John Killacky

{{short description|American politician}}

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| state_house = Vermont

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| district = Chittenden-7-3

| term_start = 2019

| term_end = 2022

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| spouse = Lawrence Connolly{{Cite web|url=https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/single/2020/30949|title=Representative John Killacky|website=legislature.vermont.gov}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/exiting-the-flynn-center-john-killacky-looks-to-the-future/Content?oid=17394795|title=Exiting the Flynn Center, John Killacky Looks to the Future|first=Pamela|last=Polston|website=Seven Days}} Killacky also was an arts program officer with the San Francisco Foundation.{{Cite news |last=Garofoli |first=Joe |date=May 2, 2003 |title=Ella King Torrey - ex-president of S.F. Art Institute |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ella-King-Torrey-ex-president-of-S-F-Art-2619106.php |access-date=2024-04-06 |work=SFGate |language=en}}

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.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-10 |title=New video exhibit by former Vermont lawmaker offers meditations on grief and art-making |url=https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2023-02-10/intermedia-art-videos-created-by-former-vermont-legislator-john-killacky-are-on-display-jam-white-river-junction |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Vermont Public |language=en}}

He curated a retrospective photography exhibition, Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts, that toured to five venues in Vermont (2019–2021). Champlain College Art Gallery hosted a retrospective of eight of his videos, Embodied Voice (2018) and he was artist-in-residence there co-curating FluxFest (2023). {{Cite web |last=Lilly |first=Amy |title=At Champlain College, John Killacky Revisits an Art Movement With FluxFest |url=https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/at-champlain-college-john-killacky-revisits-an-art-movement-with-fluxfest-39282087 |access-date=2024-04-06 |website=Seven Days |language=en}} At Fabric Workshop and Museum (2024), he worked onsite with production staff on his intermedia installation, stillpoint, on view through August 2025. {{cite web | url=https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/artist/john-killacky/ | title=John Killacky }}