Creative Residency 2023 Jurors:
Performance, Film & Music

Naa Akua, is a New York born poet, actor, educator, and sound-word practitioner who is Ghanaian/Bajan and queer. Akua uses the vibratory energy of sound and the intent of word as a vehicle towards healing. Akua, former 2019 Citizen University Poet-in-Residence is a Writers in the Schools (Seattle Arts & Lectures) Writer-in-Residence at Franklin High School, Hugo House teacher, and Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) youth facilitator.

Andrew Joslyn, composer, orchestrator, and violinist is an award-winning musical polymath whose passion for collaboration has led him to work with a remarkably diverse group of world-class artists, touring the world, performing, co-writing and arranging music on over 400 songs throughout his career. Along the way he has amassed an extensive list of writing, orchestrating, recording and touring credits that include: Macklemore, Kesha, Judy Collins, Leslie Odom Jr., Lizzy McAlpine, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Blind Pilot, K Flay, Chase Rice, Tom Chaplin (Keane), Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses), The Seattle Symphony, and many many others. He currently runs his own music production studio, and has scored several feature length films, and writes music for artists, labels, podcasts, music licensing houses, and commercials. He is also an avid music advocate with the Recording Academy as co-chair of National Advocacy, a board member of SMASH (Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare), BIDA, BPA, and a Mayoral appointment to the Seattle Music Commission.

Scott Kildall has been working with art + technology + education for over 15 years. In 2017, he worked as an American Arts Incubator Artist, where he led a 1-month workshop in Bangkok to teach data-visualization and sculptural techniques to local Thai educators and students involving water quality in that city. Additionally, he has worked as a New Media Exhibit Developer (2012-13) at The Exploratorium in the Life Sciences Gallery. He has also taught coursework involving data-visualization and digital mapping at the University of San Francisco.