Steve Cuiffo (actor/magician), Trey Lyford  (actor/theater director), Geoff Sobelle (actor/theater director)

Accra Shepp (photographer) with Edward Fausty (printmaker)

Stephen Wangh (writer/director) with Kristin Dombek (writer/dramaturg)

Christine Jones (set designer) with Steve Cuiffo (actor/magician)

Jonathon Appels (choreographer) with David LaMarche (conductor)

Maria Tucci (actress) with Allegra Kent (ballerina)

Toni Morrison (novelist) with Greg Drasler (painter)

Daron Aric Hagen (composer) with Paul Muldoon (poet)

Mariana Sadovska (vocalist) with Roger Babb (theater director) and Lars Jan (video artist)

Mendi and Keith Obadike (multi-media artists)

Maria Tucci (actress) with Allegra Kent (ballerina)

Nancy Manter (painter) with Ben Shedd (IMAX film director)

Paul Binnerts (theater director) with Christine Jones (set designer)

Rinde Eckert (performance artist) with Steve Mackey (guitarist/composer)

Richard Price (novelist/screenwriter) with Roger Babb (theater director)

Richard Danielpour (composer)  with Toni Morrison (librettist)

Anonymous 4 (a capella vocal group)

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick (photographers/painters)

Yusef Komunyakaa (poet) with William Banfield (composer)

Irina Nakhova (installation artist) with guest painters and installation artists

Evelyn Glennie (percussionist) with Stewart Wallace (composer) and guest percussionists

Alicia Ostriker (poet) with Susana Tubert (theater director)

Anonymous 4 (a cappella vocal group) with Peter Jeffery (medieval musicologist)

Paul Muldoon (poet) with Daron Aric Hagen (composer)

Andrea Modica (photographer) with gallery directors, magazine photo editors, critics and photo journalists

John Selya (dancer/choreographer) with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Michael Kaiser (Executive Director of ABT)

Martine van Hamel (choreographer) with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company

Gabriel García Márquez (novelist) with Toni Morrison (novelist)

Joyce Carol Oates (fiction writer) with Susana Tubert (theater director)

Louis Massiah (documentary filmmaker) with Charlene Gilbert (documentary filmmaker) and Carlton Jones (cinematographer)

Bernice Johnson Reagon (founder and member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, singer/songwriter) with Toshi Reagon (singer/songwriter)

Yo-Yo Ma (cellist) with Richard Danielpour (composer), Toni Morrison (lyricist) and Edgar Meyer (bassist)

Peter Sellars (theater/opera director) with Carma Hinton (documentary filmmaker) and Madame Hua Wen-Yi (performer, Bejing opera)

Jacques d’Amboise (choreographer) with A. S. Byatt (novelist)