Why does beauty matter? Beauty invites us to imagine something different than what we think we know about ourselves and the world. It can connect us to our deeper selves and to one another through the shared experience of creativity. Beauty offers us a sharp contrast to the ugliness of destruction and feels deeply important to our world today. How can we experience the beauty that exists around us in abundance, even in the midst of destruction? And how can we contribute our own creative efforts to our aching world?