Steven Homestead brings genre-spanning creativity to life as an artist, composer, writer, curator, speaker, arts-leader, and mystic. Across his many roles, Steven works to promote honor, champion voice, share wonder, and develop unity.
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Steven is known for his community engaged work, including his roles to help launch the inaugural Compose LA Festival, as curator for the Boca de Oro Festival, and across numerous projects and spaces that have supported areas of mental health, identity, empathy, and community. His two most recent projects are driven by his belief that people hold the Imago Dei, leading him to form the Kaleidoscope Creative Nexus, a multi-church creative movement in Southern Orange County, CA in addition to co-founding NCVA (see below.)
He is the force behind multiple interactive installations, including work at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and the DTSA ArtWalk, as well as at conferences and retreats. He’s had solo shows at Fuller Theological Seminary, TEDxMission Viejo, and Life Pacific University. He’s also led numerous projects for Saddleback Visual Arts (SVA), where he has served as one of the ministry’s leaders for over the past decade.
In 2023, he co-founded The Network of Christians in Visual Arts (NCVA), a new arts nonprofit that is creating connections for people in the world of visual arts all over the nation and world.
As a renaissance creative, he has also been active in community building and poetry, starting his online poetry reading series Word Up! and serving as guest curator for the Boca De Oro Festival, Orange County and Santa Ana’s literary arts and culture experience, where he has presented workshops with Billy Mark, Tinasha LaRayé, José Lozano, Kerry Mcpherson, including hosting the event’s closing key-note speaker, Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
As the former President of the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles (ACF-LA), Steven worked to support the development and appreciation of new music throughout Southern California.
Steven’s music soars, plays, meditates, and reminisces. Recent performances include premieres under the direction of Christian Guebert, with Newgate Orchestra, and collaboration with soprano Linda Jackson at Oasis concert series.
In 2021, Steven also served as a guest music curator for the Advent Project, a key offering from the Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts. He has since been a contributing writer for both the Advent and Lent projects.
Steven earned his MM in Composition-Theory from CSUF, where he studied with Pamela Madsen. He received his BA in Music from UCLA as the Chancellor’s Marshall of Music, having studied with Paul Chihara, Roger Bourland, David Lefkowitz, and Ian Krouse. (For further information on his music, see the About page and explore audio tracks of some of his work under the Music drop-down.)
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