Jessica Staples
Photographer, Dancer, Teacher, & Creator
Jessica (she/her) is an Artist, Teacher, Collaborator, and Student. Jessica received her A.A. Degree in Musical Theatre from Casper College in Casper Wyoming, and her B.F.A. in Dance from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. She has been dancing for 20 years, and teaching for 5 years. Jessica has been developing a blindfolded dance class called L.E.D. Dance. She has trained in many dance styles including Musical Theatre, Contemporary, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Ballet, Pointe, Modern, and Hip Hop. Jessica pursues many art forms alongside dance, including photography and music. Since 2019 Jessica has been traveling the country photographing dancers. She plays many instruments including Guitar, Violin, and Ukulele and she loves to write songs. She values collaboration and loves to create with other artists. Jessica believes in the ongoing pursuit of knowledge and will therefore forever be a student.
Patrick Heslip
Filmmaker, Videographer, Dancer & Teacher
Patrick (he/they) is both a classical and street dancer with a heavy emphasis in hip hop styles such as waving, popping and breakin’ who began dancing in 2015. Patrick studied Dance at Missouri State from 2018-2022 and graduated with a BS in dance. Throughout the last 5 years, Patrick has been teaching hip hop dance to students in Springfield, Mo and the surrounding area; his goal is to focus on helping his students build an evolving relationship with street dance by exploring the many histories of hip hop and the technique of individual styles. Patrick teaches a self-built curriculum that pairs an informed kinesiological approach to dance with studying past and current practitioners of Hip Hop dance through various forms of media and movement technique.
Rylan Lavery
Audio, Curator, Host
Rylan (he/him) is a professionally trained actor who spent time training at Missouri State University. During this time he also worked as a production assistant on a stadium concert tour until the Covid lockdown shut down the touring industry. During this off time he found the Web 3.0 space in the spring of 2020. He recently spent the last few years working as an executive producer for a talk radio show until he decided to make the leap into web 3.0 marketing full time. He enjoys producing audio that tells a story and helps generate discussion about important topics, but most of all he enjoys spending time with his dog Winston.
OUR MISSION
IngeNEWity is a collective art community focused on creating thoughtful multimedia art. Our goal is to present engaging visuals while combining various art forms. We do this by showcasing collaborative processes and individual artistry. IneNEWity aims to achieve this by applying, sharing, and growing our education.
Things we aim to achieve for artists:
Establishing an open artistic outlet across all artistic crafts to create the content that the artist themselves desire to make.
To grow each artists craft and break down the barriers that separate artistic forms of expression
To make hybrid forms of art by experimenting across various mediums via collaboration with others
