Scala Foundation

The Scala Foundation’s mission is to transform culture through beauty, creativity and joy. By creating paths to an encounter with true beauty – and connecting beauty to personal vocation and the common good – we are reversing the damage done to our culture by an ideology of misery, despair, and anger. 

The Way of Beauty process of formation does more than change opinions; it changes how people see themselves, empowering them to find joy, meaning, & fulfillment. We inspire people to contribute to the common good through creativity in study and work in the arts and sciences. Through this, people discover joy in the everyday labors of a family and a career.

Scala is led by Margarita Mooney Clayton, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, and her husband David Clayton, an iconographer author and professor at Pontifex University. We do deep work with students and families in our local community and publish book, lead conferences, and host events for families, schools and churches.