SXSW EDU here we come!
The Well's Youth Cartography Fellows will present a workshop at the prestigious SXSW EDU.
Imagine an entire school – students, teachers, and administrators – taking time each morning to turn inward together, and listen to a brief mindfulness prompt and world-class music.
The Well's programs combine best practices in arts and wellness and are designed in partnership with those they serve.
We love collaborating with local, national and international community partners and peoples in a variety of arts programming and mindfulness practices.
We are a small yet mighty team, dedicated to making a big difference with what we have. Your support means the world to us.
Our commissions and collaborations cover a broad range of community impact & listening, artistic mediums, and cross-cultural understanding all to improve the mental and emotional well-being of all persons through the arts. Explore all our past collaborations using the links below.
Youth Made: Time Is A Circle
2026 - A summer job for four young artists becomes a multi-channel film based on the notion that Time is a Circle, inspired by Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and ideas about work, creativity and connection. For FotoFocus.
Youth Made: My River, My Roots, My Freedom
2025 - The 20th anniversary of True Body Project in collaboration with ArtWorks and America's River Roots Festival. Youth apprentices created 8 unique art outcomes inspired by the history, present and imagined future of the Ohio River.
Youth Made: Sona and Soma
2024 - A collaboration between The Well's True Body Project, ArtWorks, and FotoFocus for 12 teens to create lens-based work about the complexity of living in a body.
Youth Made: Greetings from Planet Love
2023 - A collaboration between The Well's True Body Project and ArtWorks for 12 teens to create a book of artwork, a public mural, and pocket park in Camp Washington about a forgotten planet: Planet Love.
Youth Supported: Camp cARTwheel
2020 - A collaboration with ArtWorks, Wave Pool, and several Cincinnati arts organizations to offer a virtual arts and culture summer camp and fall programming. Presented by ArtsWave.
Music Commission: Healing Harmonies
2026 - Five new pieces of music and educational activities created by five regional composers inspired by Healing themes.
Music Commission: Home: All-Ohio Commission
2021 - New music by Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors in an inaugural collaboration between the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, and The Cleveland Orchestra. Four movements for string quartet celebrating each city's unique identity and our shared idea of "Home."
Music Commission: Field Recordings
2021 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by four Ohio-based artists and students in schools. The artists created six short pieces, with accompanying videos, that feature Field Recordings (audio from sounds of real spaces and places) and music to evoke a sense of place and to re-contextualize sound as an aural symphony.
Music Commission: Wonder Commission
2024 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors, inspired by Alan Lightman and their conversation on time, cosmos, nature, and meaning. In collaboration with Antigone Music Collective, UpSpring, and Asa Featherstone IV.
Artist Made: Mindful Sound Healing
2021 - Wellspring Fellow Sarah Yeung's series of Mindful Sound Healing Moments for students, teachers, families, and anyone looking for a moment of peace in their day.
Artist Made: The Wellness Garden
2024 - Wellspring Fellow Julia O. Bianco led an urban rewilding and creative placemaking project in Camp Washington in collaboration with Campsite Art Park and Keep Cincinnati Beautiful.
Artist Made: Illuminate
2024 - A transformative, immersive, customized journey for three special participants during BLINK weekend in Cincinnati.
Music Commission: Sempre Sano Residency
2018 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by Brian Raphael Nabors and students, in collaboration with Music Resource Center and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Educator Network.
Music Commission: Sound Intersections
2023 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by Nate May, with storytellers Omope Carter Daboiku and Talon Silverhorn. Exploring and uplifting the history and the intersection of Appalachian, African American, and Native American musical traditions within the Ohio River Valley region
Music Commission: The Hope Commission
2023 - New music commission for Mindful Music Moments by Sonia Ivette Morales-Matos in collaboration with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Refugee Connect to celebrate the arrival of Little Amal–a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl–to the United States.
Music Commission: The Light in Me
2017 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by Peter Adams in collaboration with youth at UpSpring and BLINK Cincinnati.
Music Commission: Neighborhood Songlines
2022-23 - New music for Mindful Music Moments by Jenn Howd inspired by the favorite sounds of local households and businesses in Pleasant Ridge and Camp Washington. In collaboration with Community Happens Here.
Music Commission: Mindful Music From Scratch
2025 - A new musical creation inspired by nine Ohio & Kentucky schools, performed by local youth orchestra students, and animated into a score-follower video.
Senior Wellbeing: Creative Connections
2022 - A collaboration with Musicians for Health, Sonya Verma, and the Giving Voice Collaborative to bring Mindfulness, Music and Sound Healing to individuals with dementia and their caregivers.
Mindful Places: UC Health
Hospital partnerships to provide digital well-being content to patients and providers.
Place-based: AWL Calm Corner
2018 - A collaboration with Academy of World Languages, ArtWorks, MindPeace, Lightborne, and Cincinnati Art Museum to create a waiting room space for calm and creative exploration at the Schiff Wellness Center.
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
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Our programs have been nourishing the community since 2005. In 2019, we became the non-profit, A Mindful Moment.
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