Ingenuity

Ingenuity was born from a city-wide collective impact movement that coalesced hundreds of arts education stakeholders in solving a complex problem: arts inequities in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Since 2011, Ingenuity has collected and analyzed CPS school-level data to influence sector-wide decision-making, fuel arts-supportive policies, and identify opportunities for improved resource distribution to all CPS students.

We lead collective efforts across public and private sectors to launch data-driven frameworks that are helping to close the gap to arts education access in CPS schools. Ingenuity serves as the “connective tissue” between Chicago’s arts education stakeholders, including small local arts organizations, large cultural institutions, teaching artists, CPS leadership, and the City of Chicago. Together, we advance systemic change in CPS arts education through data and research, partnerships and learning, systems building, and direct investments in CPS schools. To learn more about Ingenuity’s work, visit our website: www.ingenuity-inc.org.