Our curriculum is designed specifically for artists who wish to explore the truth of what it means to be created in the image of God — and to steward and mature in their craft as faithful worshipers and servants of God.
Students join a cohort of friends, study under master teachers, and live inside the daily rhythms of the worship and fellowship of the Church in order to grow in understanding, discernment, and expertise in their skills.
Master teachers who know your name and walk with you through every craft.
A body of believers whose worship and table you share.
Your art offered back to the Church, to the city, and to the Creator.
Each track combines weekly lecture, applied practical lessons, and shared theology and philosophy core courses. Students may also enroll in à la carte courses across disciplines.
Church music history, psalmody & hymnody, pedagogy, performance, and applied lessons in voice and instrument.
Explore MusicPastry, hospitality, and the theology of the table — taught as an art that reflects beauty, culture, and the biblical significance of gathering around the table, to eat, drink, and be merry to the glory of God.
Explore CulinaryThe visual track is built around classical foundations, painting, and theory of the image.
Explore Visual“Christians are to be conscious of the fact that we are made in His image and, being conscious of it, should generate the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator.”Edith Schaeffer
No work of art is more important than the Christian’s own life, and every Christian is called upon to be an artist in this sense.Francis Schaeffer · Art and the Bible
RSA faculty are not there merely to lecture. They are skilled artists and theologians who walk with students, helping them hone their craft for the glory of God.
RSA’s culinary program laid the foundation for basic culinary skills and gave me a love of good food and preparing it well. Not only did I gain this practical knowledge, but the program also helped me shape my understanding of the theology of food and showed me that God gives us good things like food to enjoy.
I think one of the things that makes RSA unique is that they teach their students the Kodály method of music education, which has the potential of creating a uniquely Christian culture of music literacy in America.
Spend a day with us — sit in on classes, share a meal, and meet the faculty and students. The best way to know if RSA is the right fit.
Student life at RSA is theology and art lived together — worshipping side by side, sharing meals, showing and critiquing one another’s work, and spurring each other on in the pursuit of skillful creative art offered for the glory of God.