Multimedia collages by Park City-based visual artist Lisa Needham will be part of the Park City Artists Association “Spring Into Art” exhibit and event that will run Friday through Sunday at the DoubleTree by Hilton Park City — the Yarrow. The showcase will feature works of about 28 locally b ased artists. Credit: Image courtesy of Lisa Needham The Park City Artists Association is ready for its annual “Spring Into Art.” The free exhibit and market, which runs Friday through Sunday at the DoubleTree by Hilton Park City — The Yarrow, 1800 Park Ave., currently has 27 participant artists from painters and photographers to printmakers and metal workers. “We still have one slot open,” said Kelly Gallagher, PCAA board member and metalsmith. “So, if anyone can gather some works together, they can contact us to participate.” Interested artists can visit parkcityartists.org/home to apply. This weekend’s event marks the third year the association has teamed with the Yarrow, said Tony Moody, the hotel’s general manager.  “(Working with them) reaffirms the Yarrow’s commitment to Park City’s creative culture to support local organizations that foster community, expression and connection,” he said. The artists will set up in the ballroom, according to Moody. “The easiest way to get there is walk through the front doors and turn left,” he said. “There will be plenty of signage and people. Just follow them into the ballroom. It’s a good place to bring family and friends and kids and introduce them to the world of art of all mediums.” Karen Millar Kendall, a mixed-media painter and PCAA board member, enjoys participating in the show at the Yarrow. “There is not an abundance of opportunities in Park City to show work as a local artists,” she said. “So this is an opportunity for us to showcase what we do for the community. The Yarrow is fantastic,because they’ve been a community staple for years. So I feel like this is a really good collaboration between local arts and artists with the Yarrow. And I’m excited to be back again this year.” Karen Millar Kendall’s paintings will be a highlight of the Park City Artists Association’s third-annual “Spring Into Art” exhibit and show that will run this weekend at the DoubleTree by Hilton Park City — the Yarrow. Credit: Image courtesy of Karen Millar Kendall In addition to the Yarrow, Spring Into Art is made possible by sponsors — Crandall Capital, Caprock, Hearth and Hill, Lindstrom Chiropractic, Park City, StateFarm, Steve and Val Chin, Bolt Ranch and the Arts Council of Park City Summit County, said Gallagher. “It’s really important that we, as local artists, have sponsors who help us take control of our destinies a little bit,” she said. “To be able to coordinate a show and put it on for our members and other Wasatch Back and Wasatch Front artists is a really big deal. And it’s exceptionally exciting to put on a show and pull it off.” The show features mostly PCAA members, Gallagher said. “We always provide the opportunity to members when we start calling for artists,” she said. “We have almost 60 members in our organization, but if there aren’t enough who aren’t available, we do open the call up to artist who aren’t members.” Mixed media collage artist Lisa Needham, who will make her Spring Into Art debut this year, is one of the nonmembers who will participate in the show.  “This is new for me, and I’m really excited,” she said. “I’ve done all the artwork, and it’s taken me time to create an arsenal to even do a show. I did one show at the end of 2023, and I had six or seven pieces. It was a small show, and now I’ve got enough for a bigger show.” Needham, who is also known as a singer in a duo with her husband, Rich Wyman, creates her visual art through a printing process. “I do it on what is called a gelli plate, which is a printing plate made out of a firm Jell-O-type of substance,” she said. “When you put paint on that and put a piece of paper on top and pull the paper off, the images becomes distressed.” Needham loves this type of printmaking. “I love it a lot more than just putting paint on a canvas,” she said. “I make my own paper and print on rice paper or sometimes I just print on regular printer paper. Then I use all of those papers to create collages. So, I may do a printing background and then collage on top of it.” Needham has always been interested in the visual arts. “I had always done art here at home, pretty much in our kitchen,” she said. “So every time we’d have a meal, I would have to put everything away.” Her road to becoming an exhibiting artist came when she and her husband visited the Arts Council of Park City Summit County’s CREATE PC, a local artist collective located at 1500 Kearns Blvd., Suite F110, and talked with Executive Director Jocelyn Scudder and Events and Accessibility Coordinator Emma Brake. “Richard and I went into the gallery one day because we were so tired of not finding places to perform,” she said. “We told them we’re looking for spaces to perform, and they were so welcoming.” The Park City Artists Association’s third-annual “Spring Into Art” exhibit and event will feature an array of works, including metal art by local artist Kelly Gallagher. Credit: Image courtesy of Kelly Gallagher During the conversation, Scudder and Brake mentioned the upstairs studios, where artists set up residencies to create new works. “I asked how I could get in, and they put my name on the list,” Needham said. “We put my name down in March, and I got a call at the end of April. Then I moved in on May 1. I didn’t know there was anything like this to join. I feel I’m really becoming a visual artist because being in a showcase with other artists who I basically look up to feels like I’m being pulled into another level of being a visual artist.”  Still, becoming a member of the PCAA does have its perks, said Gallagher. “Artists can become members by contacting us through our website (parkcityartists.org/home), and there is a small annual fee,” she said. “But the membership comes with benefits.” The big benefit is the opportunity to participate in art shows and exhibits like Spring Into Art. “We are doing three shows this year,” Millar Kendall said. “We just finished a show at the Park City Library, and it was quite successful. Then we have this show, and then we’ll have a show later this summer at Red Butte Garden.” In addition, members gather for meetings throughout the year to discuss various topics that concern art and artists, said Gallagher. “We also have a monthly newsletter that goes out,” she said. The upcoming Spring Into Art show also helps raise money for PCAA’s scholarship program, said Gallagher. “Each year we select a Park City High School students who plan to go to college and study art,” she said. “We’ll have a table where artists will donate work to sell for greatly discounted prices to raise money for the scholarship program. Last year we raised about $2,500. We are proud of the efforts of our members to do that.”  The PCAA show always impresses Moody. “It’s amazing to walk around 27 or 28 booths every year and take a look at the range the art runs from metal to painting to different graphics,” he said. “They make it accessible to everybody with all the different mediums. For such a small community, they do a remarkable and incredible job to get 27 or more booths for artists ready for the show.” In addition to providing the ballroom, the Yarrow’s other functions will be available for artists and exhibit patrons, Moody said. “We have a very nice coffee shop that is very popular during these art shows,” he said. “Our restaurant will be open normal hours, and the bar will open at 4 p.m. There is plenty of free parking, so people can park anywhere around the hotel side and come in and make yourself at home.” Park City Artists Association: ‘Spring Into Art’  When: 3-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday Where: DoubleTree by Hilton Park City — The Yarrow, 1800 Park Ave. Cost: Free Web: tinyurl.com/ypkeeedd The post Locally based artists are ready to ‘Spring Into Art’ appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less