In January 2010, Simon Dove (Director School of Dance) and Eileen Standley (Faculty School of Dance) initiated a pilot research group consisting of faculty members from each school in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Initially, the Creative Inquiry Research Group (CIRG) was conceived as an opportunity to share and survey commonalities of what creative inquiry means to each artistic field and how that is incorporated into faculty members’ teaching, research specialties, and artistic work processes.