Ingenuity Cleveland was conceived as IngenuityFest - a multi-day, multi-venue event exploring unlikely places and perspectives and inviting Ohio residents and tourists to re-discover the city as alive and vibrant. IngenuityFest celebrated the post-industrial landscape and re-animated vacant storefronts & abandoned alleys that had long been ignored with a cross-pollination of arts, technology, and entrepreneurship. Over the years, the Festival moved from Public Square to Gateway/East 4th Street, Playhouse Square, the Cleveland State University campus, the Streetcar level of the Detroit Superior Bridge, and finally to Cleveland’s NorthCoast Harbor, before settling in St. Clair-Superior in our current home, a 6-acre, 100 year-old formerly dormant factory.
IngenuityFest includes immersive artwork; exhibits in technology & innovation; artisan vendors; educational offerings and half a dozen stages featuring hundreds of musicians, dancers, poets, and performances of all types