2026 Artist Residency Jury Panel

Kristen Neville Taylor

Kristen Neville Taylor is an Philadelphia artist whose diverse practice combines drawing, sculpture, and glass which converge playfully in installation style environments. Her work considers the impact of the stories we tell about nature calling attention to the systems and events that establish definitions and shape public perception of the environment. Taylor’s work has been shown at Vox Populi, the Woodmere Art Museum and the Philadelphia Art Alliance (Philadelphia), Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland), Richard Stockton and Rowan University Art Galleries (New Jersey), and Expo Chicago. She has organized several exhibitions including Landscape Techne at Little Berlin, The Usable Earth at the Esther Klein Gallery, and she co-curated Middle of Nowhere in the Pine Barrens. In 2019, she co-founded The Green Sun, a multifaceted project focused on the intersection of art and policy as they relate to the history of energy, energy democracy and possible energy futures. Taylor is the recipient of the Pew Fellowship, Laurie Wagman Prize in Glass, a RAIR Recycled Artist-in-Residence, and a Penn Program for the Environmental Humanities Artist-in-Residence. In 2024, she was awarded the NJ Coastal Management Community-Based Art Grant and will hold an exhibition at Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center in the Fall of 2025.

Anne Ishii

Anne Ishii is the program director at United States Artists, and until the summer of 2024, executive director of Asian Arts Initiative. She is the co-chair of National Performance Network and of the Asian American Writers Workshop. Anne is a writer and musician. As a percussionist, she performs in many arrangements, including the trio Totally Automatic. She is a writer and editor by trade with a background in Japanese letters. Her work hinges on issues relating to gender and sexuality. In 2013 she co-founded MASSIVE GOODS: a lifestyle brand and arts agency representing queer erotica and feminist artists from Japan. MASSIVE has produced multiple volumes of graphic novels and a line of clothing and accessories. She has been published in BUST, Nylon, Slate, Publishers Weekly, the Village Voice, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many others. She has translated and rewritten over twenty books.

Sunanda Ghosh

Sunanda Ghosh is the Associate Executive Director of the Forman Arts Initiative. For the past 25 years she has supported national and international nonprofits, from grassroots organizations focused on community organizing to large institutions working on capital campaigns. Her work focuses on leadership development, strategic planning, capacity building, and fundraising strategy. She has worked with dozens of organizations, including the Native Organizers Alliance, Human Rights Watch, the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Denniston Hill, American Friends Service Committee, Drexel University, Asian Arts Initiative, KALW, Artists for Humanity, Philadelphia Contemporary, Recess Art, and Kensington-based Impact Services. She helped design an arts incubator program for the state of Delaware that supports arts organizations throughout the state, and was a part of the Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant making program which distributed six million dollars to people of color led arts organizations across the city. Sunanda is a board member of BlackStar Projects, The Philly Download, and Skateistan. She is based in Philadelphia and has worked in India, South Africa, and Brazil, and speaks fluent Bengali.