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About us.

A creative-arts certificate program of Church of the Redeemer — music, culinary, and visual.

Students and faculty in fellowship at Church of the Redeemer
Our Story

A school the Church raised up.

RSA began out of Pastor Steve Wilkins’ conviction that the Church must actively cultivate the next generation of musicians and artists who can continue and deepen the strong tradition of beauty, worship, and craftsmanship we have been given.

Rather than simply hoping that such formation would happen elsewhere, we believe the Church herself should raise up organists, choir directors, composers, cooks, visual artists, and teachers who understand their gifts as service offered to God and to his people.

That conviction became a school. Today RSA trains post–high-school students across three disciplines, inside the daily rhythms of Church of the Redeemer.

Our Mission

Forming skillful Christian artists.

Redeemer School of the Arts trains worshipers in the practical, theological, and historical understanding of the arts — music, culinary, and visual — within the life and fellowship of the Church.

The arts have historically been the visible and audible mature expression of the Church’s joy, hospitality, and worship. Our aim is to do our small part to restore that pattern, where faith, craft, and community shape one another.

Faith

Artistic work framed as service offered to God and to his people, formed inside a thriving local body.

Craft

Real skill, taught by master teachers — pedagogy, theory, technique, and the long traditions of the disciplines.

Community

A fellowship of students who worship, eat, study, and create together in West Monroe.

“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 SchaefferArt and the Bible
Oversight & Governance

Under the care of the local church.

Governing Body

Session of Church of the Redeemer

The local-church session under which RSA operates.

Board of Governors

RSA Board of Governors

Steve Wilkins, President
Will Merritt · Glen Warner · Jarrod Richey · Scott Aniol

Academic Leadership

Academic Dean

Jarrod Richey

Administration

Registrar & Administrator

Shannon Trisler

Come Study With Us

Hear why it matters.

Six short talks from our faculty on beauty, skill, and the calling of the Christian artist — the heart of why RSA exists.