Kentuck Receives $20K Grant To Fund 2025 Programming Season

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Kentuck Art Center on Thursday announced it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $20,000.

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Kentuck Art Center Executive Director Exa Skinner said the grant will support exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations, and community outreach for Kentuck's 2025 programming season.

"This year, we invite our community to enjoy what artists have done with materials from nature," Skinner said. "We are so lucky to live in an area of the country with abundant natural resources, and we're pleased to share this exceptional lineup of exhibitions with our West Alabama community."

Kentuck's "From the Earth" is a year-long celebration of artists who incorporate natural materials into their work. The programming season will put a spotlight on self-taught “folk” artists and traditional crafters from the American South.

"We're also offering some new opportunities to visit some of our exhibitors at their studios to see where they harvest their natural materials and how they turn their material into treasured works of art," Skinner said.

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