Questions churches ask us.

It is a way for a church to invite, display, and celebrate the visual and literary work of its congregation. Members submit art, poetry, or photography around a theme or scripture, the church displays it, and the wider body gathers around it. It builds community, puts people's gifts to work, and can reach people who would never come for a sermon first.

No. God equips us for what He calls us to, and running an arts ministry is mostly administrative and pastoral work, not art-making. You invite people, you welcome their gifts, and you tend the relationships. Hymn & Hue handles a lot of the details. Your artists bring the art, and you bring the shepherding.

Far less than running it by hand. Artists submit themselves from a phone or computer, so no one is collecting files by email. The main ongoing task is curation, choosing and approving submissions, which a leader can do in a few minutes. The gallery, the cards, and the archive are automatic.

Your church name and logo, a statement of faith, one series or theme to gather around, and a leader to approve submissions. That is enough to open for submissions and publish your first gallery.

You share one link. Artists submit a photo, a title, the inspiration scripture or theme behind their piece, a short caption for the printed card, and an optional longer description and audio reflection. Every submission waits in a review queue, and nothing appears publicly until a leader curates and approves it.

Visual and literary work of many kinds: paintings, drawings, photography, prints, fiber art, sculpture (as a photo), calligraphy, poetry, and short prose. For each piece, an artist adds a title, the medium, the inspiration scripture or theme behind it, a short caption sized to fit the printed card, and an optional longer description for the website. A spoken audio reflection is optional too. You decide which fields to require.

They can, but it is off by default, and that is on purpose. We have no interest in turning a sanctuary into a store. Every piece defaults to "not for sale," and most artists and churches choose to display art for its own sake. Whether selling is even an option is a choice you make at the admin level. Some churches do open it up, often as a fundraiser for a ministry or a missionary. When a piece is for sale, the artist transacts directly with the buyer, off the platform for now. We do not take a cut and we do not process the payment.

With care, and with the final say always in your hands. Because approval is required before anything goes public, a difficult piece never surprises you on the wall. You can hold it, decline it, or talk with the artist first. We have written a gracious decision framework for this on the blog.

Yes, as many as you allow, and across more than one campus if your church has several. There is no per-artist limit and no per-artist fee.

Every artist acknowledges your statement of faith when they submit, and the version and date are recorded with the piece. You set the statement, you can update it, and you approve every piece before it is shown. The tool keeps your convictions in the loop without making you police it by hand.

The artist owns their artwork. When they submit, they give your church and Hymn & Hue permission to display it. We host your ministry, but the decision of what to publish is always yours: you choose what is shown, for how long, and what comes down.

When an artist submits, they choose the name shown with their work, which can be their full name, a first name and an initial, or a pen name. They agree to have that name and an image of their art, for which they keep the copyright, shown on the public gallery. Their contact information is visible only to system administrators, and it is used only if there is a question or concern about a piece, or to coordinate physical display details off the platform. Contact details are never shown publicly. All of this is spelled out in our Privacy Policy.

Yes. Our higher plans support as many campuses as you have, each with its own gallery and curation, and let you scope a team member's access to a single campus. A visitor browsing the gallery can filter by campus.

A few ways, depending on your plan and your web team:

• We host your gallery and you embed it in your site with a simple iframe. We give your technical contact the instructions.
• We provide your technical contact the HTML to place on your site directly. Updates are loaded manually whenever you want them.
• We host it at your own address, such as firststreetbaptist.hymnandhue.com. (Premium plan.)
• We push updates to your site automatically through an API. We provide your technical team the setup instructions. (Premium plan.)

Not sure which fits? Tell us about your setup and we will help you choose.

Yes. An admin can set the gallery's style, including a serif or sans-serif font and your basic brand colors, so it feels like part of your church's own site rather than a generic page.

One simple plan per church, with no setup fees and no per-artist charges. Plans are billed annually. See the pricing page for current tiers.

Yes. Your archive can be exported so your church keeps its record of every series, and our data-retention terms spell out exactly how long we keep and host your content if you pause or cancel. Artists can hide or remove their own submissions, and admins can do the same.