MEET THE WANA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Wina Poliquin, President
Wina has been an Osoyoos local for 18 years. Born on the Canadian East coast to a French Canadian family of artists, raconteurs, and musicians, she developed an early incline for all art forms .
Trilingual by the age of 16 she explored 13 different countries in the Americas where she got connected to various cultural roots .
She is the operator of Art Therapy Corp, where she practices the sacred art of body piercing and surrounds herself with various types of tattooers and body art practitioners. You can also find her supporting local /national artists next door at The Curator. Mother, dancer, vintage stylist
and percussion player, there are many colors and layers to her world.
Wina is the visionary creator,founder, and establisher of the Wide Arts National Association. The term Cultural Animator has been brought up many times during her life to describe her. She believes that we come here to create and that art forms are the vessel to open ourselves to our own creative journey to better our collective experience.
Meagan Young-Bibby, Vice President
With 15 years of artist, event and business management experience, and an educational background in Arts Management, Communications, and Marketing, Meagan brings a well-rounded approach to project management. As one of the founding members of the All Hallows Festival, and the Osoyoos Artisan Christmas Market, Meagan leads the curation and creation of the artisan market initiative, sourcing quality artisans and arranging festival layout. Through her work in hospitality, Meagan assists in procurement of key sponsorships for WANA events, ensuring our artists are welcomed and taken care of, for a comfortable, positive working experience. As an avid traveler, Meagan has lived in 3 countries, visited everywhere from small coastal villages to big cities, and loves nature adventures with her husband Ian and pupper Marvin.
Jenn Bruyer, Director
Jenn is a life long artist and who for the last 15 years has specialized in aerial dance and circus arts. She has coached, choreographed and performed around the world including over 30 US states, China, Italy, Germany, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico.
As an Aerial Coach, she seeks to provide the highest quality progressive instruction to aerialists of all abilities from novice to professional performer. Her mission as a human is to cultivate a warm, non-judgmental learning environment that fosters community, to build physical and emotional strength within the individuals who participate in this environment and methodically construct a vehicle by which to create art.
Amy Sztupovszky, Treasurer
Amy grew up in the South Okanagan and has lived in this unique part of the world for most of her life. Although she has traveled extensively both before having children and with her family in tow, she keeps coming back to this beautiful valley, now calling Oliver her home. Amy's passions include yoga, travel, community building, good food, entrepreneurship, and alternative education. Amy's love of sharing the healing path of yoga led her to open a yoga studio in Oliver, Wild Daisy Yoga. Her love of organic, sustainable food led her to create her own small business, Hungry Frog Organics. And Amy's love of travel led her and her husband to a worldschooling path with their children, using travel as a way to home-educate their two boys who have now slow-traveled to 19 countries. The connections she and her family made traveling led her to be the Event Coordinator at a yearly conference for families who travel as a lifestyle, held in a different country each year. After volunteering at several WANA events, Amy stepped up to take a more active role on the Board of Directors offering the skills she has developed in business ownership, event planning, and living the philosophy of yoga to create more amazing, community-building events in the South Okanagan.
