The Bridges Organization is an organization that was founded in

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...

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, in 1998 with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary work in

mathematics and art Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art mathematical beauty, motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as Music and mathematics, music, dance, painting, Mathema ...

. The Bridges Conference is an annual conference on connections between

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

and mathematics. The conference features papers, educational workshops, an

art exhibition An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhi ...

, a mathematical poetry reading, and a short movie festival.

List of Bridges conferences

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* 1998 establishments in Kansas Arts organizations established in 1998 Arts organizations based in Kansas Mathematics organizations Mathematics and art {{US-arts-org-stub