Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon is a free, five-hour series of interviews with artists, authors, architects, and others representing Chicago’s diverse creative community, presented by Chicago Humanities Festival.

Led by Hans Ulrich Obrist—artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and one of the world’s leading art curators and critics, known for his long-form, dynamic interview marathons—Creative Chicago is Obrist’s first U.S. marathon, and takes a multi-dimensional, multidisciplinary look at creativity in the city, past, present and future, and the forces that have and continue to make Chicago a creative powerhouse.

ACT ONE | PROLOGUE | 1:00PM

Tim Samuelson on the history of the ballroom in Chicago

Eve L. Ewing on the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

ACT TWO | FOUNDATIONS | 1:30PM

Joseph Grigely on the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive

Art Green, Gerald Williams, and Suellen Rocca

Stanley Tigerman and Richard Hunt

Buritt Bulloch aka Mr. B, the Donut King

ACT THREE | BUILDING | 3:00PM

Jeanne Gang and Barbara Kasten

Fatimah Asghar and Edra Soto

Louise Bernard and Theaster Gates

Dawoud Bey

ACT FOUR | VANGUARD | 4:30PM

Eddie Bocanegra and Shani Crowe

Eula Biss and Amanda Williams

Brandon Breaux and Cauleen Smith

Creative Chicago is presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival, in partnership with EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier, and Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

The event, featuring 20 artists, architects, authors, and representatives from the city, will take place on Sept. 29 at Navy Pier.

Creative Chicago is free and open to the public.