05/11/2026
YOUR BRAIN ON ART
Join us May 29th as we welcome Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen, the New York Times bestselling authors of Your Brain on Art, to the Center Theater for an evening exploring how art shapes our minds, our health, and our lives.
Doors at 6PM | Talk at 7PM | Book signing to follow. Free tickets available in our bio!
Ivy Ross is currently the Chief Design Officer for Consumer Devices at Google. Since 2017, she and her team have launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning over 240 global design awards, including Fast Company’s declaring Google the most important design company in 2018. A renowned artist, Ivy’s innovative metal work in jewelry is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums. A winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Ivy has also received the Women in Design Award and Diamond International Award for her creative designs. Ivy’s passion is human potential and relationships. Ivy believes in the combination of art and science to make magic happen and bring great ideas and brands to life.
Susan Magsamen is the founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, a groundbreaking neuroaesthetics initiative at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her work focuses on how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the brain, body, and behavior, and how this knowledge can be translated to inform health, wellbeing, and learning programs in medicine, public health, and education. Susan also serves as co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint project, a joint initiative with the Aspen Institute that seeks to establish the field of Neuroarts, where arts and aesthetics are fully integrated into medicine and public health.
Thank you to our sponsors CLB Architects, Pearl Street Market, St. John's Health Foundation, Wilson Book Gallery, Maya Frodeman Gallery and First Interstate Bank.
