Team Category: Instructors

Lucy Sundby has been performing for over 25 years. Improv is her passion, and she has trained with Jimmy Carrane, The Improv Nerd and at Chicago City Limits in New York City. She also took a Sketch writing intensive, twice, with Kevin MacDonald from The Kids in The Hall. She co-created the Musical Improv group Oops We’re a Troupe, of which she is the Artistic Director. Other acting credits include plays and Musicals such as: The World Premiere of Dexter The Improv Musical, Nunsense, Mame, Steel Magnolias, The Altruists, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Cabaret and many more.

Affectionately known as The PhDiva because she is a classically trained soprano with a PhD from Harvard, Dr. April Lynn James first got into card crafting and collage through her voice teacher. She creates both physical and digital designs, some of which grace products in her Zazzle online store. She enjoys using her varied artistic skills to help adults recover their innate joy and vitality.
Originally from the Northwest Chicago suburbs, Bob Ahrens has been a graphic artist just as the words Desktop Publishing was becoming known. His first introduction to the Macintosh computer and graphic software started in 1990 when he was hired as an Informational Graphic Artist for The Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois. It was there he won his first award for Informational Graphics.
He would spend most of his career working at newspapers around the Chicago area including as an Informational Graphics Editor. After a short stint at a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina he would be hired by USA TODAY in early 2001. There he would work on news graphics covering the 9/11 attacks to the repair of the Hubble Space Telescope.
His expertise was in creating 3D models, interactive informational graphics and game reviews.
His software experience has been in the Adobe Creative Suite, Corel Painter, Lightwave (3D) and Blender (3D).

Sarah Dibeler, a Florida native, is a dedicated educator with a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Florida Gulf Coast University. With six years of experience working with children and three teaching endorsements, Sarah is committed to creating enriching learning environments that inspire young minds to thrive. Outside of the classroom, Sarah spends her time practicing watercolor painting, polymer clay jewelry making, and sewing.

Hello and ALOHA!
I’m pleased to introduce myself to you! My name is Heidi Endress and I have an extensive background in the visual arts as a teacher, mentor, coach, and therapeutic arts program director and facilitator.  I live with passion and with the aloha spirit and vibes.  I love all that life on this planet gives us, I have a deep respect for nature and it’s beauty,,, and a deep desire to serve others.

My AA Degree is in Commercial Art, as early on, I had a passion for creating unique ways to express thoughts, ideas, emotions, and a true passion for the visual gifts that attach themselves to visual art.  I have an extensive knowledge of art history, as well.

For the past 35 years, I’ve been blessed to be an Elementary Educator, teaching classes ranging from Pre-K through 5th grade, and excelling in ART for the past 9 years.  I have been the Art Director for an Elementary school for the last 9 years, worked as an art teacher at the Alliance for the Arts during their amazing summer camp, and have been a traveling Art Director for an outstanding company known globally.  I have also been blessed with coaching high school students in sports, helping them conquer the mental game, as well as the physical.

On my own time, I have my own Therapeutic Art Life Coaching business. (Art Waves of Positive Energy) I truly believe that art is healing…for anything and everything. Combining art with techniques and strategies that improve our wellness is a fabulous way to balance things in our lives.
I hold private art / craft sessions and painting lessons for adults, teens, and Elementary ages. When I have some quiet time, you’ll find me painting ocean, landscape, and abstract art, enjoying therapeutic art techniques, and brainstorming fun, new, and unique ways to implement them in my practice.

Art is a vital way to express our dreams, goals,, and is a beautiful and constructive way to release emotions, both positive and on the challenging side.  Art is a natural remedy for happiness, calmness, and assists our mind and physical bodies in being centered and at peace in the moment.  It’s a perfect way to reflect inner growth, self-esteem and awareness, and self-love.  Art is a perfect way to celebrate similarities, to see diversity among one another, and it’s a beautiful way to build social skills, collaborations, and friendships.

I am a true believer that art can change moods, thoughts, and our life.  On the professional side of art, besides being a certified Therapeutic Art Life Coach, I proudly hold a Florida Educator’s Teaching Certificate for K-12 Art and teaching K-6. Meeting the needs of all my students and clients in their life events with color & creative expression is what I strive for during each session. I firmly believe when we blend art into our world, it creates harmony on so many different levels. Peace and harmony can reflect in our masterpiece at hand, quite like life does to the heart and soul.  We can capture moments that quiet the mind, ease the burdens and worries, and produces positive projects.

I also have social platforms to enhance every day life events, challenges, and celebrations with shared experience, a joy for living on the positive side, and seeing life as endless opportunities to enhance each day with growth, renewal, and vibrant avenues to stretch the thinking and the creative side of life.  Check out Waves of Positive Energy on Instagram, FaceBook, Threads, and Tik Tok. (Art Waves of Positive Energy is on Facebook and Instagram) I upload clips daily to the life coaching pages to enhance the good vibes for your