Welcome, Wayne Savage! Our New Studio Coordinator at Passion Works!
Passion Works Studio is pleased to introduce our new Studio Coordinator, Wayne Savage. Wayne brings a rich background in the arts spanning more than 30 years of practice, implementation and innovation. As an artist, Wayne Savage sculpts buildings and life scenes from Styrofoam. He is also an experienced painter and clay sculptor, poet and a [...]
Passion Works Studio Coordinator Retires
Congratulations and best wishes to Joyce Frank, who will retire from the Passion Works Studio Coordinator position on March 31, 2011. Joyce has been employed by the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities for over 26 years. Initially hired in 1984 as a Job Coach with Atco Job Placement Services, (the newly created community employment [...]
Congratulations to Lead Artist, Wendy Minor Viny and Family!
We are so happy to help Wendy and her family announce the birth of their baby girl-Nina Sparrow Viny. Wendy and her family are all coming along well following a speedy home delivery! We miss you in the studio and send love and best wishes to you all!
Staff Highlights: Where to begin?!?
There’s something about the energy of summertime that invites change and stirs things up. Here at Passion Works Studio we’re seeing that to be true! First of all, we bid a fond farewell to Production Artist, Max Wheeler as he moves on to travel the Northeast United States as a sales associate for a poster [...]
Featured Staff Member for July, Amy Fronek
Please join Atco and Passion Works staff in welcoming our newest staff member, Amy Fronek! Amy’s is our new Customer Service Representative for online and call-in orders. She has a rich background in customer care and has taken to her new assignments with ease and grace. We’re so pleased to have Amy with us as [...]
New Feature on Our Passion Works Website
The Passion Works website is always changing. One visit can never cover all the new stories and information that Todd Jacops, our graphic designer, is adding on a daily basis. Along with new products this month, you can also meet the Passion Works Artists-in-residence and Art Production Assistants. These are the studio choreographers; the people [...]
Our Featured Staff Member for the Month of June is Laurie Gregg!
In my book, Laurie Gregg has the toughest job in the house. She’s the reality-check gal who does everything she can to insure accuracy in inventory, sales reports, daily register receipts and yearly balances. Laurie is the one who looks and time and materials that go into every product and piece of fine art to [...]
Featured Staff for the Month of May: Carol Sanborn, Freda Balch and Shannon Tipton, Passion Works Production Support-Staff from Atco, Inc.!
Passion Works is a division of Atco, Inc., the training and employment center for adults with disabilities. In many ways, Atco and Passion Works are one big team with the same goal of inspiring and liberating the human spirit through the arts. This month, we honor the inspiring work of Carol Sanborn, Freda Balch and [...]
Featured Staff Member: Joyce Frank
Multi-talented Passion Works Studio Coordinator, Joyce Frank is our featured Passion Works staff member for the month of March and she so deserves the spotlight! Joyce has been wearing lots of hats for the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities over the past twenty-five years. She does it all, including grant writing, fielding questions about [...]
Staff Spotlight: Todd Jacops
Todd Jacops is the Graphic Artist at Passion Works Studio. He uses his technical expertise and extreme creativity to introduce Passion Works to audiences close and far away through his skillful development of the Passion Works web site, newsletter, brochures and products. Todd received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University with a [...]
Meet Our New Collaborators
A big welcome to Christine Chandler Miles. Christine, a woman of many talents and titles, (including retired preschool special education teacher of 32 years and designer of the Athens City Flag), holds a BFA and M.Ed. from Ohio University and is a certified gemologist. Christine works as both an Artist-in- Residence and a Production Aide [...]
Adiós y mejores deseos
Goodbye and best wishes go out to Zack Gemmell. Zack, an Ohio University graduate and lead singer for Octoberfist, has been a production artist in the studio the past two years. While here he assembled art products, provided outstanding customer service and was an all-around great guy. Zack will be moving to Mexico City, Mexico [...]
