Adjudication Committee

Queer Spectra Arts Festival is thrilled to announce this year’s Adjudication Committee members!

All submissions to the 2022 festival will be evaluated by this specially formed volunteer Adjudication Committee. This years Adjudicators represent a wide variety of artistic mediums and approaches, and Queer Spectra is grateful to have their perspectives and guidance as we make our selections.

 
 
 

Camille Washington (she/her)

Camille Washington (she/her) is a playwright and the Co-Director of Good Company Theatre, Utah’s only Black-owned theatre. She was a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Women of Color in the Arts. Prior to her work in theatre, Camille held positions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. She received her BA in Art History from the University of Utah (2006), and her MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute (2009).

Rhonda Kinard (she/her)

Rhonda Kinard (she/her) is a visual and performing artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her creative pursuits include working as a professional musician and photographer, and learning all she can about carpentry, woodworking, welding, and multidisciplinary collaboration. At her day job, Rhonda develops anti-racist, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice-oriented programs for historically marginalized and under-resourced communities. Lastly, she's super stoked to be participating in this years' Queer Spectra Arts Festival as an adjudicator after participating as a performer at the very first QSAF in 2019.

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Sarah Hobin (she/her)

Sarah Hobin is a writer and arts administrator. She currently lives in Chicago, where she is pursuing an MA in creative writing at the University of Chicago. Through poetry and creative non-fiction, Sarah writes on topics such as slowness in a digital age, embodiment amidst the pandemic, and her current project which focuses on links between loneliness, queerness, and language. Collaboration is a major part of her creative process, as is walking, reading, and endless revising. In her past lives, she has worked in curation and arts programming for museums and galleries in San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. 

 

Golnoush Pak (they/she)

My name is Golnoush Pak (They/She) and I am a cartoonist and illustrator based in Bay Area, California. I am a merit scholar student at California College of the Arts where I am pursuing an MFA in Comics. My art often explores the emerging themes between my roots in Iranian culture, my journey in self-discovery and cultural diversity, and my connection to the natural environment and the various social and racial justice issues that surround us.

 
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Samuel Hanson (he/him)

Samuel Hanson is an educator, dancer and arts administrator. He has performed for Hilary Carrier, Diana Crum, Isabel Lewis, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mina Nishimura, Yve Laris Cohen, Yvonne Meier and Alexandra Pirici, among others. Before living in New York from 2015-19, he worked closely with choreographer Ashley Anderson as a performer, curator and editor through her platform loveDANCEmore, which he now serves as executive director. He has taught dance in dozens of K-12 schools across Utah and New York City. He’s also guest lectured in dance at Davidson College, UVU and the University of the Américas Puebla.

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Sean Carter (he/him)

Sean is the Administrative Assistant and an Associate Instructor for the School of Dance at the University of Utah. He is originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Arts degree in Arts Administration from Southern Utah University and a Bachelor of Arts from The Pennsylvania State University in International Media Studies. Sean served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and while on active duty in 2006, he had the unique opportunity to travel the world with the Air Force’s premier entertainment showcase, Tops in Blue. On the tour he performed as a vocalist and served as the group’s Operations Officer overseeing the performing troupe’s travel and other logistical functions, public affairs and services functions. Since leaving the armed services, Sean has been pursuing a career in the performing arts. He has been seen across the Wasatch Front at various venues to include Hale Centre Theatre, The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company and The Egyptian Theatre (Park City). Some of his favorite roles include Papa Ge in “Once on this Island” (HCT and The Grand), Belize in “Angels in America: Parts I & II” (SLAC), and Willie Johnson in “Miss Evers’ Boys” (The Grand).