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.
A short film on what's at stake — and what becomes possible when a community decides to keep its artists home.
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.
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 — artists, neighbors, and the people who never stopped believing in these buildings — each one a thread in a structure strong enough to hold us all.
Beautiful, central buildings 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.
Keeping generations in place, instilling art in the neighborhood, and creating jobs, market, and traffic.
New traffic, outreach, and the chance for clergy and congregations to serve in meaningful new ways.
We're building this in the Pacific Northwest — starting in Snohomish County, Washington. Honesty is one of our materials, so here's the road so far, and the road ahead.
Every partnership creates value for all three — churches, artists, and communities — woven together into something stronger than any one alone.
We help open their space to the community — retaining and growing their congregation, and fulfilling the church's deepest calling to serve.
We help them pursue their craft in a community of their choosing — maybe their hometown, maybe the town that supports their art.
We encourage multi-generational ties, care for those in need, and preserve sacred and historic buildings for the benefit of all.
Our Vision: Each space is held in trust for its community — 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.
Belonging is the only requirement. Every person — artist, neighbor, traveler, elder — is welcome in these spaces.
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.
We serve communities without bureaucracy — feeding people, supporting families, deepening the ties that hold neighborhoods together.
Churches 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)
Most congregations hold primary services 1–2 days per week.
Scholarship residencies for aspiring artists just out of high school or earning their GED — six months of time, space, and community inside a partner church, with room to grow to a year or two. Artists get a reason to stay rooted in the communities that raised them.
Churches fill with life again.
A residency costs less than most people think: a room, meals, materials, and studio space a church already owns. Your gift covers those simple things — and they're the difference between a young artist building a creative life here and leaving for good.
The Lattice Project exists to keep them home.
As a 501(c)(3) public charity, all contributions are fully tax-deductible. Every dollar goes toward artist scholarships, subsidized housing, church partnerships, and staff to support the artists and our endeavors.
The Lattice Project is a Washington nonprofit corporation and a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (EIN 41-2557596). Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The registration required by the Charitable Solicitations Act is on file with the Washington Secretary of State. Financial and other information about The Lattice Project is available from the Secretary of State’s office at 360-725-0377 or at https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/.