In The Act

Susan Barnett is an avocational cellist and photographer. She has served as curator for the Yellowstone and Erie Art Museums, and worked at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Cedarburg Cultural Center, and Milwaukee Art Museum. She has also served as an executive director, founded a gallery and framing business, and worked as an independent curator and nonprofit board consultant.

Dorothy McElroy is a certified grief support specialist, end of life doula and archery instructor who has spent the past five decades doing grief differently. Through her nonprofit Worldwide Dragon Shooting Day, she helps children and adults who have been affected by grief and trauma. Come spend some time with her and learn how you can slay dragons for yourself and help others slay theirs. Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/-kDTK23WulA

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Marilyn Montemayor started cooking to help a friend cater a party 45 years ago. Soon after, she began fielding requests from others to cook in their homes and was both surprised and pleased to realize she was good at it. She continued to cook in people’s homes intensively until retiring at 65. Today, she teaches cooking classes as a volunteer for Uptown Social, Mead Public Library and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Mel Kolstad is an artist living in Fond du Lac who specializes in tiny and micro art created in large series. She is also an instructor who teaches others the joys of collage and printmaking. https://www.instagram.com/melkolstadart/ | https://www.facebook.com/melarthappenings | https://www.melkolstad.com | and you can subscribe to her newsletter One from You, One from Me here: https://mailchi.mp/183272a39507/onefromyouonefromme

Alexandra is a communication strategist who aspires to use communication as an instrument for positive social change by focusing on connecting people, organizations, and communities, and by building horizontal networks that base their interaction on respect for human dignity and love for the planet. A native of Bolivia, she is currently the lead strategist and a partner of the Sheboygan-based idea works, providing consulting services in organizational identity and brand development.

Andre Walton is a Milwaukee native who moved to Sheboygan and now sits on the Sheboygan Common Council, Mead Library Board of Trustees and is Executive Director of the nonprofit social justice organization Our Wisconsin Revolution. http://ourwisconsinrev.com/

Sarah Baughman is an artist, student and deeply curious person. Baughman, who grew up in Sheboygan, has spent the past decade working at Paradigm Coffee & Music and volunteering at Goodside Grocery. https://instagram.com/art.biscuits

Natasha L. Torry is a Wisconsin native who has been pursuing justice for the underrepresented in our community for over two decades. She is employed as a lawyer and municipal court judge, works hard as a mother of 5 children and plays at cooking, exploring nature and challenging herself with new adventures. Natasha believes that loving with an open heart is the only way to fully live this life. She can be found online at www.RootedLaw.com

Kathleen Quigley is a writer and massage therapist living in Wisconsin yet dreaming of Portugal. She has been published in Hypertext Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, The Seventh Wave, HerStry.blg, among others, and is currently completing a memoir. After pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago,

Kathleen took a hiatus to raise her son and run marathons. She loves all things purple and her crazy rescue dog.

Karen Robison is a botanist, teacher, artist and co-founder of Two Fish Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Elkhart Lake. She creates mixed-media and found-object works that bring disparate materials into a balanced form. She can be found online at www.twofishgallery.net and https://www.facebook.com/TwoFishElkhartLake