those in need.
To pursue their creative endeavors in a community of their choosing — maybe their hometown, maybe the town that supports their art.
To encourage multi-generational ties, care for those in need, and preserve sacred spaces and historical buildings for the benefit of all.
Our Vision: Each space is held in trust for its community. It will be a sanctuary for creative expression, spiritual reflection, and radical hospitality. We honor the stories of this place and plant new ones in shared soil.
Faith communities collectively hold over 2.6 million acres across this country — much of it underutilized. We believe those acres can feed people, house artists, shelter travelers, and reconnect neighbors. Come create. Come eat. Come rest. Come heal. Come be part of something sacred.
Belonging is the only requirement. Every person — artist, neighbor, traveler, elder — is welcome in these spaces.
We believe creative work is essential human activity — not a luxury. We build the conditions for it to flourish.
These are sacred spaces. We honor that history and invite the quiet, the contemplative, and the transcendent alongside the creative.
We serve communities without bureaucracy — feeding people, supporting families, and deepening the ties that hold neighborhoods together.
Our initial program offers scholarship residencies per location — scaled to each church's size and capacity — to aspiring artists graduating from high school or earning their GED. A 6-month residency gives them the time, space, and community to take their first real creative steps.
This gets people into the church who might not otherwise have reason to enter — and gives artists a reason to stay in the communities and multi-generational families that raised them.
Coming SoonChurches across America sit largely empty most of the week — light-filled sanctuaries, centrally located, fully equipped. Sacred spaces waiting to be alive again.
Sources: Gallup (2024), Heritage Foundation (2023), Pew Research Center (2025)
Typical weekly building activity level
Source: Church facility research — most congregations hold primary services 1–2 days/week