Meet Our Board Members
Mitch Bedke President
Mitch grew up in San Diego, the son of an accomplished painter and artist. After graduating from the U of U, he worked in his father’s advertising agency as a graphic designer, giving him freedom of creativity. He then settled in Park City in the late 80’s. Raising his two boys in this Mountain Town, they enjoy all it has to offer. In 2010 he took a glass fusing class at the Kimball Art Center and was quickly hooked. From there he moved into Glass Casting sculptures which is his main passion. In addition to Glass, Mitch enjoys carving Linocut block and making prints, welding, painting and photography.
Kelly Gallagher – Vice President and Website Designer
Kelly has lived in the Park City area for 30 years, where she loves the outdoors and our abundant wildlife. They provide unending inspiration for her unique welded steel creations. She began MIG welding in 2015. She enjoys taking inspiration from nature in her creations; even structural projects such as railings enjoy natural touches.
Besides her artwork, she enjoys trail running, snowshoeing and hiking in our wonderful mountains, and they provide continuous inspiration for new projects.
Karen Millar-Kendall – Secretary
Karen Kendall is originally from Michigan, where she began creating art as a young girl.
She currently is creating large abstract/representational landscapes using oil, and employing a textural, bold technique that uses striking color and design.
Karen has been employed as a high school special education teacher for 30 years, having retired just this year, 2019, to focus on her art and to get more involved in the arts community.
Karen has shown in galleries and exhibits, participated in the Kimball Arts Festival, commissioned paintings, and has donated work for fundraising events
Alix Railton – Treasurer
Alix Railton is a talented goldsmith, living and working in Park City for the past 30 years. She has been designing and creating jewelry for 25 years. She works in silver & gold and utilizes precious and semiprecious stones in her creations.
Richard Pick – Events
Richard D. Pick is a Park City, Utah based nature photographer. He is a native of Wisconsin where he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving West. He has had a lifelong passion for creative nature photography. His landscapes are almost exclusively of subjects on the Colorado Plateau and he enjoys taking his viewer to the remote areas on the Plateau. His images take the viewer to places they may never have the opportunity to experience. His prints are characterized by their sharp detail and large size. The emotion these images invoke will differ for each of us. Many of these images can have a mystic quality or be very abstract and the subject may not be entirely obvious on first viewing. These are not intended to be just images of things. They are intended to be images about things. These are special places and the images are meant to be studied and explored just as we might do if really there.
Rhonda Hypio – Member At Large
Rhonda is originally from Michigan, where her artistic talent and interest began in elementary school. She loves to create landscapes and birds in oil.
She and her husband own several condos in Park City, and have a small nightly rental business.
She also has a certificate of Interior Design and has done all the design for all their properties and many others over the years. She has shown and sold in exhibits, art markets, festivals, and has done many commissioned paintings.
Hazel Coppola – Member at Large
Hazel Rodriguez Coppola is a Guatemalan American ceramic artist and educator living and working in Park City, Utah. As an artist, Hazel’s work is a reflection of her innate desire to remember, tell and preserve stories. Primarily working in ceramics since she was 16 years old, she is captivated by the materiality of clay, and the expressive potential of its movements as they relate to visually telling its own story and retaining its own history. Hazel is constantly inspired by the rich traditions, food culture, memories, narrated stories, jokes, and anecdotes from her childhood growing up in an immigrant home. She reflects on her own experiences, as well as the stories of her ancestors to derive her work.