2025 Artist Residency Jury Panel

Amy Sadao

Amy Sadao is an independent curator and consultant focused on the strategic development of contemporary art and community-based organizations. With Susette Min, she is organizing a two-season exhibition project for the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis on abolishing the category of Asian American art (2025-26.) She served as the Interim Director of Denniston Hill, a queer, POC-led artist-led residency and platform for experimentation. Prior to that she was the Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. From 2002-2012 Amy served as Executive Director of Visual AIDS in New York City. 

She is dedicated to making nonprofit working cultures sustainable and to operationalizing power-sharing and equity. She is currently working towards ICF-certification as a coach and continues to train in restorative justice processes with an emphasis on conflict-resolution, preserving long-term relationships across difference, and maintaining principled disagreement. She is the co-chair of Leeway Foundation, supporting Philadelphia area women and trans artists engaged in social change art, a member of the Advisory Circle of Denniston Hill, and a Director Emeritus of Visual AIDS. She lives in Providence, RI and Philadelphia, PA.

Paper Buck

Paper Buck is an interdisciplinary visual artist, printmaker, and writer. His recent work is focused on place-centered research that critically explores white settler constructions of conservation, ecology, and the "American Landscape."

Paper received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art and American Studies from Macalester College in 2008. His practice is informed by a background in community organizing that centers anti-racist education, decolonial movements, and transgender justice. He was formerly a leadership team member at the Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, Unsettling Minnesota and the Catalyst Project. Paper was the former Printmaking Studio Manager at Kala Art Institute. He publishes a collaborative artist newletter, Tree News, with the artist Erin Mallea.

Recent exhibitions include; Process LAB, Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Form and Formless, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York; Cornucopia, Eastern Star Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Counterpressures, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; State of Nature, Chautauqua Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY; The Self, Realized: Queering the Art of Self-Portraiture, Brew House Association, Pittsburgh, PA; It's A Long Story I'll Save For Later, The Powder Room, Pittsburgh, PA; Today Descends From Yesterday, Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA; History in the Present, Historisches Rathaus 
Dringenberg, Germany; Queer Prophesies, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA. He lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

James Mauerlle

James Maurelle is an interdisciplinary artist, sculpture, video, photography, and sound art are his analog and digital primes. His work investigates the correlation formed between labor and creativity, at the center of this byway is the spirit of his work. He’s a newly appointed assistant professor at Clark University, he works and resides in Worcester Massachusetts. His work has shown in New York, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Austin, Philadelphia, Brussels, Cincinnati, Worcester, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He is a Pew Fellow (2022) and a recipient of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship (2015).