This presentation will include an interactive welcome to the conference and provide a theoretical and historical setting for the work we hope to accomplish together. Our aim will be to co-create an inclusive space where makers and museum professionals, researchers and students, funders and policy experts can connect with each other to learn and share ideas and innovations for exploring and advancing connections between the visual arts and flourishing in Philadelphia and beyond. We will discuss the Positive Humanities and the broader work of the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project, with the goal of developing an inclusive and capacious understanding of flourishing that respects individuals and groups, humans and the environment, and the past, present, and future.