Ivory is an award-winning audiovisual performer who is a musician, artist and inventor based in Kansas City, Kansas. The audience listened to her spontaneous performance — the art of the exhibition was “POSITIVE NEGATIVE.”

The audience learns that Ivory’s passion for using technology to create immersive experiences fuels her mission to reignite the innate spark of creativity within the community. She collaborated with different musical and artistic organizations, including the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Kansas State School for the Blind, Art Moves Us Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival and more.

Ivory hosts free public events in Kansas City, Kansas once a month so that the audience can experience her instrument— the coloratura. The coloratura, invented by her, is a system of musical paintbrushes that enables artists to represent their unique notes and colors.

Ivory performs the art of audio and painting composition in combination with a tangible, analogous piece of art. She sang in her voice and used background music of her own while painting with the coloratura.

According to Ivory, her family is the biggest motivation for her during the art performance journey since they support her to be different and create her own style. She frequently used 12 colors that follow the RGB color system to create her artwork.

Ivory especially highlights the importance of creativity in AI development. The audience learned that her passion for using technology to create immersive experiences fuels her mission to reignite the innate spark of creativity within the community.

There are questions and answers at the end of the performance for Ivory to share about her art journey and how coloratura works. Ivory explained that as the brushes touch the canvas, color and sound blend into one, emulating synesthesia for users and observers.

The audience gets closer to see the colorature. Ivory hoped that children and students would have a chance to create their own instruments within the school to develop their creative process.

As the background of a dancer, Ivory’s vision is to connect with more artists in the future, which could help her add more factors to the artwork, such as lighting and dancing. Audiences had a chance to take a visit tour around the Washburn Rita Blitt Gallery after the performance.