Being created in the image of God infers three things, IMO:
1) That man images a Creator, making man creative in his essence. Therefore art and everything else that results from man's incredible creativeness can be attributed to the imago Dei. Therefore, if one simply wants to spend his time downplaying man's artistic endeavors, it's really a form of dismissiveness of the imago Dei innateness of man IMO.
2) That creative aspect of the imago Dei is reinforced by making Jesus Christ the son of an earthly carpenter, the exact earthly parallel to the Carpenter of the universe, making Jesus Christ the son of two carpenters, that is, two creative beings (although I realize Joseph was only viewed as his earthly father) who create and construct as an essential part of their nature.
3) There is also a strong parallel between man’s charge to fill and subdue the earth (the cultural mandate from Genesis) and God’s filling and subduing the earth when he created the universe at the beginning of time (1) making something from nothing and (2) making order out of chaos. So man's successful ability to look at his own culture and society and be able to bring order from chaos in that context is again another reflection of the creative aspect of man wrought via the imago Dei IMO.
Just as an editorial comment on fundamental Christianity: these extremists (and I include the CofC here) IMO many times tend to downplay and repress the creativity of man, equating it with worldliness and even evil. Yet man's creativeness is really the acting out of an image set forth in him by an "infinitely creative" Creator.