Creativity: Think Tank/Symposiums

Welcome to INGENIUMCreatives 

May 21- 23, 2023
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Student Union Ballrooms

Our Mission

INGENIUMCreatives is a Creativity: Think Tank and Symposium. We are an annual forum/symposium for open presentations, think tanks, round tables, impromptu break-out sessions, panels, improvisations, workshops, contemporary critical research discussions, and varied theoretical reflections on the Creative Practice.
We celebrate divergent thinkers and seek to provide and promote a space where useful ideas, solutions, and collaborations within a global audience will flourish.   We intend to advance the cultural and practical landscape of Creatives in all disciplines of Industry, Science, Communication, and Art and to help tackle the newest frontiers of ingenuity and ethics. We invite our Global communities to come together to participate in a shared dialogue that is inclusive, that is expansive, and that is relevant for our time. We purport to impact the future through our present focus on “possibility thinking” and scrutinizing the origins, nature, cultivation, importance, and preservation of creativity.

Featured Partnership

"Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education" is a new peer-reviewed open access eJournal—collaboratively brought to life by the international Alliance for the Arts Research Universities (a2ru) network, and a2ru member UNLV—provides a multimedia forum to address this and connected questions by exploring how creative work, teaching/mentoring, and knowledge creation/research are linked and in conversation with one another.

Link to the Journal

Our Team

Cathy Allen
Director
Associate Professor of
Dance -UNLV
Artistic Director: reddesertdance.org

Suzie Khalil
Co-Director
Conceptual Artist, Researcher, Cognitive Scientist Fellowships at The Ohio State University (MFA) and Arizona State University (PHD)

Roberta Sabbath
Senior Advisor
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Religious Studies Director and Visiting Assistant Professor UNLV

Dana Blickensderfer
Ms. Blickensderfer co-founded an international strategic digital firm American artist, entrepreneur, and editor-in-chief

Jonatas
Brazilian-American Symbolist artist, author, academic, and public speaker

Steven Neuberg
Chair of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University

James Surwillo
Surwillo is a writer of ancient Wisdom and Metamodern Leadership.  He is also a performance consultant to a Fortune 500 company

Kimberly Howard
Executive Director, Caldera Arts Chair, Oregon State Board of Education; Member of the board of directors for Portland Playhouse, and the Center for Performance and Civic Practice

Shahab Zargari
Filmmaker, music lover, author and entrepreneur. Video and Technical Support UNLV College of Fine Arts

Matthew Pruitt
Lawyer - Focused on corporate law, contracts, litigation, judgment collection, entertainment, intellectual property, estate planning, and real estate

Dr. David Hirschman
Pediatrician having served 20 years providing emergency medicine care and leadership at Children's Minnesota Hospital
 

Michael Fong
Assistant Professor of Art Digital fabrication technology and research

Indranee Clarke
Is a dancer, choreographer, model, Voice-over Artist, Actor, and Singer. Master Acharya, Classical Yoga and Meditation. Gold and Silver medals 

Ari Hischman
Fine Art Sculptor - Specializing in abstracted figurative sculpture . Past engineer with AOL network developer.

James Jeon
Founding Artistic Director of Seoul Ballet, Seoul, Korea Best choreography by Moomm Dance Magazine and
Snow White

Chiao-Ping Li
Former Chair of the UW-Madison Dance Department Li Chiao-Ping Dance 1994 and co-directed the SF-based Dziga Vertov Performance Group with Douglas Rosenberg 

Jill Kashiwagi
Program Manager responsible to lead and execute the TOMODACHI Metlife Women’s Leadership Program for the 2021-2022 year. 

Blake Kashiwagi
Driver Experience Director- Executive for Truck Daimier North America Head of Mechatronics Engineering - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation

Cheselyn Amato
Interdisciplinary visual artist, experiential designer, sanctity-imbued space/place designer, and a sound and spoken-text improvisational performer committed to the celebration and healing of self, others, humanity, the world, and the cosmos

Jimmy Lockett
Owner, J.O.L. Productions
Actor; Cats and Big River on Broadway


Jessica Williams 
Interim Chair National Technical Institute of the Deaf;  Author and Keynote speaker