Art in Wilder Park

As the first outdoor festival in the region each year, Art in Wilder Park is a highly anticipated Spring event in Chicago's western suburbs. Last year's event included over 130 booths of one-of-a-kind art, food vendors, and hands-on kid's activities, a "super" public art installation, and drew over 11,500 visitors.

In 2023 the two-day event was voted one of the Best in the West, featured in numerous press outlets, and attracted nearly half of its visitors from outside Elmhurst. Discoverable on the weekend of the 27th Annual Art in Wilder Park in 2024 will be a newly commissioned public art installation of life-sized monsters drawn by cartoonist Dave Pryor inspired by children's drawings.