judges for the 54th kentuck festival of the arts
Update: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Timothy Weber will be unable to serve as a judge at this year’s Kentuck Festival of the Arts. We’re pleased to welcome Kellee Reinhart, a communications professional with a broad background in the arts, as his replacement on the 2025 judging panel.
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Kentuck Art Center is excited to welcome Alison Amick and Kellee Reinhart as judges for the 54th Kentuck Festival of the Arts on October 11-12, 2025 at Snow Hinton Park in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Judges award a total of $12,200 to exhibiting artists at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts. On Saturday, October 11, judges will numerically score exhibiting artists based on quality, originality, design, composition, technique, and overall presentation.
alison amick
Chief Curator and Senior Director of Exhibitions and Collections
Intuit Art Museum (IAM), Chicago, Illinois
​Alison Amick is Chief Curator and Senior Director of Exhibitions and Collections at Intuit Art Museum (IAM) in Chicago. She is co-curator of Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago, the inaugural exhibition at the newly-renovated IAM. Amick has organized numerous exhibitions for the museum, including Darger + War: Violence and Loss in Self-Taught Art and Trauma and Loss, Reflection and Hope: Selections from the Collection, as well as solo exhibitions of Roman Villarreal, Justin Duerr, Marvin Tate and Tarik Echols. In 2019, she curated a three-part exhibition series, Henry Darger: The Room Revealed, working with co-curators to offer an in-depth exploration of themes related to Darger’s work. Most recently, she worked with Creative Growth, Project Onward and Arts of Life to feature exhibitions of the progressive studio’s work at Intuit. In addition to her work on exhibitions, she is responsible for overseeing the museum’s collection of more than 1,200 objects, and the Henry Darger Room collection, which includes source materials, ephemera, and objects from the artist’s Chicago apartment. Prior to arriving at IAM in 2016, Amick served as curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art for more than a decade.
kellee reinhart
Kellee Reinhart is a veteran communications professional with a broad background in the arts. As a magazine editor, she worked closely with artists, dealers, and collectors during an era of historic growth in the global marketplace. As a volunteer, Kellee worked alongside Kentuck founder Georgine Clarke to help establish Kentuck as one of the nation’s premier festivals and a vital year-round cultural resource.