Participants include Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Yuval Noah Harari, Laurent Le Bon (Centre Pompidou, Fmr. Musée Picasso), David Rubin (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), Neil Patrick Harris, George Pelecanos, Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian Nat’l Museum of African American History & Culture), George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Jericho Brown, Chris Dercon (Grand Palais), Mechtild Rössler (UNESCO World Heritage Centre), Dimitrios Pandermalis (Acropolis Museum), Marilyn Minter, Ian Wardropper (The Frick Collection), Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries)...+

BROWSE OUR GUESTS ACROSS THE ARTS & SCIENCES

ART
Mark Seliger, Paul Chaat Smith (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian), Susan Fisher Sterling (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Laurent Le Bon (Centre Pompidou · Fmr. President Musée Picasso), Chris Dercon (Grand Palais · Fmr. Director TATE Modern), Ioannis Trohopoulos (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center), Dwandalyn Reece (Smithsonian Nat’l Museum of African American History & Culture), William Kentridge, Mickalene Thomas, Dimitrios Pandermalis (Acropolis Museum), Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), Mechtild Rössler (UNESCO World Heritage Centre), Martha Thorne (Pritzker Architecture Prize), Herzog & de Meuron, Richard Flood (New Museum), John Marciari (Morgan Library & Museum), Janis Staggs (Neue Galerie), Ian Wardropper (The Frick Collection), Marilyn Minter, Jacques Villeglé, Nicole Fleetwood, André Delpuech (Musée de l'Homme), Sébastien Gokalp (Musée national de l'histoire de l’immigration, Fondation Louis-Vuitton), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou), Ralph Gibson, Jennifer Flay (FIAC), Kostas Paschalidis (National Archeological Museum, Athens), Bénédicte Alliot (Cité Internationale des Arts), Yves Winkin (Musée des Arts et Métiers), Mojeb Al Zahrani (Institut du Monde Arabe), Valerie Steele (Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology), Eric Fischl, Alicia Longwell (Parrish Art Museum), George Manginis (Benaki Museum), Romain Veillon, Dorothea Rockburne, Elissa Auther (Museum of Arts and Design), Christina Mossaides Strassfield (Guild Hall of East Hampton), April Gornik, Petra Cortright, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Helen Harrison (Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center) Karl Gaff, Ami Vitale, Frans Lanting, FX Harsono, Micol Hebron, Mark Mennin, Robert J. Lang, Debra Kerr (Intuit, Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art), Kiriakos Spirou, Paul Salmona (Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme), Jacques Franck, Reem Bassous, Barbara Baert, Pinaree Sanpitak, Steve Miller, Miki Kratsman, Michael Portnoy, Mats Hjelm, Paton Miller, Tanner Woodford (Design Museum of Chicago), Vlad Sokhin, Herakleidon Museum, Gabrielle Selz, Wendy Morris, Claudia Bueno, Lynn Gumpert (Grey Art Museum, NYU), among others
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WRITERS
Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Jericho Brown, Siri Hustvedt, Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Yuval Noah Harari, Jeffrey Rosen (National Constitution Center), Tom Perrotta, Noam Chomsky, Ioannis Trohopoulos (UNESCO World Book Capital), George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ana Castillo, David Tomas Martinez, George Pelecanos, Rebecca Walker, Isabel Allende, Ian Buruma, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limon, John d’Agata, Rick Moody, Marie Darrieussecq, Paul Auster, Robert Olen Butler, Yiyun Li, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Yann Martel, Junot Díaz, Edna O’Brien, Eimear McBride, Jung Chang, Jane Smiley, Marge Piercy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sara Paretsky, Michel Faber, Carmen Maria Machado, T.C. Boyle, Jay McInerney, Etgar Keret, Ann Beattie, DBC Pierre, Adam Alter, Janet Burroway, Geoff Dyer, Jenny Bhatt, Hala Alyan, Jeannie Vanasco, Lan Samantha Chang (Iowa Writers Workshop), Daniel Khalastchi, Harold Bloom, Alice Fulton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Bierbauer, Stephen Hamilton, Alice Notley, Christopher Merill, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Emma Walton Hamilton, Krys Lee, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, Buzz Bissinger, Charles R. Johnson, Darcy Steinke, Charles Baxter, Michael Pollan, Heather Ann Thompson, Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity Long Room Hub), Susan Scarf Merrell, Frederic Tuten, Jan Baetens, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, and others
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FILM / TV
Neil Patrick Harris, David Rubin (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences), Matthew Libatique (A Star is Born, Black Swan), Martin Ruhe (The Midnight Sky), Alice Brooks (In the Heights), Jack Thorne (Harry Potter & the Cursed Child), George Pelecanos (The Wire, The Deuce), Neil Gaiman (American Gods), Alan Edward Bell (The Hunger Games),David Hollander (Ray Donovan), Marian Macgowan (The Great), Jay Roach (Bombshell, Austin Powers), Paul Hirsch (Star Wars, Mission Impossible), Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Carter Burwell (Carol, Twilight), Alan Alda, Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Joe Mantegna, Robert Nathan (Law & Order, ER), Jane Alexander, John Powell (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Bourne films), Stuart Dryburgh (The Piano), Amy Aniobi (Insecure), Salvador Pérez (President Costume Designers Guild, The Mindy Project), Cindy Chupack (Sex & the City, Modern Family), Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Howard Rodman (Sundance Institute, Fmr. President Writers Guild of America West), Colleen Atwood (Sweeney Todd, Chicago), Tom Perrotta (The Leftovers, Mrs. Fletcher), Marcelo Zarvos (Wonder, Fences), Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail), James Schamus (Focus Features & Symbolic Exchange), Ian Seabrook (Jungle Cruise, Batman v Superman), Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall), Tema Staig & Allison Vanore (Women in Media), Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands), Jordan Kerner (Charlotte’s Web, Fried Green Tomatoes), Jonathan Furmanski (Search Party), Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Harris Yulin, Denson Baker (Get Out), François Clemmons (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood), Rob Pearlstein (MacGyver), James McDaniel (NYPD Blue), Trish Sie (Pitch Perfect 3), Peter Weller, Alan Jacobsen (The Lonliest Whale), Michael Maren (Shriver), Albert Serra (Last days of Louis XIV), Ante Cheng & Matthew Chuang (Blue Bayou), Jim Jermanok, John Matysiak (Old Henry), Josh Pais, Linh Nga (Inside this Peace), among others
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ENVIRONMENT & STEM
Kathleen Rogers (EARTHDAY·ORG), Jeffrey Sachs (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network), Ingrid Newkirk (PETA), Fred Krupp (Environmental Defense Fund), Jennifer Morgan (Greenpeace), Peter Singer, David Lloyd (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Bill Hare (Climate Analytics), Hans Bruyninckx (European Environment Agency), Hans-Josef Fell (Energy Watch Group), Samuel Myers (Planetary Health Alliance), Suzanne Simard (Mother Tree Project), Jennifer Morris (The Nature Conservancy), Mark R. Kramer (FSG Reimagining Social Change), Ibrahim AlHusseini (FullCycle), Mike Davis (Global Witness), Osprey Orielle Lake (Women's Earth & Climate Action Network), Jean Weiner (Foundation for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity), Dr. Joeri Rogelj (UN Environment Program, Grantham Institute), Jeffrey Sachs (Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University), Dr. Farhana Sultana, Anders Levermann (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Nick Meynen ( European Environmental Bureau), Martin von Hildebrand (Gaia Amazonas), Linda S. Birnbaum (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Toxicology Program) Gary Griggs (Ocean Protection Council), Craig Kauffman (United Nations Knowledge Network on Harmony with Nature), Anantha Duraiappah (UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development), Nicholas Christakis (Human Nature Lab, Yale Institute for Network Science), Impossible Foods, Degrowth, Eric Dinerstein (WildTech & Biodiversity & Wildlife Solutions at RESOLVE), Jason W. Moore (World-Ecology Research Network), Todd Miller, McKenzie Funk, Seth Siegel, Gaia Vince, Orrin H. Pilkey, Mary Edna Fraser, Bayyinah Bello (Fondasyon Felicitee), Giulio Boccaletti, Carlos Souza Jr. (MapBiomas, Imazon), Rob Nixon (Humanities & the Environment, Princeton), Ties van der Hoeven (The Weather Makers), Ron Gonen (Closed Loop Partners), Jane Madgwick (Wetlands International), Martin von Hildebrand (Gaia Amazonas), Merlin Sheldrake, Brian Wilcox (Marine Bioenergy), Megan Donohue (American Astronomical Society), Mechtild Rössler (UNESCO World Heritage Centre), Rob Pringle, Jess Wilber (Citizens’ Climate Lobby), Diana Chaplin (One Tree Planted). Kristin Ohlson, Heide Hackmann (International Science Council), Romain Troublé (Fondation Tara Océan), Shimon Schwarzschild (Action for Nature), Stephanie LeMenager, Robert A. Bilott, Karen Pinkus, George Ellis(International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation · International Society for Science and Religion), Antonella Wilby (Contextual Robotics Institute, National Geographic), Jon Gertner, Melissa Cristina Marquez (NatGeo Explorer), Johannes Stripple & Harriet Bulkeley (Earth Systems Governance), Kyle Harper, Gator Halpern (Coral Vita), Tiemen ter Hoeven (Roetz), Paul Shapiro (The Better Meat Co.), Rowin Snijder (Le Compostier), Peter Sutoris (Educating for the Anthropocene), Conny Aerts (Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven), among others
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THEATRE
Doug Wright (Dramatists Guild of America), Neil Patrick Harris, Gavin James Creel (The Book of Mormon), John Benjamin Hickey, Joe Mantegna, David Auburn (Proof), Harris Yulin, Gregory Jbara, Tony Walton, Josh Gladstone (John Drew Theater at Guild Hall), Yuval Sharon, Paulo Szot (Chicago), Kate Mueth (Neo-Political Cowgirls & League of Professional Theater Women), Robert Wilson, Jenny Schlenzka (Performance Space New York), Bay Street Theater, Tal Hever-Chybowski (Maison de la Culture Yiddish), Vallejo Gantner (Onassis Cultural Center), Daniel Fish, Georgina Kakoudaki (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Epidaurus Lyceum), Avra Sidiropoulou (Persona Theatre Company), among others
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DANCE
Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pilobolus Dance Company & Five Senses Festival, Harvard Dance Center, Jill Johnson (Ballet Frankfurt, The Forsythe Company), Mario Alberto Zambrano (Juilliard Dance), Peter Boal, Noelani Pantastico, Dimitris Papaioannou Choreography (Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games), Itamar Kubovy, Jonah Bokaer Choreography & The Hudson Eye,Ryan Heffington (Tick...Tick…Boom!) Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, Trish Sie (Pitch Perfect 3), Emily Kent, Seán Curran (NYU Tisch School of the Arts), among others
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MUSIC
Nile Rodgers (Songwriters Hall of Fame), Carter Burwell, David Byrne’s American Utopia, John Powell, Edmar Castaneda, Kovacs, Marcelo Zarvos, Paulo Szot (Chicago, South Pacific), Nano Stern, Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, Merck Mercuriadis (Hipgnosis Songs Fund),François Clemmons (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Harlem Spiritual Ensemble), Rick Carnes (Songwriters Guild of America), J. A. Henry, Carolyn Waters Broe (Four Seasons Orchestra), Yuval Sharon, Aaron P. Dworkin (Sphinx Organization), Lorenda Ramou (Onassis Cultural Center), Terry Radigan, Julian Fleisher, Robert Dick, Pepe Mogt, Ramón Amezcua (Bostich/Nortec Collective), Nikolas Anadolis, Cynthia Daniels, among others
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PHILOSOPHY, CRITICAL THINKING, EDUCATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SPIRITUALITY... Peter Singer, Richard D. Wolff (Democracy at Work), Donald Robertson (Plato’s Academy), Anantha Duraiappah (UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development), Daniel Gutzmann, Dr. Eben Alexander, Stuart Umpleby (American Society of Cybernetics) Peter McLaren, David Palumbo-Liu, Robert Axelrod, Yves Winkin, Mitch Horowitz, Elizabeth Karcher (President Woodrow Wilson House), Paul Levinson, Agnes Moors, David E. Nye, Ben Pring (Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work), Ann Hiatt, Marcia Scheiner (Autism Employment Advisors), Jessa Reed, Gabrielle Hamilton, Gaurav Gupta (Kotter International), Master Shi Heng Yi (Shaolin Temple Europe), among others

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Each interview is supported by imaginative portraits and artworks by Mia Funk.

Staying Creative Through 2023+

To Be Voiceless is to be Powerless We are committed to the core values of equality, diversity, and inclusion for all. We are driven by collaboration and equal opportunity and continue with this ethos as we grow.

Our remote mentoring continues, allowing students to expand their knowledge and adapt to the changing world around them.

With the participation of 100+ universities and numerous museums, libraries, and schools, The Creative Process could not be the international educational initiative it is today without remote collaboration.

International Voices - Exhibitions are augmented with projection elements by contributors from over 70 countries...+

The Creative Process brings together voices from diverse backgrounds and geographies with a selection of interviews, stories, poems, creative works, personal narratives, essays, short films and dance. Participants include Dimitra Kotoula, Theo Chiotis, Panayotis Ioannidis, Lorenda Ramou, Eleni Nomikou (Museum Herakleidon), Kiriakos Spirou, Panayiotis Pantazis, Dr. Patricia Kyprianidou (Secretary General for Research and Technology), Katerina Iliopoulou, Theodossis Tassios, Yiannis Isidorou, Mats Hjelm, Yannis Palavos, Hajar Bali, Adra Sidiropoulou, Zacharias Mavroeidis, Angeliki Spiropoulou, Tami Bezaleli, Pina Piccolo, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Lava Darwesh, Ramsha Ashraf, Ghada Al-absy, Audrey Chin, Santiago Giralt, Okky Madasari, Tendai Msimang, Kim Doyoon, Esther Dishereit, Shailja Patel, Philippe Micheau Ruiz, Yumiko Ono, Gloria Pacis, Igiaba Scego, Gimba Kakanda, Fatena Alghorra, Kristen Sendon Cordero, Harriet Diamond, Farah Soltani, Pasqualino Bongiovanni, Amira Al-Sharif, Dao Strom, Joharry Ravaloson, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Myloan Dinh, Tuan Phan, Adrienne Minh-Chau Le, Trinh Mai, Bao Nguyen, Marie Larrivé, Lucas Malbrun, Anita Barrows, Takako Hirano, Lucas Ribeyron, Hura Mirshekari, Silvana Colella, Giuseppe Nibali, Dilman Dila, Nino Sarabutra, Paul Baert, Ashraf Fayad, Olivier Marin & uNopia, Nesa Gschwend, Vladimir Martinovski, Muang Day, Bronka Nowicka, Antonia Lima, Joanna Bator, Piotr Mikucki, Robert McLiam Wilson, Marcin Malatyñski, José Manuel Díaz Martin, Perihan Incegöz, Ana María Manzanas Calvo, Jane Ohlmeyer, Marc de Faoite, Robert Nicholson, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Juan Gugger, Jésus Benito Sánchez, Piotr Ryczko, Henryk Kwiatek, Anne Kennedy, José Manuel Cardona, Jeremy Dennis, Christin Berg, Maud Baignères, Sanami Kakutani, Nicolas Floc’h, Antoni Miralda, Nirveda Alleck, Pablo Gershanik, Rita Alaouin, Claudia Arozqueta, Angie Chau, Aimee Phan, Tal Engelstein, Anton Bonnici, Emile Martel, Kai Simon Stoeger, Kaori Fujino, Maya Schweizer, Julio Monteiro Martins, Bilyana Furnadzhieva & Viktor Benev (Crystal Sound Project), Neil van der Linden, Loeritha Saayman, Paola Trimarco, William Benton, Enza Garcia Arraeza, Hélène Cardona, Gudrun Lerchbaum, Ellen Dunne, Catherine McNamara, Joe Wilson, Chanelle Collier, Emmanuel Wüthrich, Liza Shtormit, Jaga Jankowska Cappigny, Katja Bohnet, Lone Mørch, Eerika Pynnönen, Panashe Chigumadzi, Flora Noémie, Dahlia Baeshen, Stacey Tran, Elaine Chiew, Eva Wong Nava, Sandra Arnold, Julie Thi Underhill, Nasa Bo-Rane, Tim Holm, Andrea Racciatti, Paton Miller, Camille Juthier, Mary Ellen Bartley, Monica Banks, Anna Labouze, Keimis Henni, and other artists from Algeria, Australia, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guadalupe, Indonesia, India, Iran, Ireland, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Italy, Kenya, Japan, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Celebrating the Invisible Arts We celebrate dedicated teachers, curators, editors, translators, producers, librarians, artistic directors...who work tirelessly behind the scenes and are not acknowledged enough for their exceptional contributions to the social fabric of our culture.

Participating universities, institutions, and publications · The Creative Process could not be the constantly evolving traveling exhibition that it is without regional team members and participating students and faculty from...+

Sorbonne, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, University of Edinburgh, University of Milan, MIT, University of Toronto, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, University of Salamanca, Trinity College Dublin, UCLA, Brown University, McGill University, University of Hong Kong, University of Washington, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, American Writers Museum, Barnard College, Dublin Writers Museum, University of Iowa, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, University of Warsaw, Stony Brook University, The Jewish Museum, Rice University, George Washington University, University of Peloponnese, National Museum of Modern Art, Saint Louis University, DePaul, The Athens & Epidaurus Festival, University of Melbourne, Tulane University, Maison de la culture yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem, Athens Conservatoire, Łódź Film School, University of Chicago, Boston University, University of South Carolina, American University - Washington, D.C., Guild Hall of East Hampton, Institut Suédois, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, The Museum at FIT-Fashion Institute of Technology, Cité internationale des arts, Indiana University, Fordham College, Pitzer/Claremont Colleges, University of Leuven, University of Athens, FIAC, Antioch College, University of Michigan, University of British Columbia, Michigan State University, Tel Aviv University, among others. Special thanks to our associate podcast producers and collaborating curators who help make exhibitions comprehensive and a true celebration of their university and region.

Some of the participating magazines: Tin House, The Iowa Review, LA Review of Books, AGNI, Stanford Daily, Penn Review, Nassau Literary Review, The Literary Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Euphony Journal, The Rice Review, The Chicago Maroon, New American Writing, The VEG Magazine, Columbia Journal, Washington Square Review, Antithesis Journal, PRISM international, Notre Dame Review, La macchina sognante/The Dreaming Machine, HOME Magazine, VIM Magazine, SHEI Magazine, Versal (Netherlands), Ninth Letter, Going Down Swinging(Australia), Echolocation, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spittoon Literary Magazine & Arts Collective (Beijing), New Flash Fiction Review, among others.