Featuring interviews with a dozen fellows of the MacArthur Foundation and the American Academy in Rome from across several domains of creativity, the documentary film Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities highlights their use and thinking around the instrumentalization of intellectual inquiry. 

A panel discussion with the artist Mary Reid Kelley (2012 Fellow), the Stanford physicist Hideo Mabuchi, AAR President Peter N. Miller, and MIT professor and former AAR Director John Ochsendorf (2008 Fellow) will follow immediately after the screening.

Additional public screenings will be held at Stanford University in California on November 6, and in Rome (date TBD). Each event has the same format: a presentation of the short version of the film followed by a Q&A with invited speakers.

This film is made possible by the MacArthur X-Grant Program with support from the American Academy in Rome and the Stanford Arts Institute.

This program is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound.org.

This event is free and open to the public. Please register to attend in person. You will receive an email confirmation.