NATURE, HEALTH + WELLNESS PROGRAMS
Laumeier Sculpture Park encourages visitors to engage in experiences of art and nature and uncover the health and wellness benefits provided by these experiences.
Whether it’s the calming effects of being in nature, movement for your body, or inspiration for healthy habits, we hope you will join us for these upcoming and ongoing programs.
ART & NATURE DAY
Winter Festivities at Laumeier Sculpture Park
Celebrate the arrival of winter at the Park! Create bird seed ornaments using fun shapes and molds while learning about the importance of feeding your backyard birds during the winter. Get your legs moving by strolling through the Park on a winter themed tour before warming up with some roasted chestnuts!
All ages / Saturday, December 20 /
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. / Free
Winter Walk at Laumeier Sculpture Park
Laumeier Sculpture Park is a wonderful place to visit all year round! Get your legs moving and warm up on this beautiful winter day while learning about the Park’s landscape during the colder months. Level 1.
All Ages / Saturday, December 20 / 11 a.m. / RSVP online / Free
Gather around the firepits around noon outside of the Kranzberg Education Lab and try some tasty chestnuts while chatting with friends and family!
WALKING TOURS and GUIDED HIKES
Experience artwork in the great outdoors and deepen your connection to nature and to our five senses. Join us for our walking tours—each tour focuses on a different theme and area of the Park. Walking Tours and Guided Hikes are sponsored by St. Louis County Parks.
Level 1 / This tour includes both flat surfaces and some paved trails. The group will stay in proximity to resting areas and accessibility ramps.
Level 2 / This tour includes both paved trails and unpaved trails. The group will travel farther from resting areas and parking areas.
Level 3 / This tour includes unpaved surfaces, some slopes and narrow trails. Participants can expect to be in proximity to wildlife and some foliage. Proper footwear is strongly recommended.
ONGOING PROGRAMS:
MINDFUL REMINDERS
Placed throughout the Park, you will find nine Mindful Reminders that encourage you to search, pause, reflect and practice mindfulness techniques that can contribute to a positive sense of well-being. Bring awareness to your presence on earth in each unique space with both your mind and your body.
What is Mindfulness? It is the ability to be fully present, aware of where you are and what you are doing. We are often preoccupied with thoughts and anxieties that are not actually connected to our immediate environment. Allow the natural environment and the artistic creations to impact and speak to you, and savor the experience. Practice gratitude and appreciation.
Mindful Reminders locations:
Paved Path near the center of the Park
Dan Graham, Triangular Bridge Over Water, 1990
Michael Heizer, Compression Line, 1968
Jene Highstein, Ada’s Will, 1990
Richard Hunt, Linked Forms, 1999
Alexander Liberman, The Way, 1972–80
Donald Lipski, Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!, 1994
Mark Mennin, Cores for Laumeier, 2003
Trail entrance by the lower parking lot
The Mindful Reminders project was created by Laura Peroutka Greenwood, Laumeier’s Art Therapy liaison in 2022.
Laumeier Sculpture Park Biodiversity Project
Participate in our ongoing Laumeier Sculpture Park Biodiversity Project, created by 2023 Resident Community Artist Emily Hemeyer, by recording natural observations at Laumeier through iNaturalist.