Saint Joseph's Arts Society

Perhaps the biggest labor of love in my career so far is Saint Joseph’s Arts Society. About three years ago, I bought a church and embarked on a full restoration of the 1913 National Historic Landmark, Saint Joseph’s Church. For years I had passed by this grand but dilapidated old Romanesque church on 10th and Howard and when I was unexpectedly given the opportunity to help bring it back to its former glory, I felt I had no other choice but to accept. As the next steward of this incredible building, I felt it was my responsibility to infuse it with optimism, in part as an antidote to our de-sensitized and over-digitized world. We formed a subscription-based arts society and a non-profit arts foundation, and filled the building with beauty, art, culture and creativity, all designed to inspire the community and the city by extension.