Art + Design Speakers

Expert artists and designers across various mediums, these author speakers share their creative processes, inspiration, and techniques with audiences in art industries and beyond.

Sara Hendren

Design researcher, Harvard Medical School Bioethics Fellow, and author of What Can A Body Do?

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine

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Ed Catmull

Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity, Inc.

Vinson Cunningham

Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer and theatre critic at The New Yorker, author

Valerie June

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Lachi

Award-winning executive, globally touring recording artist, author, and TV host

Huey Lewis

Songwriter, actor, and lead singer for Huey Lewis and the News

Amanda Lucidon

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Ian Manuel

Advocate for criminal justice reform, poet, and motivational speaker

Chanel Miller

Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name

Jenny Odell

New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

David Owen

The New Yorker staff writer and author of Green Metropolis and Volume Control

Tourmaline

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, author of Marsha

Jeff Tweedy

Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman of Wilco

Alice Waters

Chef, author, activist, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard Project
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau