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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.
Andrea Taylor, Treasurer
Andrea Taylor brings deep roots and a lifelong connection to the Ignacio and Bayfield communities. Her grandfather was the first Buffalo Soldier to arrive in the Ignacio area, and she has proudly called this region home for most of her life.
A passionate supporter of community engagement, Andrea has participated in numerous local sports leagues and has served on several nonprofit boards. She holds a degree in Business Administration with a minor in Marketing and brings over 20 years of experience from her work at the Sky Ute Casino. During her time there, Andrea developed a wide range of business skills while working across multiple departments.
Andrea is excited to contribute to the Dancing Spirit Board and is especially interested in helping generate new revenue ideas to support the center’s mission. With her background and dedication to the local community, she is committed to helping Dancing Spirit thrive and achieve its goals.
Carrie Bergfalk, Secretary
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, Member at Large
Mikayla Robinson's bio and photo will be coming soon!
Gene Jaques, Member at Large
Gene's bio will be coming soon!
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, Margie Coates, Jakob Box
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.
Shawna Hein, Open Studio Supervisor
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, Betty Nunes, Kayla Musa
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