Mitch Fry's father Collin Lee was a professional artist and his Illinois upbringing afforded him the opportunity to take art classes as the Art Institute of Chicago. But his first career was in designing and building custom theme restaurant interiors and furniture.
Return ing to art, he began exploring the role of the sphere. Keenly aware of the importance of “green art” he took the notion of using materials that were frequently discarded, such as old pallets and using that material in his carefully designed, large-scale spheres—taking castoffs and creating perfection.