Board of Directors

When Jessica, a Boyd County, KY native, took a pottery elective to fill a hole in her schedule as a college freshman, she had no idea the world of creative experiences and opportunities it would open up. She has since used her eye and penchant for expression in production pottery work, exhibit curation, graphic design and marketing, teaching, and administrative roles at galleries, museums and art centers. Jessica now has a decade of leadership experience in non-profit and arts administration. Prior to joining CEDIK in January 2020 as an Arts Extension Associate, she served as Executive Director of the Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman, KY. There, she envisioned and implemented a half-million dollar Creative Place-making Initiative termed the “Culture of Recovery” which has gained national acclaim utilizing the power of the arts in addiction healing. Jessica’s additional training as a Community Scholar and as a Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange Cohort informs her work to bridge divides within communities through creativity and good stewardship. At CEDIK, Jessica continues and expands her work of integrating arts into recovery efforts, developing a statewide curriculum and toolkit for use by community partners who wish to strengthen existing treatment programs for substance use disorder through the addition of arts-expression programming.

Fran Redmon has a B.F.A. in Commercial Art from Western Kentucky University. She is the former director of the Kentucky Craft Marketing (CMP), a program of the Kentucky Arts Council. She received the 2007 Craft Organization Development Association’s (CODA) national award for “Outstanding Service, Creative Thinking, and Leadership” having a significant impact on the crafts field. State and national leadership positions include numerous boards, advisory councils and state government committees. She has consulted with numerous programs and is currently a Kentucky Peer Advisor for the Kentucky Arts Council. She is currently a working artist and pastel painter as Fran Redmon Fine Art. She is former program and marketing chair for the Appalachian Artisan Center. She and her husband formerly operated Redmon2 Marketing + Design. 

Philis Alvic, President is an artist, weaver, and writer. Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, she has shown her work in exhibitions throughout the country.  In 1977 she was awarded the Certificate of Excellence from the Handweavers Guild of America and received an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council in 1996.  She has published over 100 articles and papers on crafts and crafts history and two books, one on early 20th century Appalachian weaving centers and the other on crafts of Armenia.  She served as an international craft development consultant through agencies funded by USAID.

Mary is a lifelong craft artist and co-owner with her husband Robin of Appalachian Crafts. She studied fine arts at the University of Kentucky and the University of New Mexico. Mary is a juried member of the Kentucky Arts Council Kentucky Crafted program, a consultant with their Kentucky Peer Advisory Network and a Community Scholar with the Kentucky Folklife Program. She is the founding president of the Estill Arts Council, and a founding member of the Kentucky Craft History and Education Association. In the recent past she has served for many years on the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, the Appalachian Artist Center, and the River City Players board of directors. Mary has conducted numerous craft and business workshops, been an artist-in-resident in the schools, and taught teachers how to integrate the arts into the curriculum. Her crafts have sold throughout the United States and Europe and she has participated in numerous exhibits. 

Tim Glotzbach is a studio artist/lecturer. He earned a Master of Fine Art in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale and was a Professor of Art at both the State University of New York-Oswego and 21 years at Eastern Kentucky University. Tim’s work led him to serve as the Academic Dean of Heritage and Humanities at Hazard Community & Technical College and he was founding Director of the Kentucky School of Crafts. In 2018, Tim retired as Director of Berea College Student Crafts program. Throughout his career, Tim's work has been included in numerous national/regional invitational and juried exhibitions and he continues to serve as a board member for a number of arts and local non-profit organizations. In 2003 Tim was awarded the Rude Osolnik Award for outstanding individual efforts in crafts advocacy and education, and excellence in personal design and workmanship.

Karen McIntyre is an accredited associate (AIF®) at Meridian Wealth Management LLC in Lexington, KY. She has more than 15 years of experience working with high‐net‐worth clients as well as the emerging affluent in matters of investment management financial planning. Originally, from Ohio, Karen studied at Bowling Green State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University before moving to Lexington in 2011. her free time, Karen offers her time as a volunteer and fundraiser for local charities, practices yoga and enjoys walking with her husband, Dan, and black Labrador, Abby. 

Judy Kushner, formerly from Danville, Illinois and Louisville, Kentucky, now resides in Georgetown. She is a self-taught fiber artist producing a colorful line of hand-painted neckties and silk scarves. Her work that began with a focus on Derby designs has expanded in subject matter with an emphasis on color, mood and motion.She is a juried member of the Kentucky Crafted Program (Kentucky Arts Council), Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, and the Louisville Artisan Guild. She exhibits at the award-winning Kentucky Crafted Market, and other regional fairs. She received a grant to teach in schools and has received several commissions. Numerous corporate clients include Alltech, Yum!Brands, and Visa among others. Judy received a commission from the Commonwealth of Kentucky to design an ornament for the White House Christmas tree.