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A transformative journey that combines traditional Catholic spirituality with holistic artistic formation and is offered to everyone. Become the creative you were meant to be. Designed by David Clayton, Artist-in-Residence at the Scala Foundation and Provost, Pontifex University

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The Vision for You is a process by which we discovered our true calling in life—what we call our ‘personal vocation’; and through which we discovered the Great Fact—that we have a choice in life: WE CAN CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY OR TO BE MISERABLE.

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 3

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 3

Trying to Understand, and Counter, the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 3. How Marxist theory has entered the mainstream, and how radical, Christian ‘counter-revolutionary’ beauty is the response that will save the world.

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 2

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 2

Trying to Understand the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 2, The Appeal of Marxism as a Quasi Religion with It’s Own Salvation History, and the Counter-Revolutionary power of Christian sacred art

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 1

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The Philosophy of Contemporary Mainstream Fine Art Education and Art Criticism: Part 1

Trying to Understand, and to Counter, the Philosophy of Mainstream Art Schools and Contemporary Art Criticism. Part 1, Postmodernism, an art movement that doesn’t really exist?

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Does the Church Need Artists Who Are Humble Scribes? Or Original Geniuses?

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Does the Church Need Artists Who Are Humble Scribes? Or Original Geniuses?

A hermeneutic that dictates that artists do as little original work as possible (rather than as much as they can), is one that respects the past and, paradoxically, allows for the development of steadily better work in the future.

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The Mathematics of Beauty - Teaching Principles for Today, and Work Submitted by a Student

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The Mathematics of Beauty - Teaching Principles for Today, and Work Submitted by a Student

Intution has a part to play in the creation of beauty, but as with a musical composer needs the theory before he can create a new and beautiful piece of music, so does the artist. Even Mozart and Beethoven, prodigies that they were, had music lessons and were taught some theory by their fathers. 

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