Paul Abegg is Director of Strings at Dixie State College where he teaches violin and viola, coaches string chamber music, and conducts the Dixie State Symphony Orchestra. He holds degrees from Michigan State and Brigham Young Universities. Dr. Abegg has presented master classes at Eastern Washington University, Whitworth College, Western Kentucky University, Utah Valley University, and Brigham Young University Idaho and served as an adjudicator at numerous competitions and festivals in Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Utah, and Washington. His students have won awards and have graduated to attend prestigious music schools. As concertmaster of the Southwest Symphony he brings the experience of playing with Utah, Phoenix, Lansing, Ballet West, Kalamazoo, and Spokane Symphonies. His summers are spent teaching at the New England Music Camp in Maine.

Gail Bunker was appointed to the City Council on April 8, 2004. She has a varied art background in dance, choreography, piano and organ and has worked at Dixie State College in Cultural Activities since 1985. She is the Concert Manager for Celebrity Concert Series, the Tanner Amphitheater Summer Series and is Executive Director of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra and Chorale. Gail has served on several state and local panels including President of Utah Presenters, President of the Southwest Guild for the Performing Arts; Chair of the Southern Utah Folklife Festival; co-chair of the Zion Canyon Jazz and Art Festival; Board member of the Homeowners Magazine publication; Cancer Gala committee; member of the Utah Arts Council Change Leader program. She is currently the treasurer for Utah Presenters, Finance Chair of the CCS Guild; a member of the DSC Development Committee and member of the DSC Public Relations panel. City Council assignments include the St. George Arts Commission, the Dinosaur Discovery Site advisory board, Pioneer Center for the Arts and the St. George Historic Committee. She loves living in Dixie with its breathtaking beauty, climate and the friendliness and warmth of the people. She feels the main challenge facing the city is sensitivity and sustainability in managing growth and in balancing development and the environment. She wants to work hard to see that growth does not compromise the things that make this area so special. She wants to see newcomers welcomed as part of the community not isolated within it and businesses established that encourage people to live and work in the community. Gail is involved in her church and has served in many capacities including Stake and Ward Relief Society President, Young Women President and Primary President among others. She is married to R. Lynn Bunker, a retired businessman who was a member of the Board of Trustees for Vegas Village in Las Vegas, Nevada. They are parents to twelve children whom they adore.

Kathy Cieslewicz serves as the art curator for the Dixie State College, Sears Art Museum. She received an associate's degree from Dixie State College and a Bachelor's degree in art from Southern Utah State University. Most recently, Kathy was invited to create an installation artwork for the St. George Art Museums Zion exhibit. She has won many awards, shown work at the Springville Art Museum, and as she continues to pursue her own art, she promotes the growth and development of artists and the art community in Southern Utah.

Ferron Holt was born and raised in Southern Utah in the small town of Enteprise. From an early age he developed talents and set goals to become involved in music in his life. Graduating with honors from Enterprise High School and College from Southern Utah State University with Degrees in Music Education in Instrumental and Choral Teaching he included a Spanish major and a Masters of Education with Public Education Administration Endorsement from Utah State University. Education was broken up with a stint during the Vietnam War with the US Army where he served as a Sargent in a Rifle Squad in the 3rd Infantry and as an Assistant Drill Sargent at Ft. Lewis Washington. After college graduation, his first teaching assignment was with Millard County Schools where he directed the growth of a small band into a major part of the curriculum at Delta Middle and High Schools. Coming to Washington County in 1980 he began teaching band at Dixie Jr. High School. He has been a part of the tremendous growth in the area that now has 43 public education schools. After 25 years of teaching music he accepted the offer to coordinate all of the Fine Arts for the school district. For the past 8 years with the help of superior teachers, supportive administrators and parents that want quality Arts Education, he has been a part of one of the strongest Fine Arts Teaching Teams in the State of Utah. Many Awards have come their way including Music, Art and Drama Teachers of the year, Arts Administrators of the year for the State of Utah and the Western United States. State and National recognition have been received for outstanding Fine Arts Programs developed in Public Education. Superior achievement of students recognized regionally, statewide and nationally show the excellence that has developed in the Fine Arts Classroom Instruction. With all of this growth has come the opportunity to be involved in many start-up special interest Arts Committees and Associations. He enjoys lending a hand in these groups representing not only the school fine arts programs but also his love of the area and the contribution that quality Fine Arts Activities can have on our quality of life. Although he and his wife Linda, 5 children and 13 grandchildren all reside in Washington City, he has served on the St. George City Arts Council since its early beginnings representing the fine arts education system in the Washington County Schools.

Shane Prine was appointed to the St. George Arts Commission in March 2008. He currently teaches in the Visual Technologies and Art Departments at Dixie State College, where he has been since 2006. Prior to landing in Saint George, Shane was completing his MFA in drawing and photography at Washington State University. Originally from the southeast (GA), Shane received a BA in Art from Valdosta State University then moved on to Nashville, TN. There, he cut his teeth as an artist, graphic designer and art director with a wide variety of experiences in advertising and music-industry design before beginning to teach as an adjunct design and photography professor at various educational institutions in the area. After his first semester in the classroom, he was hooked on teaching and the intrinsic benefits that come with the discipline of showing others how to learn.