John Killacky

John R. Killacky is an American politician, former arts administrator, and artist. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 2019 and served two terms. Before his retirement in 2018, Killacky was the head of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont. Killacky also was an arts program officer with the San Francisco Foundation. He has written numerous publications on the arts and written and directed several award-winning short films and videos. His videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities. His work has been televised locally in Houston, Minnesota, and Vermont, and nationally on Free Speech TV, PBS, and Cultura24 in Holland.

He curated a retrospective photography exhibition, Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts, that toured to five venues in Vermont (2019–2021) and was artist in residence at Champlain College Art Gallery, co-curating FluxFest (2023) and a residency at Fabric Workshop and Museum (2024).

Books

 * Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories
 * because art: Commentary, Critique, & Conversation (Onion River Press, 2021)