Shawn P. Healy—Museum Resident Scholar, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
Dave Anderson—Executive Director, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
William Rattner —Executive Director, Lawyers For the Creative Arts; Adjunct
Professor, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia College,
Chicago
James Yood—Art Critic; Adjunct Professor, School of the Art institute of Chicago

The new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum on Michigan Avenue in Chicago opens on April 11, 2006. The museum considers the various meanings of freedom—both as a concept and as a right granted by the U.S. Constitution. Why is the First Amendment so important to the general public, and specifically applicable to the work of artists?