BOARD MEMBERS

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 has lived in the Park City area for over 30 years, where she loves the outdoors and our abundant wildlife. They provide unending inspiration for her unique welded steel pieces, which she has been creating since taking a welding class at the Kimball Art Center 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.

I create intuitively, and not formulaically. I’m not fully abstract, I’m not fully realistic, I’m sometimes landscape, sometimes cities and doors. I find my signature in my layering, my color, my destruction and dripping. The vertical scraping that is unique and special to me. These things are the things that come out when I’m not thinking about it, when I am truly creating. From representational to abstract, the subject is the least important part of the composition. More important, is how that subject is expressed through color and process. It may be unrecognizable as an object or scene, but is intricately represented in essence. Through this process, pieces may seem outwardly, uniquely different in style, but are inwardly speaking the same language.

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.

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.

Anna is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in web development. She has been creating art throughout her entire life and is proficient in a wide variety of mediums including: charcoal, acrylic, beadwork, pastel and digital art. Her work has been shown in the Urban Arts Gallery in Salt Lake, Park City Visitors Center, Create PC, and is also part of the permanent art collection in Park City City Hall. Anna began pursuing web development and computer programming in 2021 after studying user experience design. She has lived in Utah most of her life and has lived in the Park City area since 2023.