Create PC Artists Featured in 2022 Kimball Arts Festival
The 53rd annual Kimball Arts Festival will be converging on Park City’s Main Street on August 5-7, 2022. This year’s event will be showcasing the work of more than 200 artists. Among the chosen artists, you will find some familiar faces. There are four local, Create PC artists who will be displaying their work at the Festival.
During this three-day art extravaganza, you can find Karen Millar Kendall, House 48, Richard Pick, Bill Sillman, and Anna Leigh Moore will be taking part in the Festival. Bios for each artist are included below.
Also taking part, are local artists and Park City Artists Association members Kris Hanaman and A.D. Allegretti.
Karen Millar Kendall
Booth E157 near the No Name Saloon
Karen Millar Kendall’s work is reflective of the complexity of nature, and her emotional connection to it all. The pieces being showcased at the Kimball Arts Festival reflects a sense of observed chaos and beauty, coupled with uninhibited free flowing creativity and artistic intent. All are presented as an interpretation of what she sees and feels around her, particularly as it relates to a changing planet.
House 48
Founded by Graham and Ethan Reynolds in 2005, the House Forty Eight studio started as a room in their home. The home address (48) not only inspired the name House Forty Eight, but also their culture of collaboration.
Using design thinking to develop unique ways of producing handmade jewelry has since become a principle for House Forty Eight. At its heart, the House 48 studio is a combination of thoughtfully designed products and specialized craftsmanship.
Bill Silliman
Bill Sillman mainly photographs local scenes and wildlife. Sillman has photos of the Four Seasons of Old Town Park City taken from the Aerie. Sillman’s photo of a church with the milky way was chosen in 2021 at the Utah State Fair to travel one year with 24 other photogrpahss to under served areas by the Division of Arts and Museums. His photo of wildebeest was judged the "Best of Show" at the fair.
Richard Pick
Richard Pick has had a lifelong passion for creative nature photography. He’s transitioned from processing his own black and white film, to capturing high resolution digital images and processing and printing them in a digital darkroom. He has had the opportunity to study with noted photographers John and Barbara Gerlach, and master printmaker Charles Cramer. His landscapes concentrate on capturing the solitude of the Colorado Plateau, and his wildlife images are primarily of the incredible bird life found in Utah. His images have appeared in several publications, notably Audubon Magazine, and Audubon Calendars and educational materials. He has received numerous competition awards.
Anna Leigh Moore
After graduating college in 2013, Anna took a job as a railcar porter on a westbound train. It was from that blurred train window that she first witnessed the shimmering sage, ragged mountains, and sun-bleached deserts of the West. Hailing from the soft forests of Pennsylvania, she’d never experienced a landscape so boundless. The magnetic pull she felt was undeniable. Promptly after that trip, she moved to Granby Colorado where the mountains and high desert became her new home.
Putting her Journalism and Fine Art degree on pause, she chased a seasonal lifestyle of ski-bumming and adventure tour-guiding across the American West. This era allowed for greater exploration of wild lands and ignited a passion for backcountry skiing, rock climbing and mountain biking, giving her new ways to experience the landscape.
In 2018, she dedicated herself to the path to becoming a professional artist in Park City, Utah. Painting allows her to share not only the beauty of the West, but the sublime joy and freedom only found in true wilderness. Her deep connection to the outdoors fuels her work and gives a greater purpose to her outdoor adventures.
Kris Hanaman
Kris Hanaman is an encaustic painter (Encaustic: painting with pigmented, melted beeswax). Hanaman is drawn to this medium, because it allows for depth, translucency and unlimited possibilities. A piece can be smooth, or rich with texture. The process of layering, heating, mark-making and extracting allows Hanaman to discover what lies within each piece. She says she responds to what is organically happening and evolving with the work.
AD Allegretti
AD Allegretti is an artist, illustrator, designer, photographer, and all around adventurer from Los Angeles living in Park City, UT. Allegretti graduated in 2011 from Loyola Marymount University, receiving a BFA with an emphasis in Graphic Design. Allegretti loves to draw, and considers it an important basis for all her artwork. Allegretti is inspired by the mountains, the ocean, family, music, and other various forms of expression.