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Jesika Lopez, Operations Manager
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Meredith Koloski: Yoga, Bio coming soon
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Heather Fox: Heather is a NY transplant, recently graduated with honors from
Muhlenberg College receiving a BA in Dance and Media Communications. She
has been teaching dance for five years in Westchester, NY and Allentown, PA.
For the last two years Heather has organized and volunteer taught a Dance Club,
for an inner city Allentown elementary school. Her dance training and performing
began at the age of 3. Training includes jazz, ballet, modern, hip-hop, and tap in
both NYC and Westchester, NY. Heather is also a certified group exercise and
fitness instructor. As a teaching artist, Heather encourages creativity, expression,
and overall well-being through dance. She is very excited to be joining the
ACPPA family.
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Stephanie Land received her Master’s Degree in Dance Education from Temple
University and her Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Dance and Music from
Muhlenberg College. Her graduate research and thesis focus on the importance
of creating and nurturing a healthy dancing body that connects the mind, body
and spirit as well as a concentration on female dancers and body image. She has
taught within the Philadelphia School District as a full-time middle school dance
teacher, choreographed work for the Philadelphia High School for Girls and has
taught ballet, jazz, tap and hip hop for various dance studios throughout the
Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley regions. Currently, Stephanie is a ballroom dancer
and instructor for the Arthur Murray Franchise Dance Studio in Narberth, is the
resident choreographer for Pottsgrove High School and a receptionist at the
Abington Family Chiropractic Center.
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Kelly Wardlow: Kelly has been an engineer and a teacher, but is now a crafty,
business-y mom to two beautiful girls. Kelly combines her love of all things
mathematical with art to create great cartoons and magna!
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Christine Kenny: Christine has a BA in Early and Elementary Education from
Widener University. She spent 7 years as a Special Instructor working one on
one with developmentally delayed children ages 3-5 years old in the Philadelphia
area. Currently a stay at home mom, Christine is looking forward to returning to
the classroom.
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Meghan Meehan: Meghan is from Acton MA and recently earned her BS in
Dance from Muhlenberg College. She trained for 10 years in classical Ballet, Jazz,
and Modern dance at the Acton School of Ballet and attended summer intensives
at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Chautauqua Institute, The Kirov Academy of
Ballet, and Dance Place in Charlotte NC
At Muhlenberg, Meghan was a member of the Muhlenberg Dance Association,
under the tutelage of Executive Directors Karen Dearborn and Charles Anderson,
and she was a member of Six Meters, an improvisational dance ensemble. In the
Spring of 2008 she studied abroad in Arezzo, Italy, at La Accademia Dell’Arte
where she concentrated in traditional Italian folk dance, as well as Modern dance
and Choreography. As a member of Muhlenberg Dance Association, she
choreographed several pieces, including “The Art of What’s In Between”,
performed as part of Dance Emerge, and “La Malattia del Diavolo,” inspired by
her study in Italy.
Meghan’s life long passion of the arts includes drawing and painting which she
also studied throughout high school and college.
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Amy M Grebe: Amy is the artistic director and founder of ACPPA Artists
Cooperative. After earning a BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University, Amy
spent time in Pittsburgh and Northern Virginia teaching dance and designing
costumes for dance and theater. She has been resident costumier for both Point
Park College and Castaways Repertory Theater.
After the birth of her daughter, Amy returned to the Philadelphia area to
continue to designing costumes for local dance choreographers as well as develop
her art career.
She is a published children's book illustrator and has won several awards in the
Greater Philadelphia Region for her artwork.
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KC Agneta: Sewing 101, K.C. grew up in Illinois and Missouri and attended the
University of Kansas School of Fine Arts where she received a BFA in Design.
She moved to the Philadelphia area in 2000, and worked in the printing industry
for several years before the birth of her daughter. In 2006 she became a stay at
home mom and also started her own line of handmade accessories for moms and
kids called The Diaper Bag Wrangler. In 2008 she was diagnosed with breast
cancer and used her passion for sewing and design as a creative outlet during her
treatment regimen.
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