Art & Wellness Festival

Join us for three inspiring days celebrating art, nature, architecture, and community through the lens of well-being!

Our theme for 2025, Well Being Here, invites us to reflect not only on the idea of well-being, but on what it means to be truly well—here, in this place, in this moment.

The festival features a dynamic mix of free and ticketed talks, workshops, in-gallery and on-trail experiences, and family-friendly engagements led by community partners and leaders in art and wellness. Together, we’ll explore the powerful connections between creativity and well-being.

Tickets and times vary by event.

Book your event tickets together and save! Bundle your keynote tickets together to save on the full festival experience, or explore individual events to plan your own wellness adventure.

Keynote Lectures

Plus

• SkySpace Experience – Experience SkySpace in a new way as brainwaves recorded in the space are transformed into an immersive soundscape.
• See How Your Brain Sees: EEG Interactive Brainwave Tour – Guided gallery tours that use EEG (electroencephalogram) headsets—completely safe, painless, and noninvasive—to measure your brain’s response to art in real time.

• PlantWave Listening Station – Join PlantWave as they make plants “sing” by turning their natural electrical signals into real-time music.
• The Future of Arts & Medicine Progressive Lecture – A trail-based experience led by experts in art and wellness as they walk throughout the Crystal Bridges Campus.
• Tours – Guided full campus architecture tours, mindfulness and art tours led by museum educators, family “trek and sketch” tours, plus the first public walkthrough of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine.

• Artmaking and Workshops – Hands-on artmaking and workshops invite you to explore creativity as a healing practice.
• Wellness Activities – Tai Chi, guided breathwork sessions, forest bathing walks through the North Forest, a trail-side sauna and cold plunge, and more!