Board of Directors

Jessica, a Boyd County, Kentucky native, earned her Bachelor of Fine Art with a concentration in Ceramics from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Jessica has held a variety of roles at galleries, museums and art centers including curation, graphic design/marketing, teaching, grant-writing, and project management. She has over a decade of leadership experience in non-profit and arts administration. Prior to joining Blueprint Kentucky (formerly CEDIK) in January 2020, Jessica served as Executive Director of the Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman, KY. There, she envisioned and implemented a Creative Place-making Initiative termed the “Culture of Recovery” which has gained national acclaim utilizing the power of the arts in addiction healing. At Blueprint Kentucky, Jessica develops arts-expression programming and publications, provides support to county extension agents and community partners, and helps highlight the department's research and programming through document design and other marketing/communications support. In response to the devastation of the eastern Kentucky flooding in 2022, she developed the Community Arts Disaster Recovery Series. Jessica has additional training as a Comm. unity Scholar and a Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange Cohort.

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 serves on the board and grants committee for Yes Arts, Frankfort. 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. Karen offers her time as a volunteer and fundraiser for local charities. 

Christy Buettner Boyd, is an experienced educator, arts advocate, and communications professional. She earned her B.A. in Communications from University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Christy is pursuing a Masters of Art in Teaching from Morehead State University. She has held a range of leadership roles in the nonprofit and media sectors that center on promoting Kentucky’s cultural heritage. Christy served as Station Manager at Hometown24 and Marketing and Communications Liaison at TVS Cable, where she amplified local voices and stories through rural media channels. She served as both Director of Fundraising and Development and subsequent board member at the Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman.  She has also helped to guard the future of the region’s literary heritage by engaging children with the works of Appalachian authors as a middle/high school Language Arts instructor in the Kentucky Public School System. She has served as a member and former president of the Knott County Chamber of Commerce and a prior chapter regent of the Troublesome Creek Daughters of the American Revolution.