Why does the Church so rarely value and nurture the artists and prophets found in its midst?

Why does the Church so rarely value and nurture the artists and prophets found in its midst? 

That is a question which underlies the exhibition, at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, of Corita Kent’s vibrant, passionate, wry, colourful, compassionate, and contextually relevant art. 

Her art generated a string of correspondence from the Archbishop of Los Angeles that placed ever more stringent constraints on her art and teaching. Copies of that correspondence are displayed at the end of this most marvellous of exhibitions, leading me to raise this question in my exhibition review for Church Times:

'A wonderful piece of contextualised mission was brought to a premature end by the Archbishop’s inability to understand, combined with his inability to resist the local voices of complaint. Sister Corita was a true pioneer in, and heroine of, the 20th-century Church. This exhibition cannot be commended too highly.'

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Aaron Rose - Become A Microscope (Extract).