Name: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts Conference
Start: 2026-03-12T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-14T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market

Join us at the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts conference on March 12-14, 2025 in Omaha, NE!
About this Event

Kicking off the conference will be pre-conference sessions and workshops on Thursday March 12 in the afternoon (separate registration required, see below). This will be followed by a social event on Thursday March 12 followed by programming from 9AM to 5PM on Friday and Saturday.

Our exciting program will have a wide range of sessions that showcase the scope and diversity of our division’s scholarship:

keynote talks by leading international researchers
thematic symposia, individual talks, and posters
the “Student Showcase” for students-only research
mentoring and networking events for students and early-career researchers

Pre-Conference Session Details

We are pleased to offer two pre-conference sessions on Thursday March 12 -- to attend one of these sessions, please select the appropriate pre-conference ticket in addition to your conference registration at checkout. Please note that these sessions will run concurrently, so attendance at both will not be possible.

Network science in creativity research

Yoed N. Kennett

Network science is based on mathematical graph theory, offering a multidisciplinary quantitative approach to represent complex systems as networks. Over the past two decades, it has been increasingly applied in creativity research, across cognitive, personality, psychometric, and neural domains. This workshop will provide an introduction, basic network tools, and hands-on experience on network analysis in creativity research, for anyone interested in such multidisciplinary creativity research.

Art Museum Experiences for Connection and Transformation: A (Playful) Workshop on Mapping Impact, Aligning Outcomes, and Designing Interventions

Aleksandra Sherman & Aleksandra Igdalova

Explore how activity-based art experiences can foster engagement, creativity, transformation, and connection. In this play-inspired, hands-on workshop, psychologists and museum professionals will co-design creative interventions, reflect on shared outcomes, and consider how these can be meaningfully studied and applied in real-world museum contexts, with shared visual and written outputs.