J.A.M. Fest 2026

Jana’s Art and Music Festival in Downtown State College

J.A.M. Fest is a community-wide mental wellness day designed to help increase well-being, build connections, and foster self-expression. Held annually in downtown State College, the event features live music, yoga, meditation, stations for creative expression, artwork to view, and more.

Art, music, and creative expression are lifelong sources of resilience, self-confidence, and happiness, so save the date for this fun-filled event.

Thank you to this year’s key sponsors, Mount Nittany Health and GP Audio, for keeping this event accessible and fun! Thank you to all of our generous sponsors for helping to open minds and save lives! Learn more about them below.

Family Friendly Free Event

Join the fun!

Saturday, May 16, 2026
Noon-5 pm

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza & 100 Block of Fraser St.

people making beaded bracelets at an outdoor table at a street festival

Last Year's Engagement Stations

From 2025 

Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State
Ride the waves and join in a Moana themed activity!

Centre County Youth Service Bureau
Station details coming soon!

Centre Helps
Make a Worry Stone with Centre Helps! Choose your colors of air dry clay and create your own pocket-sized stress reliever.

Centre LGBT+
Create a colorful rainbow craft!

Centre Safe
Pick up some fresh coloring sheets and other goodies at the Centre Safe table!

ClearWater Conservancy
Learn about outdoor, enviro friendly, nature-based wellness!

Discovery Space/The Rivet
Join The Rivet and Kaleidoscope PA to paint floral-inspired watercolor bookmarks and explore how creativity helps us slow down and connect. Take a moment to relax, express yourself, and leave with a handmade piece that’s uniquely yours.

Doing Good with Wood
Doing Good with Wood will engage passersby in the creation of simple wooden kazoos and slide whistles (while supplies last). Build an instrument by gluing and screwing precut parts together and quickly learn to play any song you know!

Jana Marie Foundation
Make a personalized button pin, decorate a floral tealight holder, string together jewelry at the bead bar, and check out JMF swag at the info booth!

A Journey to You, LLC.
Spin the coping skill wheel and try out different strategies to self-regulate. Thank you to A Journey to You, LLC. for sponsoring this year’s festival!

The Makery
Join a mindful artmaking offering in The Makery’s open studio.

The Meadows Psychiatric Center
Station details coming soon! Thank you to The Meadows Psychiatric Center for sponsoring this year’s festival!

Nittany Balloons
New this year! From 3-5 pm, get your very own balloon animal from Nittany Balloons!

Nittany Valley Sports Centre
Kick a field goal with our friends at The Centre.

Oasis Lifecare
Station details coming soon!

Peerstar, LLC
Station details coming soon! Thank you to Peerstar, LLC for sponsoring this year’s festival!

The Real Monster D
From the artist himself: “I am Monster D, and I am here to MONSTERIZE you into a unique ‘caricreature’ drawing fully inspired by your very own wonderful likes, interests, and curiosities.”

Rising Hope Therapeutic Riding Center
Color your very own horse picture. Maybe give it to your neigh-bor!

SCAHS National Art Honors Society and EmpowHER
Face painting, body art, and henna tattoos will be offered by State High students! These groups help to build community through leadership and service in the State College Area.

Skills of Central PA/Centre Opportunity Clubhouse
Make your own custom slime!

St. Joseph Institute
Write a positive message on a piece of paper and put it in a bottle. Then, leave that bottle for someone else and pick a bottle up that was left by someone else. Thank you to St. Joseph Institute for sponsoring this year’s festival!

Tempest Productions
Imaginative play featuring costumes, StoryBook Theatre, puppets, and crafts!

Tides
At the Tides table, guests will have the opportunity to honor a loved one through creativity by creating unique and personal mandala ornaments to honor someone special or as a tribute to a loved one.

Duck Donuts is donating 20% of their proceeds during J.A.M. Fest to Jana Marie Foundation if you order at the register (not online/mobile), so be sure to grab some fresh donuts to snack on if you’d like!

Sponsors

Image thanking sponsors including Mount Nittany Health, Arize Federal Credit Union, The Meadows Psychiatric Center, Reamking Learning Days, PeerStar, GP Audio, Community Care, A Journey to You LLC, St. Joseph Institute, Strawberry Fields

ReGister For A Table

J.A.M. Fest 2026
I understand that my organization will be responsible for setting up and tearing down our booth in addition to bringing a table and any necessary supplies.
I acknowledge the expectation that my organization will stay for the entire event.
I will provide Jana Marie Foundation with my organization’s certificate of insurance.