Events

Join us at the ideaXfactory for an urban birdsong workshop and smart-mob action on the Square! April 4th — Evening Song On April 4th from 5:30-6:30 p.m., the ideaXfactory will host a training workshop for Morning Song/Evening Song, a sound installation organized by Gerard Nadeau, professor of architecture at Drury University. The installation will consist … Read More

The 20th annual Drury Beaux Arts Ball and Charity Art Auction will be held on April 5th at the ideaXfactory in downtown Springfield, 351 N. Boonville Ave. Suggested donation for the event is $10. The doors will open at 7:00pm, beginning with the silent auction. The live auction will follow at 8:30pm, with the dance … Read More

On March 7, Friday from 7 to 10 p.m., ideaXfactory will feature an immersive psychedelic video projection by Russ RuBert using thousands of little light beams reading depth, space, and motion to create an interactive environment of light and sound. Visitors can perform their attendance, and the space will sense that and send send waves … Read More

Explore wild and creative art installations inspired by coffee swizzle sticks during First Night Springfield downtown New Year’s Eve celebration of the Arts. Outside walk through a 40′ long tunnel woven from sticks and watch giant projections transform silos into a giant moving gallery wall of animated stick connections by artist Russ RuBert. Inside walk … Read More

Art of Space returns to the ideaXfactory with a new installation titled Woven Lignin/ Pick-up Stick Pavilion! Join Art of Space to help create the installation at the ideaXfactory on Saturdays Nov. 16 and Nov. 30 at 10 am, and on Tuesdays & Thursdays Nov. 19, Nov. 21, Dec. 3 and Dec. 5, to participate … Read More

On Friday, November 1 during the First Friday Art Walk, Sarah Greenbaum will present her performance installation “#Everybody All The Time” at the ideaXfactory at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. Greenbaum is a BFA Senior Dance Major at Missouri State University. For the project, she will be collaborating with Alec Brown, Jaime Daniels, Carmen Hartmann, Gavin … Read More

We have partnered with the Urban Districts Alliance, LemonDrop and The Community Partnership for this great event! Join us in ideaXfactory’s grassy lot for live art! This month’s FTBD (Friday to be Downtown) summer event series on September 6 from 6 to 9 pm will be on ideaXfactory’s grassy lot  at the corner of Boonville … Read More

Contemporary Art Street Jam on July 5-6 will keep the weekend lively with Live Art, Live Music, painting, sculpture, raku, robots, zines, mosaics, bubble art, PechaKucha X,  and more! Starting during First Friday Art Walk on July 5 Mill Street will be closed at the corner of Boonville and Mill for art events in the … Read More

The weekend of July 5-6 the ideaXfactory, in collaboration with SquidFoo, RuBert Studios, MSU Ceramics Department, and the Springfield Art Museu, will present the Contemporary Art Street Jam! We are closing Mill Street and having events in ideaXfactory and SquidFoo and in the street and in the alley behind SF and in our grassy lot. … Read More