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Meet the Board
Jenny Long, Board President
Jenny Long is an Ignacio Colorado resident who splits her time here with time spent in New Mexico. She has done volunteer work with near by non-profits and worked at Sky Ute Casino as well. She enjoys outdoors activities, reading and listening to music of all types, as well as experiencing new things and meeting new people. She is currently following her belief that yoga is very therapeutic and great exercise by completing a yoga training program.
Carrie Bergfalk, Treasurer
Dr. Carrie was born and raised in South Africa, where both her parents served as ministers and missionaries. The Bergfalk family moved to to New England when Dr. Carrie was 10 years old and lived there until she graduated from South Kingston High School in Wakefield, Rhode Island in 1977. She received her BA in Biology from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1981. She continued her studies at Life West Chiropractic College in the San Francisco Bay Area, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Salutatorian of her class in 1990. She practiced in San Francisco for 2 years before moving to Bayfield in 1992. She decided Bayfield was the perfect place to raise her daughter, Linnea, who was 14 months old when she moved here . She opened Pine River Chiropractic in May of 1993 and has been privileged to serve the Pine River Valley and surrounding areas for the past 29 years.
In her free time, Dr. Carrie loves to take walks with her 4 dogs, paddle board and camp at Navajo reservoir and SCUBA dive and travel as often as she can get away. She is an active and enthusiastic member of the Pine River Valley Centennial Rotary Club and Bayfield Chamber of Commerce. Fun Fact: Dr Carrie went skydiving in Moab on her 60th birthday!
Mikayla Robinson, Secretary
Mikayla Robinson's bio and photo will be coming soon!
Jakob Box, Member at Large
Jakob Box's bio and photo will be coming soon!
Margie Coates, Member at Large
What excites Margie Coates about ceramics is that she starts with earth, and through fire, water, and air, creates something both functional and beautiful. The elements are connected
through her pieces. She walks her journey with the mission to bring love and light to lift everyone up through connections. This is all the more reason to get centered on the pottery wheel. A dedicated teacher, Margie served special education students for her career of more than forty years. She has continued to instruct for local colleges and art centers. She has shared paths to increased wellness for almost twenty years. Originally from Florida, her mother was and artist and opened this world to her. She lived in the Atlanta, Georgia area for over twenty years, surrounded by incredible artists to take workshops and learn from. A self-taught potter, she began teaching ceramics and exhibiting in Winder,
Georgia in 1997. With art in her heart, she founded the Georgia Piedmont Arts Center, a non- profit community arts center. She exhibited in many galleries in Georgia. She and her husband moved to Southwest Colorado in 2004, enjoying the cowboy way with their horses and dogs. In Colorado, she was an artist in many galleries and shops in Durango, and the surrounding area. Since 2010, she was involved with Dancing Spirit Center for the Arts, a non- profit in Ignacio, Colorado where she was a founding artist, and taught pottery. She is still a Board Member at large and grant writer for them. In 2022, they moved with their Rhodesian Ridgebacks, across country to Sugar Grove, Virginia. Margie loves gardening and outdoor sports, and to be back in the beauty and inspiration of the Appalachian Mountains. As a Rotarian, she loves being a part of solutions for the community. As a health and wellness consultant, she is excited to share ways to live vibrantly. Keeping her hands in clay, she has been happily teaching monthly pottery workshops at Laurel Creek Pottery in Wytheville. In her creations, Margie endeavors to find balance in form, and value in function and expression. Her inspiration comes from her love of nature. Joy comes from the Elemental Connections she’s able to make.
After all, “A pot without soul is just some clay around a hole.”
To Our Past Board Members:
We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you so much .
Kasey Correia, Jon Zusy, Jodi Roser, Linda Givon, Scott Hagler, Kim Wilkins, Renee Graham, Meg McDonald, Jeff Odgen, Kymberlie Pierce, Dustin Pierce, Catherine Larkins, Melody Hedin, Eva Lewis, Ula Gregory, Shalina Luna, Linda Moore, Caryl Helmin, Anthony Box, Joanne Gannt
Meet the Staff
Kasey Correia, Executive Director & Art Instructor
Kasey Correia was born and raised in the east bay of California. With the help of her high school art teacher, she discovered a healthy way to express herself through art. She started creating pottery at Memorial High School where she graduated early with art honors. After high school she traveled the world both in a band and as a manager. She got a degree in music business and then later moved to Alaska to continue school at the University. While there, she studied as a electrical apprentice, got her pilots license and ended up joining an art group that lead to her becoming the owner of Tundra Arts, a co-op style artist's gallery. Through the many amazing opportunities and occurrences in her life, she developed a great love for community and the under-dogs and a desire to empower people. And when she moved to Ignacio Colorado and became one of the four founding members of Dancing Spirit Community Art Center, she was able to use the talent and knowledge she had gained to develop programs that focus on healing through the arts. Kasey loves flying small planes in Alaska, camping and her animals, and desires to help others discover the power of healing through art.
Cora Shubert, Executive Assistant
Cora Shubert, a Colorado native, has spent much of her life living between Durango and Pagosa Springs. She got her EMT certification in 2001, and then went on to study Early Childhood Education in college at both Adams State College and at Pueblo Community College. She worked with after school and summer programs, taught in several local pre-schools as well as a homeschool co-op, but ultimately chose to homeschool her four children and loves every minute of it.
She enjoys helping in the many communities she is a part of by teaching 1st Aid, CPR and Trauma Response as well as by being active in her church and coaching a growth mindset running club for children. She and her children enjoy learning, exploring and experiencing life together and spend their time taking martial arts and keeping up with the myriad of random projects (and animals) that are going on in their lives. Although she currently lives in Pagosa Springs, much of Cora's time is spent in Ignacio and she greatly enjoys the time she is able to spend working with the different organizations and people there.
Betty Nunes, Children's Program Instructor
Bio coming soon!
Shawna Hein, Art Instructor
Shawna Hein grew up primarily in the southern part of Denver. She took art classes nearly every semester in middle and high school, and even during her college years, she loved drawing the diagrams of her engineering homework and kept art as something fun to do. She received a BSE in Bioengineering from Arizona State University before moving to Utah where she later began learning pottery. Her first classes as an adult in Pottery were at Red Kiln in Salt Lake City, where she learned from some fantastic artists. She has experience with many different mediums and teaching some of them to Girl Scouts. Her motto is "Everything is an experiment." This is especially true in pottery where there are so many variables that can change. You never know what you are going to get until the piece you are working on is finished.
Shawna found Dancing Spirit Center for the Arts in October 2021, when places started opening up after COVID. She came to Ignacio because classes were full and began as a student just getting back into the swing of pottery and meeting new people. Since then, she has started teaching adult classes and keeps the Dancing Spirit studio in good working order.
Tammy Winterhawk, Teacher's Aid
Bio & photo coming soon
To Our Past Teachers and Our Support Staff:
The lives you touched will forever be grateful!
Harlene Russel, Margie Coates, Dominique Holling,
Bonnie Woodward, Kym Pierce, Katrina Jameson, Tim Murphy, and Eva Lewis, Marya Roddis, Cindy Humistan, Sandhya Tillotson, Catherine Larkins, Eva Lewis, Roberta Hall, Jessica Tarrant, Annie Butler
Sarah Wells Rolland
Join renowned ceramic artist Sarah Wells Rolland for a unique opportunity to learn from over 30 years of experience, while supporting the recovery of her art studio after Hurricane Helene.
Sarah will share the history of The Village Potters Clay Center and her journey of rebuilding, while demonstrating advanced techniques such as throwing, altering clay forms, creating handles, sculpting spouts, and incorporating movement and line into her pieces.
When: May 3-4, 2025. 10 AM - 4 PM
Where: Dancing Spirit Center for the Arts
465 Goddard Ave, Ignacio CO
Cost: $360, spaces are limited. Scholarships