SWEET DREAMS & FULL OF STEAM!

All Aboard For 
IngenuityFest 2025: Forging the Future!

We're just a week away from IngenuityFest 2025: Forging the Future and still offering tons of savings with Agents of Ingenuity Tickets! 
All agents receive weekend admission plus admission to our VIP cocktail reception Friday September 26 from 6:30-8pm, including small bites and cocktails, a complimentary Drinks or T-shirts package, tickets to our year-round events including Flannel & Finery (December 6th) and the Ingenuity Bal, held annually in May. Memberships are on sale and your support TODAY ensures savings for your, plus our best festival yet!

WHAT TO EXPECT from INGENUITYFEST:

This year's event is chock-full of Art and Technology, Industry & Innovation, plus the everything audiences have come to know and expect: Dozens of Immersive Exhibits, Off the Wall Performances, Hands-on Demonstrations and more!

Experience the innovation of yesterday and today, with partners who explore traditional technologies from forging and metalwork to the new industries and design-based thinking of tomorrow!

Ingenuity is full STEAM ahead, with glassblowing and blacksmithing, papermaking and more . . .

Meanwhile guests are invited to step into a DREAM, where experimental performance thrives and unexpected collaborations light the way . . .

Overall, this year's festival will welcome more than 100 exhibits and immersive installations, 60 performance groups and so much more including Art-Tech Installations such as:

• The new Ingenuity STEAMshop featuring large-scale light-and-sound immersive sculptures by animation and inflatable artist Xacto Mundo and multimedia artist Ed Morra. 
• Soundscape artist Bbob Drake’s large-scale pipe organ installation “Organism,” surrounding audiences with original compositions.
• International installation artist and engineer Gazelle Dasti, debuting “NewClear Neural”, an audience-participatory sculpture which invites guests to step inside an 18-foot stainless steel human bust, driving an LED light array in the cranium by a people-powered merry-go-round.
• Colorado-based Story Portal, who will delight guests with an interactive mechanical set that invites guests to spin a yarn, tell a tale, and join in for a sing-along or interactive acoustic sets.
• Liquid Light artist Noah Hubbard, presenting the immersive “Xenocyclotron” experience, and composer Tom Stoll of Barking Kitten Productions, creating a “Digital Grotto” in which an immersive soundscape is “played” with dripping water
• Chris Seibert’s “Artists in the Altogether” and Tanya Kaiser’s “Confessional Womb,” inviting intimate moments from audience members
• Brian Gesler’s “Smoke & Mirrors,” inviting guests into a larger-than-life board game with human-scaled playing pieces challenging teams to navigate a maze with lasers
• Visual artist Fiona Harper-Latkovich, presenting immersive video installation entitled “Murmuration” based on traditional animation techniques
• Joshua Cohen of PDA Woodworks large-scale interactive sculptures

Photos: PDA Woodworks, Top, Robert Rhu's Story Portal, Middle, and Gazelle Dasti's "NewClear Neural."

Additional Offerings Include:

• IngenuityFest’s Family Village hosting workshops and maker activities for all ages, in partnership with Cleveland Public Library, Central State University Extension and more!
• Visual artist and curator Bobbi Reagins will present “Black Kaleidoscope: Looking Beyond,” an extension of her annual Black Arts Showcase.
• Ideation Station: community exhibitors and entrepreneurs showcase projects that highlight the future of Cleveland, as well as technology partners like Kent State’s Design Innovation Hub.
• Visiting researcher and cultural strategist Naomi Lord’s fully immersive Ear to the Ground listening project “Paradise of Displacement,” challenging visitors to engage with complex dialogue which celebrate the arts as agents of cultural understanding.
• Rollerskating & Bumper Cars from Rollin’ Buckeyez Foundation
• Makers Mecca featuring more than 50 artisan vendors
• Mechanique Biotique and IndusTREE alley featuring sustainability exhibits and opportunities for hands-on tinkering and technology with partners like Lincoln Electric, NASA and MotoGo
• Refreshment stations throughout including dozen food trucks and beverages by Goldhorn Brewery and Watershed Distillery.

WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!

We're so grateful to these partners and more!

IngenuityFest 2025: Forging the Future is presented with major support from Gund Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, Ohio Arts Council, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, Swagelok, Thompson Hine, Case Western Reserve University, Turner, Gilbane, and many other generous donors.

Each year, hundreds of volunteers help make IngenuityFest happen and ensure the event runs smoothly. These volunteers choose shifts in areas including art support, gate and greeters, sustainability, and other logistical positions. All volunteers receive a free t-shirt and weekend pass to the festival! People can sign up by filling out Ingenuity’s online form.