Dreamscapes Galore: Ingenuity Fest 2019

“Ingenuity, born as Cleveland’s Festival of Art and Technology, has certainly been through some bleak times.” . . . That’s how CAN’s Michael Gill began a review of the re-energized Festival one year ago. And here we are a year later, with another wildly successful festival under their belts (judging by the amount of people I saw posting photos on […]

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Ingenuity – Luis Ituarte, Tijuana, Mexico / Los Angeles, California: Borderlines: one part aesthetics, one part social construction

When Luis Ituarte considers the idea of borders, it is not in the traditional sense where lines of demarcation are drawn to signify one’s crossing into new territory. Instead, Ituarte’s approach is more Post-western. He recognizes notion of borders geographical and otherwise, but raises a question: why do we have borders to begin with? It’s a simple question, but in […]

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New Awakenings, with Ingenuity

Ingenuity is a 21st century nonprofit that promotes and cultivates creativity in service to civic progress. For years, we’ve done this by shining the light on underutilized resources in Downtown Cleveland’s urban core. Now, our city as a whole has never looked better.  Where does this leave one arts nonprofit still looking to make an impact?   For the first […]

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