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Compose and create art that expresses your spiritual journey. Explore Bahá’í administration, personal transformation, and community building.
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Department:
Independent Sections
Compose and create art that expresses your spiritual journey. Explore Bahá’í administration, personal transformation, and community building.
Browse Courses from this Department
About the Department

The independent sections offer courses about creative writing, Baha’i archives, and exploration of Baha’i texts through the arts. 

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Chitra Golestani
Associate Director
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Chitra Golestani
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Sandra Lynn Hutchison, PhD
Author, Editor
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Anne Perry, PhD
Professor, The Art Institute of Dallas
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Margaret (Peggy) Caton, PhD, PsyD
Ethnomusicologist
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Behnoush McKay, MFA
Chair, Graphic Design, Woodbury University
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Nov 24, 2025
The Environmental Impacts of AI

This article aims to shed light on a highly consequential aspect of AI that receives relatively little attention: its environmental impact.

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Nov 24, 2025
"Technology plays a role in where we direct our gaze"

At the same time that it aids, technology also biases, though perhaps only subtly, what is investigated.

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