judges for the 54th kentuck festival of the arts
Kentuck Art Center is excited to welcome Alison Amick and Timothy Weber 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.
timothy weber
Artist, Craftsman, past Director of the Appalachian Center for Craft
Kentuck Studio Artist, 1982-1992
Timothy Weber has been a working artist craftsman for over fifty years. Along with his work with clay, Weber has pursued arts related work as an arts administrator, teacher, gallery owner and arts advocate. Most recent full-time positions have been as the Director of the Appalachian Center for Craft and as the Director of Visual Art, Craft and Media with the Tennessee Arts Commission. He has participated in scores of national juried arts festivals including the American Craft Council markets in Dallas, St Louis, Tampa and Charlotte; New Eastside Artwork, Chicago; and the American Artisan Festival, Nashville. Nationally and internationally, his works are in corporate and private collections including the Tennessee State Museum, Louisiana State University, Bell South, Amoco Corporation, Mobile Museum of Art, and the Japan Embassy to the United States. His teaching and workshop credits include Vanderbilt University, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, University of Alabama, and Danish Folk School in Denmark. Timothy continues to curate art exhibits and serves as a juror for varied arts events and exhibitions. Weber is a regular panelist to review applications for individual artists’ fellowship awards, arts grant applications and public art competitions.