Our Jurors

Hunter O’Hanian is Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the first and one of the largest national LGBTQ+ archives and libraries in the United States. Previously, he was the head of the College Art Association, the largest professional association supporting art historians and visual artists in the world. Prior to that, he was the founding Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the only art museum devoted exclusively to artwork that speaks to the LGBTQ experience.

Kalki Subramaniam is a transgender activist, artist, poet, actor, and writer from India who founded the Sahodari Foundation in 2008 to empower transgender people in India. She published We Are Not the Others in 2021 and is the Lifetime Ambassador of TransAmsterdam, which is based in the Netherlands. In 2015, Kalki was named one of the 12 inspiring women of the world who use Facebook as a community development platform. In 2016, she was nominated by L’Oreal Paris India for the Women of Worth award in art. She is the founder of the India International Spiritual Art Festival, and the India International Short Film Festival.

Sudade Toxosi is a multidisciplinary artist and image curator whose vision is to articulate the “New Indigenous African” experience in America. In 2020, Saudade was named a distinguished fellow by Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. She has shown her art globally at Norval Foundation in South Africa, Hordaland Kunstsenter in Norway and  Bonnefantenmuseum, Maasstricht, the Netherlands. Toxosi has been named the BIPOC Guest Curator at Dunedin Fine Arts Center in Dunedin, Florida for 2023.

Saudade also is part of SpeakOut: The Intersection of LGBTQ Identity and Art, on June 4 with Steve Glassman.* You may register for this free event at: Eventbrite – SpeakOut: The Intersection of LGBTQ Identity and Art.