As daily life is increasingly shaped by near constant digital stimulation, contributing to rising rates of anxiety, depression, and social isolation, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents Vital Connections: Art & the Brain, one of the first large-scale museum exhibitions to explore the relationship between creativity and human health.  

Discover how experiencing and making art enhances well-being and brain function through a wide array of artists and media and the latest findings in neuroscience. Developed in collaboration with clinicians and neuroscientists at Honolulu’s Brain Health Applied Research Institute (B+HARI), Vital Connections: Art & the Brain unites the fields of art and neuroscience to offer an immersive, restorative space where you will learn what art is doing to your brain and body as you experience it.