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Center for Creative Studies UMKC 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri, 64110-2499 Phone: 816.235.6690 Fax: 816.235.6588 Email: creativestudies@umkc.edu Website: http://www.umkc.edu/creativestudies/ The UMKC Center for Creative Studies was established in 2002 in response to UMKC’s goal of national leadership in scholarship and creative activity and to help fulfill UMKC’s mission to deepen and expand the visual and performing arts. Under the leadership of Dr. Margaret Brommelsiek, the Center has evolved into an intellectual resource for faculty, students, staff and community, and provides programs that serve in exploring creativity and innovation in all academic areas and developing interdisciplinary cross-cultural opportunities for understanding the creative process and the role creativity plays in shaping contemporary society. With a primary focus on research, the Center’s reach expands into all areas of academic and community life. Since its inception, the Center has presented numerous artistic and educational programs including a lecture series, art exhibitions, and research projects. Current projects include facilitating a partnership with the UMKC Conservatory of Music and School of Biological Sciences to derive sound from DNA analysis. Working with the Department of Sociology and Department of Theater, the Center is documenting a design charrette and investigating what constitutes a culture of creativity. A collaborative art exhibition titled the Innocents , with the School of Law and Department of Art & Art History is also being realized. Outside of the University community, the Center is currently collaborating with the Kansas City Art Institute and the School of the Chicago Art Institute on an exhibition of artists Jesse Howard & Roger Brown, and with the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City on a series of creativity workshops. Each program of the Center aims to fulfill the mission, ‘to serve as a catalyst for exploring the creative process’ and its vision, ‘igniting the imagination in research, scholarship, and community’.