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SYMMETRY
MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
October 3-4, 2025
Fairfield, IA


Art & Experiences


Circle Project

By Kyle M. Krause

A five-piece installation featuring four mini murals by a collective of artists, connected through a central projection-mapped circle. Raised textures, translucent patterns, programmable backlighting, and multi-layered depth make this piece an evolving and living canvas shaped by community.
Symmetry Festival - Circle Project

CCRTV Wall

By Andrew Chapman

A massive retro-inspired TV wall fusing analog visuals with modern festival energy, transforming into a glowing, pulsing centerpiece.
Symmetry Festival - CCRTV Wall

Cyber Lamp Posts

By Lennen Sanchez

Illuminating the pathway from Main Stage to Vibe Stage, these futuristic lamp posts create a glowing corridor of light and atmosphere.

Derpwall

By Daniel Dejarld

Part installation, part living sketchbook, Derpwall is a large interactive painting wall open for freeform expression, doodles, and collaborative chaos. Paint and staffing are provided during festival hours. Grab a brush and join!
Symmetry Festival - Derpwall

Fairy Houses

By Ashley Nicole Edgerton (Psybrations Artistry) (lead), Regina Goncharenko, Liza Vezikov, Akiyah Jibade, Kali Gourley, Paul J Morehead

These fairy houses are a homeage to the little hands of our Fairy-Field community that birthed and continue to make this special festival happen. This a representation of our joy, our struggles, our triumpths, and our peoples.
Symmetry Festival - Fairy Houses

Fairy Portals

By Anna Clare Walker

The Fairy Portal invites you into a realm where the limitless magic from child-like wonder allows for nature and technology to converge. In this glowing enchanted forest, two portals rise organically from tree trunks— acting as doors to the fairy realm and symbolic gateways into collective imagination. Above the portals, fairies twinkle, guiding participants into a deeper sense of play and curiosity. Crystals climb the surrounding trees and ground, creating a surreal, dreamlike landscape that shifts with the light. By day, the forest feels alive with enchantment; by night, it transforms under blacklight as fluorescent paint illuminates the forest with a vibrant, ethereal glow.
Symmetry Festival - Fairy Portals

Flow Fighter

By Sarah Barnhart

Flow Flighter is one of three fish-inspired painted planes. A retired Piper Tomahawk, she may no longer be flight-worthy, but has been given new life with hand-painted details and LED lights. When not traveling, Flow Flighter resides in Mechanicsburg, PA, where she is featured in a free Halloween display open to the public for trick-or-treaters.
Joining her is a retired Shuttle Experience plane from NASA. This unique piece allows visitors to look inside and interact, complete with avionics and steering wheels. Though it hasn't yet been painted, its presence sparks the imagination—inviting everyone to climb in and feel like they're ready to fly.
Symmetry Festival - Flow Fighter

Fungal Bodies

By Holiday Fagan

Look closely and you might see some mysterious glowing mushrooms nestled in the forest trees. Artist Holiday Fagan brings her Victorian-style lampshade caps that glow to softly to guide pathways at Symmetry.
Symmetry Festival - Fungal Bodies

Futuristic Apothecary

By Kitty Slocum, Alias Foraii

Tucked within the Library, this installation resembles an apothecary of the future, complete with a lore book featuring fantastical creatures and artifacts.
Symmetry Festival - Futuristic Apothecary

Kinect Wall

By Diego Treto

Step into a living canvas of light and distortion. The Interactive Kinect Wall by Glitchwerks invites you to move, play, and watch as your body transforms the space in real time. Built with TouchDesigner and layered in signature glitch graphics, this installation blurs the line between art, technology, and the human form making every interaction a unique, immersive performance.

Luna Moth

By Ann Johnson

A luminous installation inspired by the ethereal beauty of the luna moth. This moth symbolizes the artist's love of light and the wildlife around her home. At Symmetry, spotting this moth is a symbol of good luck.
Symmetry Festival - Luna Moth

Technical Difficulties

By Catherine Roth

"Please stay tuned…" TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES is a replica of a grandparent's living room, filled with relics of the past and a restored CRT TV that viewers can glitch themselves. Using a "magic remote," participants are able to bend the image in real time while a looping video collage of retro footage, secret messages, and found media plays beneath the surface. Hidden poems connect the objects scattered throughout the room, waiting to be discovered by curious visitors.
Symmetry Festival - Technical Difficulties

Tree Hugger

By Zach Bajat

Zach Bajat's vision was to create the feeling of a "half-and-half hug," a meeting point where human connection and humor intertwine with the environment around us. "Por qué no los dos?" Zach asks, as Tree Hugger reminds us that love and comfort can come from surprising places.

Symmetry Archway

By Symmetry Art Team (led by Marissa Cardella, Ti Liptak, & Holden Hagerman)

An intricately cut and illuminated CNC archway welcoming attendees into the Symmetry world.

Symmetry CNC Decor Pieces and Signage

By Symmetry Art Team (led by Marissa Cardella)

A custom CNC-carved installations and custom signage that are wayfinding art pieces placed around the grounds. These are hand crafted and hand painted by our wonderful Symmetry Art Team.

Symmetry Festival Mural by Marissa Cardella

By Marissa Cardella

A psychedelic mural dedicated to the festival's central theme: the balance of nature and technology, expressed through bright colors and layered symmetry.

Flow State Mural by Adam Rauscher

By Adam Rauscher

A striking spray-paint and acrylic mural live-painted at the festival, capturing the essence of creative flow. Ůara uses music to channel creativity through him. The vibes of whatever music is playing weaves itself into the piece, leaving something unique to the circumstance. His art projects spiritual and meditative aspects commonly woven into natural elements featuring bright colors and abstract shapes.

Mural by Lauren Cheney

By Lauren Cheney

Returning for her second year, muralist Lauren Cheney brings a vibrantly painted mural bursting with color and movement.

Mural by Tinker Binx

By Tinker

A playful, large-scale mural blending fantasy, nature, and Tinker Binx's signature whimsical artistry.

MAD Teahouse

By Rogue Sypersma, Catherine Paige, and Paige Holderbaum (WITI, Nonprofit). Sound and Stage Curated by Heathen MADjESTY. Stage build by Local Lore Music Co.

FESTIVAL ACTIVATION
Pokedex Nerdlesque - Saturday
Open Mic Cathartic Cringe- Friday
Drag Queen Karaoke- Thursday
Returning for its second year, the MAD Teahouse is a cozy sanctuary that rose from the fairy mounds and out of the great forest spirits forest to meet Alice for tea in all her madness. Not just a space for tea, conversation, and connection; This unique teahouse offers an experience for all of your senses. Featuring nightly events of queer frivolity. With Drag Karaoke, Open Mic Cathartic Cringe and exclusive to this year- NERDLESQUE Pokédex BURLESQUE on our final night.
Come check out our Artists in Residence gallery, our secret tunnel, relax in our Squishmallow Swimming Pool, sit for a shadow work writing workshop or get your tarot read at the MAD Teahouse.
Uniquely offering free tea, electrolyte drinks, conversation, workshops, and nightly performances to further aid in Harm Reduction. This MAD Teahouse, grew from a mental health nonprofit and continues to make strides in meeting people where they're at to inspire intrapersonal transformation.
This vibing Teahouse serves as not only a chill-out space but also place supporting inner healing, personal growth, and a space to shine.

Magic: The Gathering Tournament

By Wanderers Haul

Shuffle up and play! Wanderers Haul is hosting a Magic: The Gathering Commander tournament at Symmetry. Bring your decks, challenge fellow players, and compete for the prize that awaits the champion.
Wanderer's Haul provides a safe, fun, and welcoming space for all of the gamers in our community.We offer free play space, host MTG tournaments, serve food, have free to play board games, offer rentable space for RPGs or parties, and more!Wander in and see us, adventure awaits!

Maketricks Blacklight Interactive Chill Lounge

By Maketricks Art Collective (Colin, Will & Leihua)

An immersive lounge where glowing blacklight art, interactive elements, a spinning art wheel and multi-colored designs create a playful, otherworldly space for rest and connection.

Post Office Portal

By Tinker Binx (muralist) and Kitty Slocum

This interactive project lets festival-goers write and send real letters, either to someone they know or to a random festival goer, creating moments of connection that extend beyond the weekend. After the festival, letters will be collected, stamped, and mailed with care. "Someone Random" letters will be swapped and sent to another participant.

Theater

By Dave Corby, Kitty Slocum

A mini cinema space featuring full-length and short films (10–15 minutes), carefully curated to spark reflection, shift perspectives, and open minds with powerful messages.

Tile & Rock Painting

By Marissa Cardella

An interactive, hands-on space where attendees can paint tiles and rocks to contribute to a collective community artwork.