![]() Membership confers both the use of the studio and a discount on workshops. ![]() “You get a key and you have access anytime you want,” Hancock-Tomek said. A person can join at a cost of $75 a month, if they commit to a year’s membership. The studio operates unlike any other arts organization in the area. “Definitely, in the last 10 years or more, it’s just been Sheri doing almost everything.” “It seems like she was always there, whether she was in a management position or not,” Trainor said. She has worked as a volunteer since then. Her unwritten job description encompasses everything from bookkeeping to scheduling exhibitions and workshops to keeping the studio tidy.įor a little while, when she first started at Two Rivers, Hancock-Tomek received a salary, but it soon became clear to her that the studio couldn’t afford it. It also will enable Wardlaw to keep the studio running without worrying about the financial management.įinding one person to replace Hancock-Tomek would be nearly impossible, Trainor said. AVA was the fiscal agent for Two Rivers when it first opened. Such an arrangement would bring the studio full circle, said Sheryl Trainor, who is on the Two Rivers board and also works at AVA. The studio has hired a new manager, in the person of Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Natalie Wardlaw.īut the studio’s board is talking to leaders of AVA Gallery and Art Center about taking over the studio’s financial management. In addition to the exhibition, the longtime manager’s departure is engendering some momentous change at the printmaking studio. There is no reception planned, but the studio is open 2 to 6 p.m. She has for years been a maker of solarprints, often of abstract natural shapes, and lately has been using Styrofoam as a printing medium. Soon, though, the studio will be under new management: Hancock-Tomek and her family are planning to move from Hanover back to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where both she and her husband, Ivan Tomek, grew up and her mother and his parents, among other relatives, still live.Īs a celebration of her years of oversight and of her own artwork, the studio is hosting an exhibition of Hancock-Tomek’s recent prints. There are often novice printmakers learning to use the presses and other machinery, and there are workshops and other events to wrangle, at least when there’s no pandemic. “Having a manager there is key,” Hancock-Tomek said this week. Housed in the Tip Top Media Arts Building on North Main Street, Two Rivers is a smallish, workmanlike place, but it has had great staying power, and that is attributable in no small part to the work of Sheri Hancock-Tomek, who has managed the studio for most of its history. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION - Among the local arts organizations that have grown up over the past two decades, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio is often overlooked. ![]()
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