The 2024 Art Expo gallery is live! We recommend that you put this post down for a bit and check out the gallery first because the featured graphs are something special.
In this fifth year of the Art Expo, we took a new direction and explicitly centered learning. Every year, the graphs blow us away, which is a reflection not just of the new capabilities we’ve added but also of the Desmos community’s growing creativity, curiosity, and collaboration.
At Desmos Studio, we love learning and growth. Every year, we try to add new features to make Desmos more powerful, useful, and fun (check out our What’s New page!). And every year, we’re blown away by the new techniques and discoveries shared so generously across the Desmos community.
So, this year’s Math Art Expo is focused on learning and the journey it takes us on. That’s why we’re calling this an “Expo” – a celebration of creativity, growth, and community. We want to see how you use the capabilities we’ve added to express yourself. But even more than that, we want to see how you’ve grown, what you’ve learned about math and about creating art with Desmos in the last year.
For example, we were blown away by this anonymous participant’s two self-portraits, first in 2020 and then in 2021:
Or take a look at these two graphs from Diana A., both amazing, and together showing so much growth from 2022 to 2023:
If you’ve submitted in the past, we can’t wait to see what you’ve learned in the last year.
If this is your first time participating, we hope this is the first of many, and are just as excited to see what you create!
Update February 1, 2024: The gallery is live! Thank you to everyone who participated. We were blown away by the artistry, care, and ingenuity on display this year. Choosing just 100 graphs was nearly impossible, but we expect you’ll be as inspired by them as we are. As you explore the gallery, be on the lookout for the small details and bits of magic you’ll find scattered throughout artist statements and notes. You can find the graphs at www.desmos.com/art.
Our Global Math Art Contest is one of the highlights of our year. It reinforces the connection between math and art and creativity. It pushes our technical limits. And it inspires wild new features and products (see the 3D Calculator) in our quest to make tools worthy of the incredible people who use us around the world.
This year’s contest begins now! You’re welcome to get started, even though submissions won’t open for another two weeks. You’ll be able to submit anytime between December 1st and January 15th.
As you’re thinking about what you’ll create, we wanted to share a few themes to consider this year.
