Panelists

 

2024 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Erin Besler
  Principal at Besler & Sons and Assistant Professor
  Princeton University School of Architecture
  Hopewell, NJ
  2020 USA Fellow
• Julia Gamolina
  Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Madame Architect + Associate Principal at Ennead Architects
  New York, NY
  
• Monica Obniski
  Curator of Decorative Arts and Design
  High Museum of Art
  Atlanta, GA
  

• Craft

• Ashley Page
  Studio and Programs Coordinator
  Indigo Arts Alliance
  Portland, ME
  
• Charlotte Potter Kasic
  Executive Director
  Barry Art Museum
  Norfolk, VA
  
• Anna Walker
  Executive Director
  Lawndale Art & Performance Center
  Houston, TX
  

• Dance

• Chloe Jones
  Executive Director and Assistant Dean
  Art & Creative Engagement (at UtahPresents/University of Utah)
  Salt Lake City, UT
  
• Tonya Lockyer
  Multidisciplinary Artist, Arts Strategist and Writer
  Suquamish, WA
  
• Yara Travieso
  Director & Choreographer
  Brooklyn, NY
  2019 USA Fellow

• Film

• Pablo de Ocampo
  Director and Curator of Moving Image
  Walker Art Center
  Minneapolis, MN
  
• Ianeta Le'i
  CEO at Kaioe Consulting and Senior Manager
  Sundance Institute Indigenous Program
  CA/UT
  
• Jenny Miller
  Co-Artistic Director
  UNIONDOCS, Center for Documentary Art
  Brooklyn, NY
  

• Media

• Stephanie Dinkins
  Artist & Kusama Endowed Professor of Art
  Stony Brook University
  Brooklyn, NY
  2021 USA Fellow
• Ceci Moss
  Director of the Mandeville Art Gallery (MAG) and Professor of Practice
  UC San Diego
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Victoria Vesna
  Professor and Director
  UCLA Art Sci Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Music

• Argeo Ascani
  Programmer, Music and Festivals
  The Momentary
  Bentonville, AR
  
• Tunde Olaniran
  Founder/Owner
  Magic Wheel Creative
  Flint, MI
  2019 USA Fellow
• Vanessa Rose
  Executive Director
  American Composers Forum
  Minneapolis, MN
  

• Theater & Performance

• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  Writer and Professor
  Brooklyn, NY
  2020 USA Fellow
• Kelly Kerwin
  Artistic Director
  Oklahoma City Repertory Theater
  Oklahoma City, OK
  
• Tony Santiago
  Theater and Performance Programs Manager
  Arts + Public Life
  Chicago, IL
  

• Traditional Arts

• Carolyn L. Mazloomi
  Independent Curator, Artist and Author
  West Chester, OH
  2021 USA Fellow
• Kathleen Mundell
  Director
  Cultural Resources
  Camden, ME
  
• Jessica Turner
  Executive Director
  American Folklore Society
  Bloomington, IN
  

• Visual Art

• Kanitra Fletcher
  Associate Curator
  National Gallery of Art
  Washington, DC
  
• Andrea Hanley
  Chief Curator
  Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
  Santa Fe, NM
  
• Daisy Nam
  Executive Director and Curator
  Ballroom Marfa
  Marfa, TX
  

• Writing

• Lesley Arimah
  Fiction Writer
  Las Vegas, NV
  2019
• Diana Marie Delgado
  Poet and Literary Director
  UA Poetry Center
  Tucson, AZ
  
• Meredith Talusan
  Author and Editor
  Barryville, NY
  

2023 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Ian Besler
  Partner
  Besler and Sons, LLC
  Princeton, NJ
  2020 USA Fellow
• Irene Sunwoo
  John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design
  Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Bucky Willis
  Founder and Director
  Bleeding Heart Design
  Detroit, MI
  

• Craft

• Danielle Andress
  Assistant Professor, Fiber and Materials Studies
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Jennifer Ling Datchuk
  Artist and Assistant Professor of Studio Art
  Texas State University
  San Antonio, TX
  2020 USA Fellow
• Susie J. Silbert
  Curator of Postwar and Contemporary Glass
  Corning Museum of Glass
  Corning, NY
  

• Dance

• Alejandra Duque Cifuentes
  Executive Director
  Dance/NYC
  New York, NY
  
• Iquail Shaheed
  Executive Artistic Director
  Dance Iquail!
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Michèle Steinwald
  Independent Curator/Producer
  Haudenosaunee Territory
  

• Film

• Angela C. Lee
  Associate Director of Artist Development
  Film Independent
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Christy LeMaster
  Artistic Director
  Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival
  Baltimore, MD
  
• Kristal Sotomayor
  Awards Competition Manager for the International Documentary Association and
  Programming Director of the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival
  Philadelphia, PA
  

• Media

• Julia Kaganskiy
  Independent Curator and Cultural Strategist
  New York, NY
  
• Tommy Martinez
  Artist
  New York, NY
  
• Jill Miller
  Founding Director, Platform Artspace and
  Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice and Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California - Berkeley
  Berkeley, CA
  

• Music

• Alex Knowlton
  Director
  Joe's Pub
  New York, NY
  
• Helado Negro
  Musician
  Asheville, NC
  2019 USA Fellow
• Caitlin Strokosch
  President and CEO
  National Performance Network
  New Orleans, LA
  

• Theater & Performance

• Frances Ya-chu Cowhig
  Playwright
  Providence, RI
  
• Ashley Ferro-Murray
  Curator, Theater/Dance
  EMPAC/Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
  Mohican Land; Troy, NY
  
• Shanta Thake
  Chief Artistic Officer
  Lincoln Center
  New York, NY
  

• Traditional Arts

• Andrew Colwell, Ph.D.
  Project Director
  Center for Traditional Music and Dance
  New York, NY
  
• Teresa Hollingsworth
  Director, Film and Traditional Art
  SouthArts
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Reuben Roqueñi
  Director of Transformative Change Programs
  Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
  Portland, OR
  

• Visual Art

• Marcela Guerrero
  Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator
  Whitney Museum of American Art
  New York, NY
  
• Ryan N. Dennis
  Chief Curator and Artistic Director
  Center of Art and Public Exchange
  Jackson, MS
  
• Mari Robles
  Executive Director
  Headlands Center for the Arts
  San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  

• Writing

• Rebecca Gayle Howell
  Poetry Editor
  Oxford American
  Lexington, KY
  2019 USA Fellow
• Sara Ortiz
  Interim Literary Director / Founder, San Antonio Book Festival and
  Host, Black Mountain Radio
  Las Vegas, NV
  
• Nicole Terez Dutton
  Editor
  Kenyon Review
  Gambier, OH
  

2022 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Michelle Millar Fisher
  Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Providence, RI
  
• Carrie Norman
  Partner
  Norman Kelley
  New Orleans, LA
  2018 USA Fellow
• Ernesto Alfaro
  Planning Project Manager at LJA Engineering and
  Lecturer at Rice University
  Houston, TX
  

• Craft

• Jennifer-Navva Milliken
  Artistic Director
  Center for Art in Wood
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Andres Payan Estrada
  Curator of Public Engagement
  Craft Contemporary at Craft Contemporary
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Marilyn Zapf
  Assistant Director and Curator
  Center for Craft
  Asheville, NC
  

• Dance

• Rob Bailis
  Artistic and Executive Director
  The Broad Stage
  Santa Monica, CA
  
• Darrell Jones
  Performer, Educator, and Movement Researcher
  Chicago, IL
  
• Lauren Slone
  Director of Grants and Research
  MAP Fund
  Brooklyn, NY
  

• Film

• Adele Han Li
  Festival Manager
  Slamdance Film Festival
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Nehad Khader
  Festival Director
  BlackStar Projects
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Justine Nagan
  Executive Director/Executive Producer
  American Documentary/POV
  Oakland, CA
  

• Media

• Carlos “L05” Garcia
  Complex Movements
  Los Angeles, CA
  2019 USA Fellow
• Legacy Russell
  Associate Curator, Exhibitions
  The Studio Museum in Harlem
  New York, NY
  
• Sally Szwed
  Curator
  Brooklyn, NY
  

• Music

• Taja Cheek
  Associate Curator
  MoMA PS1
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Gene Dobbs Bradford
  President & CEO
  Jazz St. Louis
  St. Louis, MO
  
• Susie Ibarra
  Composer, Percussionist, and Sound Artist
  New Paltz, NY
  2019 USA Fellow

• Theater & Performance

• Lane Czaplinski
  Director of Performing Arts
  Wexner Center for the Arts
  Columbus, OH
  
• Carra Martinez
  Lecturer
  University of Texas, Austin
  Austin, TX
  
• Tavia Nyong'o
  Professor
  Yale University
  New Haven, CT
  

• Traditional Arts

• Maya Austin
  Director / Program Weaver
  First Peoples Fund
  Sacramento, CA
  
• Jennifer Joy Jameson
  Program Manager and Media Director
  Alliance for California Traditional Arts
  Pasadena, CA
  
• Selina Morales
  Independent Folklorist
  Philadelphia, PA
  

• Visual Art

• Betty Avila
  Executive Director
  Self Help Graphics
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Jessica S. Hong
  Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
  Toledo Museum of Art
  Toledo, OH
  
• Candice Hopkins
  Curator, Writer, and Researcher
  Albuquerque, NM
  

• Writing

• Rasha Abdulhadi
  Executive Director
  Split This Rock
  Washington, DC
  
• Allison Escoto
  Head Librarian at Center for Fiction
  Center for Fiction
  New York, NY
  
• Molly Kleiman
  Director
  Triple Canopy
  New York, NY
  

2021 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Thomas Kelley
  Architect
  Chicago, IL
  2018 USA Fellow
• Amanda Williams
  Public Artist
  Chicago, IL
  2018 USA Fellow
• Mimi Zeiger
  Critic and Curator
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Craft

• Mia Hall
  Executive Director
  Penland School of Craft
  Asheville, NC
  
• Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
  Assistant Curator
  Museum of Arts & Design
  New York, NY
  
• Fabio J. Fernández
  Professor
  Massachusetts College of Art and Design
  Boston, MA
  

• Dance

• Lili Chopra
  Executive Director of Artistic Programs
  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
  New York, NY
  
• d. Sabela grimes
  Dancer and Choreographer
  Los Angeles, CA
  2014 USA Fellow
• Tara Aisha Willis
  Associate Curator of Performance & Public Practice
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Film

• Shari Frilot
  Chief Curator of New Frontier
  Sundance Institute
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Elaine McMillion Sheldon
  Documentary Filmmaker
  Charleston, WV
  2018 USA Fellow
• Bryce Norbitz
  Director of Scripted Programing
  Tribeca Film Institute
  New York, NY
  

• Media

• Salome Asega
  Artist and Researcher
  New York, NY
  
• Carmen Aguilar y Wedge
  Designer
  London, UK
  2019 USA Fellow
• Zachary Kaplan
  Executive Director
  Rhizome
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Kate Dumbleton
  Executive and Artistic Director
  Hyde Park Jazz Festival
  Chicago, IL
  
• David Lang
  Composer
  New York, NY
  2015 USA Fellow
• Lourdes Perez
  Singer-Songwriter
  San Antonio, TX and Moca, Puerto Rico
  2006 USA Fellow

• Theater & Performance

• Hayley Finn
  Associate Artistic Director
  Playwrights’ Center
  Minneapolis, MN
  
• Malik Gaines
  Performance Artist
  New York, NY
  2018 USA Fellow
• Jocelyn Prince
  Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies
  Northwestern University
  Chicago, IL
  

• Traditional Arts

• Francene Blythe
  Director of Programs
  Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
  Vancouver, WA
  
• Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
  Director
  Illinois State Museum
  Springfield, IL
  
• Leia Maahs
  Managing Director
  Southwest Folklife Alliance
  Tucson, AZ
  

• Visual Art

• Wassan Al-Khudhairi
  Chief Curator
  Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
  St. Louis, MO
  
• Laura Mott
  Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design
  Cranbrook Art Museum
  Detroit, MI
  
• Lumi Tan
  Curator
  The Kitchen
  New York, NY
  

• Writing

• Brigid Hughes
  Editor
  A Public Space
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Don Share
  Editor
  POETRY Magazine
  Chicago, IL
  
• Jacqueline Woodson
  Novelist
  Brooklyn, NY
  

2020 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Jose Esparza Chong Cuy
  Executive Director
  Storefront for Art and Architecture
  New York, NY
  
• Monica Khemsurov
  Co-Founder
  Sight Unseen
  New York, NY
  
• Zoë Ryan
  John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture & Design
  The Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Craft

• Ayumi Horie
  Potter
  Portland, ME
  2015 USA Fellow
• Shannon Stratton
  Chief Curator
  Museum of Art and Design
  New York, NY
  
• Namita Gupta Wiggers
  Director, Master in Craft
  Warren Wilson College
  Portland, OR
  

• Dance

• Barbara Bryan
  Executive Director
  Movement Research
  New York, NY
  
• Faye Driscoll
  Dancer and Choreographer
  Brooklyn, NY
  2016 USA Fellow
• Jodee Nimerichter
  Executive Director
  American Dance Festival
  Durham, NC
  

• Film

• Deirdre Haj
  Director
  Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  Durham, NC
  
• Maori Holmes
  Founder
  Blackstar Film Festival
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Dee Rees
  Filmmaker
  New York, NY
  2011 USA Fellow

• Media

• Stephanie Pereira
  Director, NEW INC
  New Museum
  New York, NY
  
• Sydney Skybetter
  Choreographer & Founder
  Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces
  Providence, RI
  

• Music

• Mary Ellen Childs
  Composer and Multimedia Artist
  St. Paul, MN
  2011 USA Fellow
• Drew Klein
  Performing Arts Director
  Contemporary Arts Center
  Cincinnati, OH
  
• Mike Reed
  Drummer and Composer
  Chicago, IL
  2016 USA Fellow

• Theater & Performance

• Emilya Cachapero
  Director of Artistic Programs
  Theatre Communications Group
  New York, NY
  
• Megan Carney
  Founding Artistic Director
  About Face Theatre
  Chicago, IL
  
• Katherine Brewer Ball
  Assistant Professor of Performance Studies
  Wesleyan University
  Brooklyn, NY
  

• Traditional Arts

• Amy Kitchener
  Executive Director
  Alliance for California Traditional Arts
  Fresno, CA
  
• Sabrina Lynn Motley
  Festival Director and Associate Director
  Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  Washington, D.C.
  
• Patsy Phillips
  Director
  IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
  Santa Fe, NM
  

• Visual Art

• Hendrik Folkerts
  Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
  The Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Amy Sadao
  Director
  ICA Philadelphia
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Cara Starke
  Director
  Pulitzer Foundation
  St. Louis, MO
  

• Writing

• Glory Edim
  Founder
  Well-Read Black Girl
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Lisa Lucas
  Executive Director
  National Book Foundation
  New York, NY
  
• Achy Obejas
  Fiction Writer, Journalist, and Poet
  Oakland, CA
  2014 USA Fellow

2019 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
  Editor-in-Chief
  Miami Rail
  Miami, FL
  
• Sarah Herda
  Executive Director
  Graham Foundation
  Chicago, IL
  
• Nader Tehrani
  Dean/Principle
  Cooper Union/NADAAA
  Boston, MA
  2007 USA Fellow

• Craft

• Joan Livingstone
  Senior Faculty, Fiber and Material Studies
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Roberto Lugo
  Professor of Ceramics
  Tyler School of Art, Temple University
  Philadelphia, PA
  2016 USA Fellow

• Dance

• Glenn Edgerton
  Artistic Director
  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Rosie Herrera
  Artistic Director
  Rosie Herrera Dance Theater
  Miami, FL
  2016 USA Fellow
• Liz Lerman
  Institute Professor
  Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
  Tempe/Phoenix, AZ
  2011 USA Fellow

• Film

• Rhea Combs
  Curator of Film & Photography
  National Museum of African American History and Culture
  Washington, DC
  
• Mimi Plauché
  Artistic Director
  Chicago International Film Festival
  Chicago, IL
  
• Ryan White
  Filmmaker
  Los Angeles, CA
  2014 USA Fellow

• Media

• Tyler Greene
  Live Events Producer/Artistic Director
  WBEZ/Chicago Podcast Festival
  Chicago, IL
  
• Sarah Hromack
  Chief Culture Officer
  Kickstarter
  New York, NY
  
• Roderick Schrock
  Director
  Eyebeam
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Jason King
  Associate Professor and Academic Director of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
  New York University
  New York, NY
  
• Eddy Kwon
  Director
  MYCincinnati
  Cincinnati, OH
  2016 USA Fellow
• Phil Rosenthal
  Director of Programming
  The Long Center
  Austin, TX
  

• Theater & Performance

• Erin Boberg Doughton
  Artistic Director & Curator of Performance
  Time-Based Festival: PICA
  Portland, OR
  
• Jacob Padrón
  Founder & Artistic Director
  The Sol Project
  New York, NY
  
• Tanya Palmer
  Producer/Director of New Play Development
  The Goodman Theatre
  Chicago, IL
  

• Traditional Arts

• Da-ka-xeen Mehner
  Director
  University of Alaska Fairbanks Native Arts Center
  Fairbanks, AK
  2015 USA Fellow
• Mateo Melcahy
  Director of Community Projects and Events
  The Old Town School of Folk Music
  Chicago, IL
  
• Jennifer Heller Zurick
  Artist
  Berea, KY
  2010 USA Fellow

• Visual Art

• Johanna Burton
  Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs
  The New Museum
  New York, NY
  
• Julie Rodrigues Widholm
  Director and Chief Curator
  DePaul Art Museum
  Chicago, IL
  
• Hamza Walker
  Executive Director
  LAXART
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Meg Onli
  Assistant Curator
  Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• María Elena Ortiz
  Associate Curator
  The Perez Art Museum Miami
  Miami, FL
  
• Charlie Tatum
  Editorial and Communications Manager
  Pelican Bomb
  New Orlean, LA
  
• Gibran Villalobos
  Partnerships and Engagement Program Liaison
  MCA Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Gee Wesley
  Program Director
  Recess
  New York, NY
  
• Sarah Williams
  Managing Director
  Women's Center for Creative Work
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Writing

• Chris Abani
  Professor of English
  Northwestern University
  Chicago, IL
  2014 USA Fellow
• Abigail Wadsworth Serfass
  Managing Editor
  Kenyon Review
  Gambier, OH
  
• Angel Ysaguirre
  Executive Director
  Illinois Humanities Council
  Chicago, IL
  

2018 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Sarah Herda
  Executive Director
  Graham Foundation
  Chicago, IL
  
• Natasha Jen
  Partner
  Pentagram
  New York, NY
  
• Andrew Zago
  Partner & Founder
  Zago Architecture
  Los Angeles, CA
  2008 USA Fellow

• Craft

• Josh Green
  Executive Director
  National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
  Boulder, CO
  
• Beth Lipman
  Contemporary Artist
  Sheboygan Falls, WI
  2011 USA Fellow
• Carol Sauvion
  Executive Director
  Craft in America
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Dance

• Nora Chipaumire
  Choreographer
  New York, NY
  2011 USA Fellow
• Simone Eccleston
  Director of Hip-Hop Culture
  The Kennedy Center
  Washington, DC
  
• Ginger Farley
  Executive Director
  Chicago Dancemakers Forum
  Chicago, IL
  

• Media

• Peter Nicks
  Filmmaker
  Oakland, CA
  2015 USA Fellow
• Opeyemi Olukemi
  Vice-President, Digital Production and Innovation
  American Documentary, POV
  New York, NY
  
• Jenna Weiss-Berman
  Founder
  Pineapple Street Media
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Ted Gioia
  Musician & Author
  Plano, TX
  
• Rudresh Mahanthappa
  Musician
  Montclair, NJ
  2015 USA Fellow
• Rosita Sands
  Department Chair, Music
  Columbia College
  Chicago, IL
  

• Theater & Performance

• Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
  Professor of Performance Studies
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  
• Anthony Garcia
  Executive Artistic Director
  Su Teatro
  Denver, CO
  2006 USA Fellow
• Jackie Sibblies Drury
  Playwright
  Brooklyn, NY
  2015 USA Fellow

• Traditional Arts

• Nicolasa Chávez
  Curator of Latino, Hispano, Spanish, and Colonial Collections
  Museum of International Folk Art
  Santa Fe, NM
  
• Matt Meacham
  Program Manager
  Illinois Humanities Council
  Chicago, IL
  
• Megha Ralapati
  Residency and Special Projects Manager
  Hyde Park Art Center
  Chicago, IL
  

• Visual Art

• Brooke Davis Anderson
  Museum Director
  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Lauren Haynes
  Curator of Contemporary Art
  Crystal Bridges Museum
  Bentonville, AR
  
• LaToya Ruby Frazier
  Professor of Photography, Artist
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  2014 USA Fellow

• Writing

• Chris Abani
  Professor of English
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  2014 USA Fellow
• Natalie Diáz
  Poet
  Mohave Valley, AZ
  2014 USA Fellow
• Allison Sansone
  Program Director
  The American Writers Museum
  Chicago, IL
  

2016 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Beatrice Galilee
  Curator, Writer, and Critic
  Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture & Design, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  New York, NY
  
• John Ronan
  Principal
  John Ronan Architects
  Chicago, IL
  
• Doris Sung
  Assistant Professor
  University of Southern California School of Architects
  Rolling Hills, CA
  2014 USA Fellow

• Craft

• Liz Collins
  Artist & Designer
  Brooklyn, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Bruce Pepich
  Executive Director & Curator
  Racine Art Museum
  Racine, WI
  
• Arline Fisch
  Artist & Designer
  San Diego, CA
  2006 USA Fellow
• Kurt Sundstrom
  Curator
  Currier Museum of Art
  Concord, NH
  

• Dance

• Alejandro Cerrudo
  Choreographer
  Chicago, IL
  2014 USA Fellow
• Bebe Miller
  Choreographer
  Columbus, OH
  2010 USA Fellow
• Rachel Moore
  President & CEO
  Los Angeles Music Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Media

• Ryan Oestreich
  General Manager
  Music Box Theater
  Chicago, IL
  
• Opeyemi Olukemi
  Senior Director
  Interactive Programs at Tribeca Film Institute
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Yowei Shaw
  Producer
  Washington, DC
  2014 USA Fellow

• Music

• John Corbett
  Founder
  Corbett vs. Dempsey
  Chicago, IL
  
• Fredara Hadley
  Assistant Professor
  Ethnomusicology at Oberlin College & Conservatory
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Michael Tiknis
  President and Managing Director
  Harris Theater for Music and Dance
  Chicago, IL
  

• Theater & Performance

• Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
  Assistant Professor
  Performance Studies at Northwestern University
  Chicago, IL
  
• Sigrid Gilmer
  Playwright
  Los Angeles, CA
  2014 USA Fellow
• Annie-B. Parson
  Artistic Director
  Big Dance Theater
  Brooklyn, NY
  2012 USA Fellow

• Traditional Arts

• Bonnie Brooks
  Associate Professor & Director
  The Dance Center at Columbia College
  Chicago, IL
  
• Joshua Green
  Executive Director
  the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
  Pittsburgh, PA
  
• Karen Patterson
  Curator
  John Michael Kohler Arts Center
  Sheboygan, WI
  
• Teri Rofkar
  Weaver
  Sitka, AK
  2006 USA Fellow

• Visual Art

• Naomi Beckwith
  Curator
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Deanna Dikeman
  Photographer
  Columbia, MO
  2008 USA Fellow
• René Morales
  Curator
  Pérez Art Museum Miami
  Miami, FL
  

• Writing

• Michael Awkward
  Professor, Afro-American Literature & Culture
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, MI
  
• Natalie Diaz
  Poet
  Phoenix, AZ
  2014 USA Fellow
• Robert P. Marzac
  English Professor
  Purdue University
  Lafayette, IN
  
• Ellen Placey Wadey
  Program Officer
  Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
  Chicago, IL
  

2015 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Stephen Burks
  Founder & Principal
  Stephen Burks Man Made
  New York, NY
  2008 USA Fellow
• David van der Leer
  Executive Director
  Van Alen Institute
  New York, NY
  
• Amanda Williams
  Architecture Professor
  Illinois Institute of Technology
  Chicago, IL
  2018 USA Fellow

• Craft

• Beth Lipman
  Sculptor
  Sheboygan Falls, WI
  2011 USA Fellow
• Namita Gupta Wiggers
  Curator & Founder
  Critical Craft Forum
  Portland, OR
  

• Dance

• Lane Alexander
  Co-Founder & Artistic Director
  Chicago Human Rhythm Project
  Chicago, IL
  
• Rennie Harris
  Dancer, Choreographer, & Founder
  Rennie Harris Puremovement
  Philadelphia, PA
  2007 USA Fellow
• Maura Keefe
  Chair of the Department of Dance
  College at Brockport
  Brockport, NY
  

• Media

• Sandi DuBowski
  Director & Producer
  US Director of Good Pitch
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Barrett Golding
  Audio & Web Producer
  Bozeman, MT
  2010 USA Fellow
• Laura Kipnis
  Professor
  School of Communication, Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  
• Justine Nagan
  Executive Director
  American Documentary Inc.
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Mary Ellen Childs
  Composer & Founder
  Crash
  Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
  2011 USA Fellow
• Ted Gioia
  Musician & Author
  Plano, TX
  
• Marcy Morgan
  Executive Director
  Harvard Hip-Hop Archive & Research Institute
  Cambridge, MA
  
• Michael Tiknis
  President & Managing Director
  Harris Theater for Music and Dance
  Chicago, IL
  

• Theater & Performance

• Adrienne Edwards
  Curator
  Performa
  New York, NY
  
• Will Power
  Playwright
  Dallas, TX
  2008 USA Fellow
• Blair Thomas
  Founder & Artistic Director
  Blair Thomas & Company Puppet Theater
  Chicago, IL
  

• Traditional Arts

• Nicholas Galanin
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  Sitka, AK
  2012 USA Fellow
• Ellen Koskoff
  Professor of Ethnomusicology
  Eastman School of Music
  Rochester, NY
  
• Karen Patterson
  Curator
  John Michael Kohler Arts Center
  Sheboygan, WI
  

• Visual Art

• Huey Gene Copeland
  Associate Professor of Art History
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  
• Agnes Gund
  President Emerita
  Museum of Modern Art
  New York, NY
  
• Edgar Heap of Birds
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  Oklahoma City, OK
  
• René Morales
  Curator
  Peréz Art Museum Miami
  Miami, FL
  
• Catherine Sullivan
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  Chicago, IL
  2012 USA Fellow

• Writing

• Forrest Gander
  Poet
  Providence, RI
  2008 USA Fellow
• Christina Pugh
  Consulting Editor
  Poetry Magazine
  Chicago, IL
  
• Ellen Placey Wadey
  Program Officer
  Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
  Chicago, IL
  

2014 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Ellen Grimes
  Professor of Architecture
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Carlos Martinez
  Design Director & Principal
  Gensler
  Chicago, IL
  
• Kate Orff
  Landscape Architect & Founder
  SCAPE
  New York, NY
  2012 USA Fellow

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Theresa Secord
  Executive Director
  Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
  Waterville, ME
  
• Michael Sherrill
  Artist & Founder
  Mudtools
  Asheville, NC
  
• Namita Gupta Wiggers
  Curator & Founder
  Critical Craft Forum
  Portland, OR
  

• Dance

• Michelle Ellsworth
  Dancer & Choreographer
  Professor of Theater and Dance, University of Colorado Boulder
  Boulder, CO
  2011 USA Fellow
• Maura Keefe
  Historian & Professor
  SUNY Brockport
  Brockport, NY
  
• Peter Taub
  Director of Performance Programs
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Media

• Rania Attieh
  Filmmaker
  En Passant Films
  New York, NY
  2012 USA Fellow
• Justine Nagan
  Executive Director
  Kartemquin Films
  Chicago, IL
  
• Dmae Roberts
  Independent Radio Artist and Writer
  Portland, OR
  2006 USA Fellow

• Music

• Welz Kauffman
  President & CEO
  Ravinia Festival
  Chicago, IL
  
• Ellen Koskoff
  Professor of Ethnomusicology
  Eastman School of Music
  Rochester, NY
  
• Claire Lynch
  Musician
  Nashville, TN
  2012 USA Fellow

• Theater & Performance

• Adrienne Edwards
  Curator
  Performa
  New York, NY
  
• Robbie McCauley
  Playwright, Actor, & Director
  Boston, MA
  2012 USA Fellow
• Chay Yew
  Artistic Director
  Victory Gardens Theater
  Chicago, IL
  

• Visual Art

• Huey Gene Copeland
  Associate Professor of Art History
  Northwestern University
  Evanston, IL
  
• Coco Fusco
  Artist & Writer
  New York, NY
  2012 USA Fellow
• Clara Kim
  Independent Curator
  Los Angeles, LA
  

• Writing

• Adrian Castro
  Poet & Author
  Miami, FL
  2012 USA Fellow
• Marilyn Chin
  Professor
  English Department, San Diego State University
  San Diego, CA
  2007 USA Fellow
• Aleksander Hemon
  Writer & Critic
  Chicago, IL
  2012 USA Fellow

2012 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• J. Yolande Daniels
  Founding Design Principal
  Studio SUMO
  Long Island City, NY
  
• Nastasha Jen
  Partner
  Pentagram
  New York, NY
  
• Grace La
  Principal
  LA DALLMAN Architects, Inc.
  Milwaukee, WI
  
• Elena Manferdini
  Atelier Manferdini
  Los Angeles, CA
  2011 USA Fellow
• Zoë Ryan
  Chair & Curator of Architecture and Design
  The Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Fabio J. Fernández
  Exhibitions Director
  The Society of Arts and Crafts
  Boston, MA
  
• Jo Lauria
  Historian & Independent Curator
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Beth Lo
  Professor, Ceramics and Drawing
  University of Montana, Missoula
  Missoula, MT
  2009 USA Fellow
• P. Andrew Spahr
  Director of Collections and Exhibitions
  Currier Museum of Art
  Manchester, NH
  
• Jonella Larson White
  Rural Specialist
  The Foraker Group
  Anchorage, AK
  

• Dance

• Dayna Hanson
  Dancer, Choreographer, & Musician
  Seattle, WA
  2010 USA Fellow
• Rosie Herrera
  Artistic Director
  Rosie Herrera Dance Company
  Miami, FL
  2016 USA Fellow
• Andrew Horwitz
  Curator
  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
  New York, NY
  
• Ben Johnson
  Director, Northrop Concerts and Lectures
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, MN
  
• Renae Williams Niles
  Director of Programming
  The Music Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Media

• Natalia Almada
  Documentary Filmmaker
  Mexico City, MX
  2010 USA Fellow
• Ann Heppermann
  Radio Producer, Transmission, & Sound Artist
  New York, NY
  2011 USA Fellow
• Robert Koehler
  Director of Programming
  Film Society of Lincoln Center
  New York, NY
  
• Rose Kuo
  Executive Director
  Film Society of Lincoln Center
  New York, NY
  
• Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Film Critic
  Chicago, IL
  

• Music

• Mike Flynn
  Producer & Host
  The Folk Sampler
  Siloam Springs, AR
  
• Gabriela Lena Frank
  Pianist & Composer
  Oakland, CA
  2010 USA Fellow
• John Hill
  New Media Director, Northern Public Radio
  Northern Illinois University
  DeKalb, IL
  
• Mark Travis
  Audio Producer
  New York Philharmonic
  New York, NY
  
• Kristin Wilkinson
  Violist & Composer
  Nashville, TN
  

• Theater & Performance

• Braden Abraham
  Associate Artistic Director
  Seattle Repertory Theatre
  Seattle, WA
  
• Cheryl Lynn Bruce
  Actor & Director
  Chicago, IL
  
• Juliette Carrillo
  Freelance Director
  Cornerstone Theater Ensemble
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Kirk Lynn
  Playwright
  Austin, TX
  USA Fellow 2011
• Chay Yew
  Artistic Director
  Victory Gardens Theater
  Chicago, IL
  

• Visual Art

• Lauri Firstenberg
  Founder, Director, & Chief Curator
  LAXART
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Clara Kim
  Senior Curator of Visual Arts
  Walker Art Center
  Minneapolis, MN
  
• Sarah Lewis
  Author, Curator, & Critic
  Yale University School of Art
  New York, NY
  
• Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
  Artist
  Chicago, IL
  
• Tobias Ostrander
  Chief Curator & Deputy Director
  Miami Art Museum
  Miami, FL
  

• Writing

• Steve Erickson
  Novelist
  Topanga, CA
  
• Forrest Gander
  Poet
  Providence, RI
  2008 USA Fellow
• Cristina Garcia
  University Chair in Creative Writing
  Texas State-San Marcos
  San Marcos, TX
  
• Frank Stewart
  Editor
  Manoa: A Pacific Journal
  Honolulu, HI
  
• Karen Tei Yamashita
  Professor, Literature Department
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, CA
  2011 USA Fellow

2011 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Richard Massey
  Designer
  Miami, FL
  
• Teddy Cruz
  Professor in Public Culture and Urbanism
  University of California San Diego
  San Diego, CA
  2010 USA Fellow
• J. Yolande Daniels
  Founding Design Principal
  Studio SUMO
  Long Island City, NY
  
• Ellen Grimes
  Associate Professor
  School of The Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• John Stuart
  Professor of Architecture
  Florida International University
  Miami, FL
  

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Fabio Fernandez
  Exhibitions Director
  The Society of Arts and Crafts
  Boston, MA
  
• Jeremy Frey
  Basketmaker
  Indian Township, ME
  2010 USA Fellow
• Lowery Sims
  Curator
  Museum of Arts and Design
  New York, NY
  
• Robert Sidner
  Director
  Mingei International Museum
  San Diego, CA
  
• Suzanne Ramljak
  Metalsmith
  Bethel, CT
  

• Dance

• Anna Glass
  Managing Director
  651 Arts
  New York, NY
  
• Elizabeth Doud
  Artistic Director
  Miami Dade College Cultura del Lobo
  Miami, FL
  
• Bebe Miller
  Artistic Director
  Bebe Miller Company
  Columbus, OH
  2010 USA Fellow
• Bonnie Homsey
  Chair of Dance
  Princess Grace Foundations
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Ben Johnson
  Director, Northrop Concerts
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, MN
  

• Media

• Susan Stone
  Sound Artist & Producer
  San Francisco, CA
  2007 USA Fellow
• Sky Sitney
  Festival Director
  Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery
  Silver Spring, MD
  
• Miguel Alvarez
  Filmmaker
  Austin, TX
  
• Rose Kuo
  Executive Director
  Film Society of Lincoln Center
  New York, NY
  
• Kenneth Turan
  Film Critic
  Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Music

• Anne LeBaron
  Composer & Professor
  California Institute of the Arts
  Valencia, CA
  
• Miguel del Aguila
  Composer
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Rob Ickes
  Musician
  Franklin, TN
  2010 USA Fellow
• Mark Travis
  Audio Producer
  New York Philharmonic
  New York, NY
  
• Jenny Lin
  Pianist
  New York, NY
  

• Theater & Performance

• Philip Kan Gotanda
  Playwright & Filmmaker
  Berkeley, CA
  
• Steve Scott
  Associate Producer
  Goodman Theater
  Chicago, IL
  
• Dan Rothenberg
  Co-Artistic Director
  Pig Iron Theatre Company
  Philadelphia, PA
  2010 USA Fellow
• Terry Hong
  Media Arts Consultant
  Washington, DC
  
• Juliette Carrillo
  Theater Director & Filmmaker
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Visual Art

• Mel Chin
  Artist
  Burnsville, NC
  2010 USA Fellow
• Dominic Molón
  Chief Curator
  Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
  St. Louis, MO
  
• Sarah Lewis
  Writer & Curator
  Yale University School of Art
  New Haven, CT
  
• Ursula Davila-Villa
  Associate Curator
  Blanton Museum of Art
  Austin, TX
  

• Writing

• Elizabeth Alexander
  Chair, African American Studies
  Yale University
  New Haven, CT
  
• Doug Wright
  Playwright & Screenwriter
  New York, NY
  2010 USA Fellow
• Kyoko Mori
  Writer & Professor of English
  George Mason University
  Washington, DC
  
• John Biguenet
  Professor
  Loyola University New Orleans
  New Orleans, LA
  
• Deborah Treisman
  Fiction Editor
  The New Yorker
  New York, NY
  

2010 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Karen Fiss
  Associate Professor, Visual Studies
  California College of the Arts
  San Francisco, CA
  
• Gordon Kipping
  Principal
  G TECTS
  New York, NY
  
• John Stuart
  Professor, College of Architecture
  Florida International University
  Miami, FL
  
• J. Meejin Yoon
  Founder
  MY Studio
  Boston, MA
  2008 USA Fellow

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Jean McLaughlin
  Executive Director
  Penland School of Crafts
  Penland, NC
  
• Perry Eaton
  Executive Director
  African Craft Council
  Anchorage, AK
  2009 USA Fellow
• Adam Silverman
  Partner & Studio Director
  Heath Ceramics
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Lowery Sims
  Curator
  Museum of Arts and Design
  New York, NY
  

• Dance

• Sixto Wagan
  Co-Executive Director
  DiverseWorks Artspace
  Houston, TX
  
• Cathy Edwards
  Director of Performance Programs
  International Festival of Arts + Ideas
  New Haven
  
• Anna Glass
  Managing Director
  651ARTS
  Brooklyn, NY
  
• Reggie Wilson
  Artistic Director
  Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group
  New York, NY
  2009 USA Fellow
• Jordan Peimer
  Director of Public Programs
  Skirball Cultural Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Media

• Chale Nafus
  Director of Programming
  Austin Film Society
  Austin, TX
  
• Michelle Byrd
  Co-President
  Games for Change
  New York, NY
  
• Elizabeth Meister
  Producer & Editor
  Long Haul Productions
  Three Oaks, MI
  2009 USA Fellow
• Renée Tajima-Peña
  Filmmaker & Professor
  University of California Santa Cruz
  Los Angeles, CA
  2009 USA Fellow
• Kenneth Turan
  Film Critic
  Los Angeles Times
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Music

• Cristian Amigo
  Composer & Guitarist
  New York, NY
  
• Peter Golub
  Director
  Sundance Film Music Program
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Martha Gonzalez
  Musician, Quetzal, Fandango sin Fronteras
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
  
• Jenny Lin
  Pianist
  New York, NY
  
• Hannibal Lokumbe
  Composer & Trumpeter
  Bastrop, TX
  2009 USA Fellow

• Theater & Performance

• Roberta Levitow
  Associate Artist
  Sundance Institute East
  Santa Monica, CA
  
• Ismâïl ibn Conner
  Artistic Associate
  7 Stages Theatre
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Philip Kan Gotanda
  Playwright
  Berkeley, CA
  
• John O'Neal
  Founder & Artistic Director
  Junebug Productions
  New Orleans, LA
  2009 USA Fellow
• Diane Rodriguez
  Associate Producer/Director, New Play Production
  Center Theatre Group
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Visual Art

• Karen Moss
  Adjunct Curator
  Orange County Museum of Art
  Newport Beach, CA
  
• Rita Gonzalez
  Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• James Rondeau
  Curator + Chair, Contemporary Art
  The Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Gary Simmons
  Artist
  New York, NY
  2007 USA Fellow
• Raechell Smith
  Director, H&R Block Artspace
  Kansas City Art Institute
  Kansas City, MO
  

• Writing

• Major Jackson
  Poet & Associate Professor
  University of Vermont
  Burlington, VT
  
• John Biguenet
  Professor
  Loyola University New Orleans
  New Orleans, LA
  
• Maureen N. McLane
  Associate Professor of English
  New York University
  New York, NY
  
• Antonya Nelson
  Writer
  Las Cruces, NM
  2009 USA Fellow
• Judith Ortiz Cofer
  Writer
  Louisville, GA
  

2009 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Peter Zellner
  Principal
  ZELLNERPLUS
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Mabel O. Wilson
  Associate Professor of Architecture
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  
• Karen Fiss
  Associate Professor, Visual Studies
  California College of the Arts
  San Francisco, CA
  
• Joseph Rosa
  Curatorial Chair of Architecture and Design
  Art Institute of Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Stephen Burks
  Founder & Director
  Readymade Projects, Inc.
  New York, NY
  2008 USA Fellow

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Jean McLaughlin
  Executive Director
  Penland School of Crafts
  Penland, NC
  
• Sonya Clark
  Professor & Chair of Craft/Material Studies
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, VA
  2011 USA Fellow
• Sven Haakanson
  Executive Director
  Alutiiq Museum
  Kodiak, AK
  
• Patricia Capone
  Associate Curator
  Peabody Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA
  
• Richard T. Notkin
  Artist
  Helena, MT
  2008 USA Fellow

• Dance

• Jennifer S. B. Calienes
  Director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, FL
  
• Pat Graney
  Executive Director
  Pat Graney Company
  Seattle, WA
  2008 USA Fellow
• George Lugg
  Associate Director
  Roy & Edna Disney Theater
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Sixto Wagan
  Co-Executive Director
  DiverseWorks Artspace
  Houston, TX
  

• Media

• Claire Aguilar
  Vice President of Programming
  Independent Television Service
  San Francisco, CA
  
• Chale Nafus
  Director of Programming
  Austin Film Society
  Austin, TX
  
• Bill Horrigan
  Media Director, Wexner Center
  Ohio State University
  Columbus, OH
  
• Dmae Roberts
  Writer & Radio Producer
  Portland, OR
  2006 USA Fellow
• Lourdes Portillo
  Director, Writer, & Producer
  San Francisco, CA
  2008 USA Fellow

• Music

• Laura Mitgang
  Director of New Business
  The Metropolitan Opera
  New York, NY
  
• Molly Sturges
  Artistic Director
  Littleglobe
  Santa Fe, NM
  2008 USA Fellow
• George Y. Massenburg
  Recording Engineer & Producer
  Nashville, TN
  
• Peter Asher
  Partner
  Strategic Artist Management
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Cristian Amigo
  Composer, Guitarist, & Producer
  New York, NY
  

• Theater & Performance

• Ron Himes
  Founder & Producing Director
  St. Louis Black Rep
  St. Louis, MO
  
• Steve Scott
  Associate Producer
  Goodman Theatre
  Chicago, IL
  
• Rosalba Rolòn
  Co-Founder & Artistic Director
  Pregones Theater
  Bronx, NY
  2008 USA Fellow
• Tim Dang
  Producing Artistic Director
  East West Players
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Roberta Levitow
  Associate Artist
  Sundance Institute
  Santa Monica, CA
  

• Visual Art

• Julián Zugazagoitia
  Director & CEO
  El Museo del Barrio
  New York, NY
  
• Doryun Chong
  Associate Curator, Painting & Sculpture
  The Museum of Modern Art
  New York, NY
  
• Terry Adkins
  Sculptor
  New York, NY
  2008 USA Fellow
• Karen Moss
  Deputy Director, Exhibitions & Programs
  Orange County Museum
  Newport Beach, CA
  
• Valerie Cassel Oliver
  Curator
  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
  Houston, TX
  

• Writing

• Major Jackson
  Poet & Associate Professor
  University of Vermont
  Burlington, VT
  
• Jeff Chang
  Writer
  Oakland, CA
  2008 USA Fellow
• Alan Michael Parker
  Professor & Director, Creative Writing
  Davidson College
  Davidson, NC
  
• Robert Polito
  Director of Graduate Program in Creative Writing
  The New School
  New York, NY
  
• Anne García-Romero
  Lecturer in Playwriting
  University of California Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara, CA
  

2008 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Monica Ponce de Leon
  Principal
  Office dA
  Boston, MA
  2007 USA Fellow
• Brooke Hodge
  Curator of Architecture & Design
  The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Mark Robbins
  Dean, School of Architecture
  Syracuse University
  New York, NY
  
• Mabel O. Wilson
  Associate Professor of Architecture
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  
• Rick Valicenti
  Owner & Principal
  Thirst
  Chicago, IL
  

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Janet Koplos
  Senior Editor
  Art in America
  New York, NY
  
• Maria Shaa Tiáa Williams
  Assistant Professor, Department of Native American Studies
  University of New Mexico
  Santa Fe, NM
  
• Gwendolyn Magee
  Fiber Artist
  Jackson, MS
  2007 USA Fellow
• Bruce W. Pepich
  Executive Director & Curator of Collections
  Racine Art Museum
  Racine, WI
  
• Andrew H. Glasgow
  Executive Director
  The American Craft Council
  New York, NY
  

• Dance

• Jennifer S. B. Calienes
  Director, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, FL
  
• Olga Garay
  Executive Director
  City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  Oakland, CA
  2006 USA Fellow
• Peter Taub
  Director of Performance Programs
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Renae Williams Niles
  Director of Dance Presentations
  The Music Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Media

• Steve James
  Producer & Director
  Chicago, IL
  
• Ron Yerxa
  Producer of Film
  Bona Fide Productions
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Claire Aguilar
  Vice President of Programming
  Independent Television Service
  San Francisco, CA
  
• Traci Tong
  News Producer
  BBC World Service
  Boston, MA
  
• Judith Helfand
  Filmmaker
  New York, NY
  2007 USA Fellow

• Music

• Jean Cook
  Producer & Deputy Director
  Future of Music Coalition
  Washington, DC
  
• Laura Mitgang
  Director of New Business
  The Metropolitan Opera
  New York, NY
  
• Robert Sadin
  Conductor, Arranger, & Record Producer
  New York, NY
  
• Tom Schnabel
  Producer & Consultant
  KCRW and LA Philharmonic
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Don Byron
  Musician
  New York, NY
  

• Theater & Performance

• Susan Booth
  Artistic Director
  Alliance Theatre
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Sheldon Epps
  Artistic Director
  Pasadena Playhouse
  Pasadena, CA
  
• James C. Nicola
  Artistic Director
  New York Theatre Workshop
  New York, NY
  
• Anthony Garcia
  Artistic Director
  El Centro Su Teatro
  Denver, CO
  2006 USA Fellow
• Martha Lavey
  Artistic Director
  Steppenwolf Theatre Company
  Chicago, IL
  

• Visual Art

• Valerie Cassel Oliver
  Curator
  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
  Houston, TX
  
• Aimee Chang
  Director, Academic & Residency Programs
  Hammer Museum
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Adam D. Weinberg
  Director
  Whitney Museum of Art
  New York, NY
  
• Hamza Walker
  Director of Education & Associate Curator
  The Renaissance Society
  Chicago, IL
  
• Daniel Joseph Martinez
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  Los Angeles, CA
  2007 USA Fellow

• Writing

• Patricia Powell
  Visiting Writer, Department of African & African American Studies
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
  
• Brighde Mullins
  Director, MPW Writing Program
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA
  2010 USA Fellow
• Marilyn Chin
  Professor, English Department
  San Diego State University
  San Diego, CA
  2007 USA Fellow
• Maureen N. McLane
  Associate Professor of English
  New York University
  New York, NY
  
• Robert Polito
  Director, Graduate Program in Creative Writing
  The New School
  New York, NY
  

2007 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Yeohlee Teng
  Designer & President
  YEOHLEE
  New York, NY
  
• Carlos Jimenez
  Principal
  Carlos Jimenez Studio
  Houston, TX
  
• Terence Riley
  Director
  Miami Art Museum
  Miami, FL
  
• Sigi Moeslinger
  Partner
  Antenna Design
  New York, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Brooke Hodge
  Curator of Architecture & Design
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Tanya Aguiñiga
  Furniture Designer
  Los Angeles, CA
  2006 USA Fellow
• Mark Richard Leach
  Founding Director & Chief Curator
  Mint Museum of Craft + Design
  Charlotte, NC
  
• Ronald T. Labaco
  Curator of Decorative Arts
  High Museum of Art
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Maria Williams
  Assistant Professor
  Native American Studies
  Santa Fe, NM
  
• Lori Pourier
  President
  First Peoples Fund
  Rapid City, SD
  

• Dance

• Ana María Alvarez
  Artistic Director & Choreographer
  contra-tiempo
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Neil Barclay
  President & CEO
  August Wilson Center
  Pittsburgh, PA
  
• Laura Faure
  Director
  Bates Dance Festival
  Lewiston, ME
  
• Ella Baff
  Executive Director
  Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
  Becket, MA
  
• Peter Taub
  Director of Performance Programs
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Media

• Thomas Allen Harris
  Producer, Director, & Writer
  New York, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Susan Braine
  Chief Operating Officer
  Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
  Albuquerque, NM
  
• Hampton Francher
  Writer & Director
  New York, NY
  
• Michael Renov
  Associate Dean, School of Cinematic Arts
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Elvis Mitchell
  Film Critic
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Ed Barguiarena
  Composer, Musician, & Producer
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Robert Sadin
  Conductor, Arranger, & Producer
  New York, NY
  
• Lourdes Pérez
  Vocalist, Composer, & Songwriter
  Austin, TX
  2006 USA Fellow
• Welz Kauffman
  President & CEO
  Ravinia Festival
  Highland, IL
  
• Simeon Pillich
  Adjunct Professor of Music
  Occidental College
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Theater & Performance

• Emilya Cachapero
  Director of Artistic Programs
  Theatre Communications Group
  New York, NY
  
• Tom Jacobson
  Playwright
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Ping Chong
  Artistic Director
  Ping Chong & Company
  New York, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Susan Booth
  Artistic Director
  Alliance Theatre
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Lane Czaplinski
  Artistic Director
  On the Boards
  Seattle, WA
  

• Visual Art

• Hugh M. Davies
  Director
  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
  San Diego, CA
  
• Michael Joo
  Multidisciplinary Artist
  New York, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Tosha Grantham
  Assistant Curator
  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  Richmond, VA
  
• Russell Ferguson
  Chair, Department of Art
  University of California Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Rina Carvajal
  Adjunct Curator
  Miami Art Museum
  Miami, FL
  

• Writing

• Marcos M. Villatoro
  Novelist & Poet
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Eavan Boland
  Professor, Humanities, & Director of Creative Writing
  Stanford University
  Palo Alto, CA
  
• Amy Hempel
  Writer
  New York, NY
  2006 USA Fellow
• Nicolás Kanellos
  Director, Arte Pùblico Press
  University of Houston
  Houston, TX
  
• Brighde Mullins
  Director, MFA Writing Program
  California Institute of the Arts
  Valencia, CA
  2010 USA Fellow

2006 Panelists

• Architecture & Design

• Ming Fung
  Partner
  Hodgetts + Fung
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Paola Antonelli
  Acting Chief Curator of Architecture + Design
  The Museum of Modern Art
  New York, NY
  
• Carlos Jimenez
  Founder
  Carlos Jimenez Studio
  Houston, TX
  
• Ted Landsmark
  President & CEO
  Boston Architectural College
  Boston, MA
  
• Elizabeth Smith
  Chief Curator + Deputy Director of Programs
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  

• Craft & Traditional Arts

• Theresa Harlan
  Independent Curator & Writer
  Vallejo, CA
  
• Josie S. Talamantez
  Chief of Programs
  California Arts Council
  Sacramento, CA
  
• Tony Hepburn
  Chair, Ceramics Department
  Cranbrook Academy of Art
  Bloomfield Hills, MI
  
• Betsy Peterson
  Executive Director
  Fund for Folk Culture
  Austin, TX
  
• Marirose Morris
  Arts Access Specialist
  Wyoming Arts Council
  Cheyenne, WY
  

• Dance

• Neil Barclay
  President & CEO
  August Wilson Center
  Pittsburgh, PA
  
• Bonnie Brooks
  Chair, Dance Center
  Columbia College Chicago
  Chicago, IL
  
• Michael Kondziolka
  Director of Programming
  University Musical Society
  Ann Arbor, MI
  
• Donald McKayle
  Artistic Director, UCI Dance
  University of California at Irvine
  Irvine, CA
  
• Mark Murphy
  Executive Director
  REDCAT
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Media

• Arthur Jafa
  Cinematographer & Artist
  New York, NY
  2018 USA Fellow
• Elizabeth M. Daley
  Dean, School of Cinematic Arts, USC
  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• John Diliberto
  Senior Producer & Host
  Echoes
  Philadelphia, PA
  
• Joan Tewkesbury
  Screenwriter, Director, & Producer
  Santa Monica, CA
  
• Rick Tejada-Flores
  Producer
  Paradigm Productions
  Berkeley, CA
  
• Elvis Mitchell
  Film Critic
  New York, NY
  

• Music

• Brent Assink
  Executive Director
  San Francisco Symphony
  San Francisco, CA
  
• Juan Tejeda
  Musician
  San Antonio, TX
  
• Ed Barguiarena
  Musician
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Chad Smith
  Vice President of Artistic Planning
  Los Angeles Philharmonic
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Julia Wolfe
  Artistic Director
  Bang on a Can
  Brooklyn, NY
  

• Theater & Performance

• Philip Bither
  Senior Curator, Performing Arts
  Walker Art Center
  Minneapolis, MN
  
• Emilya Cachapero
  Director of Artistic Programs
  Theatre Communications Group
  New York, NY
  
• Marc Masterson
  Artistic Director
  Actors Theatre of Louisville
  Louisville, KY
  
• Wesley V. Montgomery
  Managing Director
  New WORLD Theater, University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, MA
  
• Josephine Ramirez
  Vice President of Programming & Planning
  Music Center
  Los Angeles, CA
  

• Visual Art

• Jeffrey Grove
  Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art
  High Museum of Art
  Atlanta, GA
  
• Barbara Kruger
  Artist & Professor
  University of California Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Russell Ferguson
  Deputy Director, Exhibitions & Programs Chief Curator
  Hammer Museum
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Thelma Golden
  Director & Chief Curator
  Studio Museum in Harlem
  Harlem, NY
  
• Paul Ha
  Director
  Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
  St. Louis, MO
  

• Writing

• Reginald McKnight
  English Professor
  University of Georgia
  Athens, GA
  
• Maile Meloy
  Writer
  Los Angeles, CA
  
• Lan Samantha Chang
  Director
  Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa
  Iowa City, IA
  
• Eavan Boland
  Professor in Humanities & Director of the Creative Writing Program
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
  
• Henri Cole
  Poet
  Boston, MA
  2007 USA Fellow