Arts & Culture

Illusion of Abundance

February 4, 2025

The film Illusion of Abundance is a grassroots project addressing social, racial, and climate justice issues relating to the rapid decline of Great Salt Lake. The goal is to touch hearts and minds –- as only the arts can –- to inspire, inform, and encourage engagement and action to save Great Salt Lake and its ecosystems.

BYU ARTS Partnership

Forest Bathing: Being Outside, Mindfully

December 1, 2020

Nora Ballantyne, a nature lover and BYU ARTS Partnership editor, invites each of us on a journey into the meaning of shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of forest bathing. Read ways to practice soaking in the atmosphere of nature through our senses and to breathe and take note of our environment.

Nora Ballantyne

Veterans Day Art: Celebrating the Individual and the Community

November 10, 2020

Melissa Deletant, a teacher in the Uintah School District, shares her Veteran's Day Project that simultaneously honors veterans, teaches drawing and painting skills, and shows how participating in the arts creates empathy.

Heather Sundahl

Bridging the Gap: Mindful Arts Inspiration from Across the Globe

October 28, 2020

Nora Ballantyne encourages creating a few minutes of space in your day to consider how viewing artwork can help bridge the gap between time, distance, and privilege. This blog features global artists and the materials they use in mindful ways to reflect their environment, culture, and life experience.

Nora Ballantyne

Truth Telling

October 12, 2020

How can you honor the land on which you reside? How can you be a good steward of the beautiful state in which you live? What can you give back to the land that has so freely offered its blessings to you? Heather Sundahl encourages us to be part of a conversation that does not deny the lived experience of millions of Native people.