Open tours of artists’ studios, aerial yoga, writing workshops, interactive art, burlesque, historic walking tours, Piknik Theatre, Strings Music Festival, opera, symphony, music and dance — it’s all included in All Arts Week.

“Over the past four days, I have been to more arts events than I have been to in months, and I am happier than I have been in months,” said Dagny McKinley, executive director of Undiscovered Earth, one of the organizations that helped pull All Arts Week together.

To highlight the power of art in all its forms, McKinley pointed to studies showing that arts engagement — not just creating art, but listening to a concert or watching an artist perform — can change people’s brains for the better by releasing serotonin and dopamine.

“Creating art, even doodling, can improve brain health, create new brain connections and even build community,” McKinley said.

While All Arts Week began July 26, there are still a lot more events running through this Sunday.

All Arts Week is the product of teamwork by Art with Altitude, Grathwohl Creative and Undiscovered Earth. As McKinley described the partnership, the organizers of All Arts Week had no idea how many arts and cultural activities take place every week in Northwest Colorado.

For example, McKinley cited the Farmer’s Market, free concerts and historic walking tours, as well as the aforementioned list of offerings. She also explained that, by catering to such a wide variety of interests, All Arts Week has produced a lineup that features a variety of ways to get involved that’s right for just about every comfort level.

In fact, folks can join in on All Arts Week with a guided walking tour of the Yampa River Botanic Park at 10 a.m. Friday. Later in the day, the First Friday Artwalk will be from 5-8 p.m. with the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra at the Steamboat Art Museum, which also has “The Painted Word” on exhibit, and Opera Steamboat at the Jace Romick Gallery.

Later Friday night, there will be “Night of Dance & Willy Wonka” at the Perry-Mansfield campus, 40755 Routt County Road 36.

There will also be open studio tours with local artists on Saturday and Sunday where people can get inside the artists’ studios to see the world they surround themselves with when they create their work. To cap things off, the week will end with a roller skating disco party at the base of the ski resort from 6-10 p.m. Sunday.

“This is a week where you can pay what you can and enjoy what you want,” McKinley said. “If ever there was a week to explore the arts, engage in the arts and put a smile on your face, this is it. I’ll be there because I can’t get enough.”

For a complete All Arts Week schedule of events, go to UndiscoveredEarth.org/all-arts-week-calendar-2/.