Central Utah Art Center

Box 471
Spring City, Utah, 84662

Board Fiscal Agent

Born in Provo, Utah, Kathleen B. Peterson received a B.A. in commercial art from Brigham Young University and continued her artistic studies at the University of Hawaii and Snow College. Her work has been displayed in galleries throughout Utah as well as in Malaysia, Hawaii, Ojai, California, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
She paints landscapes, architecture and people, using oils, watercolors, pastels and batik. Kathy also enjoys illustrating books and publications. Books include “A World of Faith” ; a book by Peggy Fletcher Stack featuring 28 world religions: “Stones of the Temple ; a book by Fred Voros about the building of the Salt Lake Temple”; and 7 books of fables by Carol Lynn Pearson including “The Lesson”, “What Love Is”, Will You Still Be My Daughter”, “A Strong Man”, “ Girlfriend”, “The Gift”, and “Sisters” ; “Koa’s Seed” a Hawaiian legend by Carolyn Han, “Pele and Poliahu, A Tale of Fire and Ice”.

website: www.kathleenpeterson.net

390 South, 100 West, Spring City, Utah
435-462-5225 | pchrisanderson@gmail.com

Board Secretary
Development Committee Chair

Chris lives in Spring City, Utah, and is a partner in the regional law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, based out of its Salt Lake City office. His law practice focuses on business, securities and international legal issues, and he has extensive background in venture capital transactions for emerging-growth companies, and in the representation of high-technology companies in the initial stages of development. Chris is a past President of the Securities and International Sections of the Utah State Bar. Other nonprofit affiliations include work with the Utah MicroEnterprise Loan Fund, the Tanner Dance Program and Spring City Arts. Chris comes from a large family of art aficionados, enjoys traditional Utah art, and is a closet painter-wannabe. His free time is spent working with his wife, Alison, to restore a pioneer era home, or enjoying the adventures of their four children.

Born March 17, 1956, in Merced, California, Lee Udall Bennion moved to Utah in 1974 to study art at Brigham Young University. In 1976, she married ceramist Joseph Bennion and moved to the rural setting of Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah. She has three daughters and is active in the family-oriented life of Spring City. Energetically involved in both church and community activities, Lee's obvious commitment to family is reflected in the subject matter of many of her paintings.
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Kelly and her husband, English arrived in Ephraim in November of 2004 right before the coldest week of the year. Since then they have seen and explored Sanpete Valley at its best during each season of the year. Kelly is primarily a painter although she also enjoys drawing, photography and graphic design. She currently teaches Drawing and 2D Design at Snow College and serves as the Art Department's webmaster and graphic designer. Kelly loves her garden, traveling, homemade soup and the muppets.

John Stevens was born in California, and grew up in Santa Barbara. Both his parents were involved in art and design and helped develop John’s artistic talents. He attended Santa Barbara City College and Brigham Young University for his Bachelors education in the Graphic and Exhibit Design. Right after college he worked for a number of design and illustration studios in California and Utah. In 1982 he started his own graphic design and photography studio where he created award winning design for a wide variety of local, regional and Fortune 500 clients. John has taught numerous workshops and has authored many industry articles for the design and photography trades. John has rekindled his artistic skills and ventured into the fine art world over the past 10 years, by painting large minimalist and abstract works. His work has been represented in a wide assortment of galleries throughout the West. John is a partner in a commercial art gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and is the Executive Director for the Spring City Arts organization.

Shauna, his wife, operates the Stevens Ranch equestrian training facility in Spring City also. She enjoys training horses and instructing students in various riding skills and ability levels.

John’s Website: www.jrstevens.com/art

Adam Bateman was raised in Ephraim, Utah, a place with more turkeys than sheep, more sheep than people, and more blue sky than anywhere. He was formally educated at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah with a BA in English and a Spanish Minor, and at Pratt Institute in New York City with an MFA in sculpture. He speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, and English and thinks that the fundamentals of language hold the secrets of the universe, life, and everything. He stacks things, arranges things, writes things, attaches things, shapes things, connects things. He likes big buildings as much as he likes the desert panoramas of Utah. In addition to Utah, he’s lived in New York City, Union City, NJ, and Guatemala City, and traveled all around the North/Western half of the world. He’s shown art in three countries, eight states, and fifteen cities. He is currently working as a professional artist, freelance curator, and Director of Birch Creek Service Ranch, an artist residency program, which he co-founded with Eric Peterson. He fully expects to change the world (Utah) by connecting regional art and artists with the larger contemporary art world and by making Utah a relevant and important center for contemporary art.
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Programs Committee Chair

Amy Jorgensen was born in 1972 in Milan, Italy. She received a BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1997, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 2002. Her work incorporates performance and photography with a willingness to use her own body as both test subject and subject matter in an investigation of personal and cultural assumptions. Her current work examines the body as both repository and author of information. Jorgensen has exhibited her photographs and videos nationwide and is currently working remotely in Utah.

Jeff Lambson is curator of contemporary art at the BYU Museum of Art. Prior to coming to Utah he worked at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC for six years, where he worked on projects including the major Ana Mendieta retrospective which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and an upcoming retrospective on Guillermo Kuitca co-organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Miami Art Museum, which will travel to the Guggenheim Bilbao. Jeff is currently writing a brief biography for Kuitca which will be included in the exhibition catalog.

Jeff is married to Ann Lambson, former director of youth education at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, and lives in Provo with their precocious daughter.