PANKRATZ ARTS EXCHANGE

Mary has experienced that yoga is a relationship between the body, breath, mind, spirit, and heart. It is for every “body”. It brings the student on a journey to better physical and emotional health. Yoga works!

She first practiced yoga 20 years ago as a way to bring balance to her life as a classroom teacher and mother of two young children. She began sharing her passion for yoga with others in the past six years. This brought the merging of two careers as a nurse and then as a classroom teacher. This wellness career path of yoga and mindfulness allows her to lead others in the practice of living a fuller life.

Accomplishing her RYT 200 at Perennial Wisdom and Meditation in Madison in May 2016, followed a dedicated practice for the previous 5 years. It was a desire she sought to deepen her own practice, merge her two past careers, and obtain the skills to guide others to finding their optimal health, vibrancy, and true self in a world that challenges authenticity.

Mary seeks to make yoga accessible for all of her students, provide opportunities within her community for yoga, and connect her professional paths to cultivate well-being in those who share their yoga practice with her.

She has experience working with children, teens, adults, seniors, cancer survivors, synchronized skating teams, school events on Mindfulness and Yoga, and students on the autism spectrum. She has shared her experience at the Twisted Warrior, Agnesian Healthcare, The Boys and Girls Club, the YMCA, the Goodman Community Center in Madison, and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; incorporating mindfulness and yoga. She provides workshops on Mindfulness and Meditation as well.

Mary brings an open heart, warmth, compassion, and energy to her teaching.

Yoga is a journey. Step on your mat and join her in a practice that cultivates your best life.

Danielle has been teaching art K-12 in the Howards Grove School District for the past 16 years. She teaches a wide age-range of students and a comprehensive curriculum which includes all types of art media. Danielle is a Sheboygan-County native, St. Norbert College alumni, UW-LaCrosse Master’s degree recipient, and a National Board Certified Teacher. She loves being active (sports, outdoors, etc.) and traveling with my three sons, husband, and dog. Danielle enjoys digital graphic design but my heart loves to oil paint and sketch in pen when she has “me” time.

Kevin Flood has been involved with Pankratz Arts Exchange in many different facets since 2006, and he is excited to be adding "Arts Camp Instructor" to his list of titles! Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in Music Business/Management from Berklee College of Music, where he performed in Hairspray, Spring Awakening, an all-male a cappella group called the Y Chromotones, and much more.

Kevin recently music directed a production of Spring Awakening for Fond du Lac Community Theatre, and he is currently preparing for PAE's Summer Music Revue. He has also music directed the past two Christmas shows for PAE at The Shore Club in collaboration with Kiel Area Youth Theatre, and he looks forward to collaborating with creative young minds and sharing his passion for music and the arts.

Kevin currently works at Advanced Tooling in Mount Calvary and resides in Glenbeulah with his daughter, Harper.

Heather is a graduate of New Holstein High School and holds a Musical Theater Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rockford University. She has enjoyed experiences working with children in the arts with such companies as the YMCA, Northern Lights Playhouse, CLIMB Theatre, and more. Most recently, Heather has been actively involved on the artistic staff of Kiel Area Youth Theatre for three summers, including directing Willy Wonka Jr. and co-directing Annie Jr. In Minneapolis & Chicago, Heather performed as an actress, singer, and director. Heather is enthusiastic to be making new friends and collaborating with the Pankratz Arts Exchange.

Thomas Pibal eats, breathes and lives music, although sometimes he eats bacon and breathes air, too. Thomas plays 26 instruments, has a different hairstyle every day and lives to connect with, edify and inspire people through the amazing and transcendent art of organized sound.

Thomas has worked as the staff accompanist at Lakeland University and Silver Lake College, the rehearsal accompanist for the Sheboygan Symphony Chorus, the choir director at the University of Wisconsin - Fond Du Lac and band and choir director at Sheboygan Lutheran High School.

As a student, Thomas was a co-recipient of Lakeland College's "Outstanding Overall Music Student" award. While a member of Appleton based band “The Electra Color,” they were nominated for the Wisconsin Area Music Industry's "Best New Band" award in 2015. Thomas was nominated for the WAMI's "Keyboard Player of the Year" award in 2016. In 2017 Thomas wrote and produced his first soundtrack for a short film that was part of the Madison 48 hour film festival. The writing, recording and editing for the score all took place in the space of one day. The film received the award for "Best Original Score" and was runner up for the title of best overall film at the local festival.

In 2011 Thomas released his first album of original music and he continues to write, record, produce and release music from his home studio. Thomas plays drums in a jazz trio called “Jive Safely,” keyboards in the Fox Valley cover band “The Shin Diggs,” and is the lead singer/songwriter and keyboardist for the “Thomas Pibal Trio,” all three of which play all over Eastern Wisconsin. Thomas is a member of the Michibago Music Teachers Association and teaches private piano, voice, guitar, bass and percussion lessons in the Sheboygan Area. Thomas also works as a freelance accompanist for various high schools and theatre companies among other clients, and has also filled the role of rehearsal accompanist, music/vocal director and pit director for several musicals.

Jo is currently the art instructor at Chilton Elementary for grades K through four serving approximately 350 students a year. She is also the Elementary Coordinator for the Gifted and Talented. Jo is the FIRST Lego League coach for the MS; she coordinates the spelling bee, geography bee, and coach MS students for the Academic Bowl.

During the summer, Jo teaches art classes for Chilton Elementary summer school session, teach VBS for her church, and for the past four summers, she has been teaching at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan during the August session teaching drawing and Fiber Arts.

Jo is a certified Jazzercise instructor, and in her spare time, she loves to make art, garden, and just be home with her husband Tim, her children True and Tatum, and her dogs Blue and Maggie.

We had a blast getting creative with MONSTER CRAFTS