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We are immersed in a culture starved for truth.

Our Mission

Living Water College integrates the Arts with right-thinking and deep faith, so artists can express truth and transform the world.

Faith, Reason, Art

 

“Because neither right-thinking (reason) nor faith receive respect in the public square of the 21st century, today’s artists struggle, and few find it possible to balance their craft with a healthy intellect and faith.  Gifted individuals should have the opportunity to develop their artistic skills without compromising their faith or right-thinking. Living Water College is the product of a conscious effort to re-integrate the study of art with faith and reason in order to equip artists to fulfill their eminent responsibility of expressing truth and beauty in their Art.”                                                                                             

- Deacon Ken and Marlane Noster

 

Studying the Arts in a Christian Context

 

Living Water College of the Arts is a faithfully Catholic institution.

  • Study the Arts without compromising morals or faith.
  • Develop talents in a community of artists
  • Live, learn and grow in Christian community.

Current Campus

Classrooms, dormitories, chapel, library, recording and performance studios, offices, kitchen and cafeteria.

Endorsements

“I am an enthusiast for Living Water College, and pray that it will have a solid and bright future. I'd happily volunteer to teach … gratis!”

Thomas Howard, Teacher & Author

“Living Water College is a rare academy which seeks to recover truth and beauty…. I wholeheartedly support the mission and endeavours of this college.”

Mark Mallet, Canadian Singer/Songwriter

“The Church is commissioned in every age to engage the world and transform it. The work of Living Water Arts Foundation is an active response to the Church’s commission. I encourage artists to participate in this training and this work. I encourage the faithful to pray for the success of this work. I encourage all to support this work in their charitable giving and the gift of their time.”

✠Richard Smith, Archbishop of Edmonton
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“Living Water College's course of study is one of the most ambitious liberal arts/fine arts programs in North America. I don't know of another program that so completely attempts to integrate the study of the great books with the development of the artist's craft.”

Shawn Dougherty, Professor of Drama, Franciscan University of Steubenville 

“Beauty will save the world: the beauty of a well-formed intellect, the beauty of grace-filled visual and performing arts shared with a hungry world, the beauty of Faith in Jesus Christ fully developed and lived out. Praise God for Living Water College and for all who, by the grace and mercy of God, have brought it into being.”

Patrick Stewart, Artist

“The fact that the Living Water College of the Arts is being set up to provide for the spiritual, personal, intellectual and professional growth of students of the Arts, enabling them to give glory to God through their lives and works, is viewed by me as yet another source of hope for the world.”

Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archdiocese of Toronto 

"Living Water College is a tremendous sign that the new springtime of hope is underway. As the Council Fathers and every Pope since the council have reminded us, the new evangelization will depend in large part on the restoration and development of genuine Christian culture. In Living Water College the Church in Canada has been blessed with an opportunity to make this happen.

Michael D. O'Brien, Canadian Painter & Author

"Most people recognize the power that drama and the fine arts have to change the direction of a culture. But it is rare that anyone has the foresight to design a college for the very purpose of educating students in the wise and excellent use of that power. Living Water College of the Arts will therefore fulfill a great need, and it will do so in a way that is both intelligent and creative.”

Sean D. Collins, Tutor Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California