About the Fellowship of the Annunciation

Members of Scala Foundation's Fellowship of the Annunciation commit to recurring donations (monthly, quarterly or yearly) to support Scala's mission to restore meaning and purpose to culture through beauty, liturgy and liberal arts education.

Renewing Traditions of Sacred Art

Scala was founded because Western culture is increasingly anti-Christian or post-Christian. Under the influence of scientific reductionism and post-modernism, both popular culture (e.g., social media) and high culture (e.g., art schools) undermine Western values and the Christian faith. In the liturgical arts (icons, frescoes, mosaics, statues, and embroidery), artists currently have few places to train. Clergy, parishioners, and patrons of the arts often do not know who or what to commission.

Scala is hard at work to re-establish great traditions of sacred art. For example, thanks to the recommendation of Scala Artist-in-Residence David Clayton, a Catholic artist named Martin Earle—a master artist and a key member of the Chichester Workshop—received a commission to make a 12-foot cross for the Catholic Cathedral in Aberdeen. A young American artist from Baltimore named Ander Scharbach is now apprenticing with both Aidan and Martin. Scala is helping young artists like Ander get the artistic training, the theological and philosophical formation, and the friendships with patrons they need bring this artistic renewal back to America.

By supporting Scala today with a recurring donation you will be a part of our global network of friends renewing great traditions in art and supporting a renaissance in education and culture. Your support will enable us to reach tens of thousands of people through 1) beautiful events like Sarum Vespers with sacred art commissioned specifically for the event; 2) partnering with the Catholic Sacred Music Project to train young composers and choral conductors; 3) publishing new books in 2024; 4) creating more online resources (YouTube videos, Instagram posts, articles); 4) facilitating new friendships between artists and potential patrons via personal introductions and profiles on our website; 5) convening meetings of clergy, artists, and scholars to expand in theological and philosophical formation to connect great art to cultural and religious renewal; 6) teaching parents and educators how artistic training furthers creativity and virtue.

Join Us Today!

The Scala Foundation welcomes recurring donations of any amount to the Fellowship of the Annunciation by clicking the donate button on the top of this page.

If you wish to make a one-time donation to Scala, visit our website. For information on other ways to give, please email us at info@scalafoundation.org .

Will you support Scala today to help us bring light into the darkness and save our culture? We need your help to create new art, new music, new books and workshops, and new communities of friendship between students and artists that make life meaningful, joyful, and beautiful.

Learn More about Scala Foundation

Founded in 2016, the Scala Foundation’s mission is to restore meaning and purpose to American culture by restoring beauty to liturgy, education and our common life. Scala is led by Margarita Mooney Clayton, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, who is the author of numerous books and popular articles, and an inspiring public speaker on topics such as education, culture, virtues and faith.

Her husband, David Clayton, is an Artist-in-Residence for Scala and the Provost of Pontifex University, where he founded the Master of Sacred Arts Program. David studied iconography with Aidan Hart, and is an internationally renowned iconographer and writer for various online publications about topics like the mathematics of beauty, liturgical art, and cultural renewal.

Online Resources about Scala

In addition to deep work in Princeton and Oxford to bring together artists, students, teachers, and scholars, Scala also publishes books, blogs, articles, interviews, and hosts public events like conferences, webinars and lectures open to the public.

Scala Foundation's website

Margarita Mooney Clayton's biography and publications

David Clayton's Way of Beauty blog and books

Interviews and Lectures with Margarita Mooney Clayton

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