Each fall, A Studio in the Woods hosts FORESTival: A Celebration of Art and Nature. FORESTival is the one day out of the year that the woods are open to the public at large. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of ASITW Founders’ purchase of the land A Studio in the Woods sits upon, and they are celebrating in style with music from the Grammy award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, Panorama Brass Band, Blake Amos, and harpist Nancy Burtchaell. Resident and guest artists including Monica Haller and Sebastian Muellauer, Geraldine Laurendeau and Jonathan “rat de bois farouche” Mayers, Margaret Pearce, Antenna’s Draw-a-thon, and more. Anthropocene River Campus and New Orleans Center for the Gulf South basecamp, with seminar reflections, soil coring with sedimentologist Ryan Clarke, fungi of native plants interactive demonstration with biologist Mareli Sanchez Julia, and a reading by visual artist and writer Kristina Kay Robinson.