Visualizing Learning Student Art Competition
Pictures from the 2025 Visualizing Learning Art Exhibit
President Kevin J Worthen has encouraged BYU faculty and students to be involved in “inspiring learning.” To the faculty he said, “I hope we inspire our students to learn. And I hope that learning leads to inspiration. When both things happen, inspiring learning occurs, and we then know we are on the right track to achieve the core goals set forth in our mission statement.” [1]
Recognizing that student learning occurs in a variety of ways, BYU Religious Education has decided to recognize some of the outstanding artwork that students have created as part of their assigned projects in classes taught by Religious Education faculty. The result is the Visualizing Learning Student Artwork Competition and Exhibit.
Each year, students in courses taught by Religious Education faculty can submit their artwork projects to the Visualizing Learning competition. Each submission is carefully evaluated by a faculty committee, who then select the winning artwork based on artistic quality and demonstration of significant student learning—both types of “inspiring learning” mentioned by President Worthen. The Religious Education’s Administrative Council then approves each winning piece for display.
In recognition of the winning students’ accomplishments, the faculty committee awards $1000 for a grand prize, $700 for the first runner up, $300 to the second runner up, and $200 for all others whose artwork is selected and displayed.
A temporary showcase of the winning artwork will take place in the BYU Museum of Art on February 13th, 2026, followed by an awards luncheon in the Wilkinson Student Center. The winning artwork will then be exhibited in the first-floor lobby of the Joseph Smith Building on campus for one year. Submissions are due December 1st, 2025.
For more information, please contact visualizinglearning@byu.edu.
[1] Kevin J Worthen, "Inspiring Learning" (speech, University Conference, Provo, UT, August 22, 2016) BYU Speeches, https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/kevin-j-worthen_inspiring-learning/.
