Transforming Culture through Beauty, Creativity, and Joy

Our Vision

Culture is the DNA that informs every aspect of life through which we find meaning and direction. An ugly culture breeds discontent, uncertainty, and vice. To ensure the youngest generations don’t keep getting drawn into ideological movements, we need to rebuild a beautiful culture.

Winning political arguments and passing legislation cannot replace misery with deep, abiding joy. Political advocacy — though vital — won’t provide the substance needed to live with courage, creativity, integrity, and hope.

Since its founding in 2016, Scala has brought together students, artists, teachers, and scholars at the intersection of arts, liturgy, and higher education. We do deep work with students and families in our local community. We also host summer programs, organize public events, produce videos, conferences, books, and interviews, and conduct speaking tours.

By reestablishing the architecture of traditional spiritual formation, we can transform hearts and offer hope, joy, and creativity to the world — a creativity that can inform every human activity, from the fine arts to the natural sciences. By pioneering the Way of Beauty process of formation, we have developed a model that transforms lives by cultivating habits for a lifelong practice of joy and creativity in all that we do.