One of the ways The Rey Foundation reaches out to local communities in the Bearcamp Valley and surrounding the Sandwich Range is through its studios.
During their lives, Hans and Margret Rey each maintained studios next to their summer home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Hans had his writing and drawing studio that was decorated with the many things he collected from the forest (fungi and skeletal remains; a terrarium with mosses, ferns and newts; quartz crystal and a burl shaped like profile of Charles De Gaul). Margret had her pottery studio filled with finished and unfinished bowls, cups and ceramic animals.
Wikipedia describes a studio:
A studio is an artist’s or worker’s workroom, or an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio…
The word studio is derived from the Italian: studio, from Latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal.
The French term for studio, atelier, in addition to designating an artist’s studio is used to characterize the studio of a fashion designer. Atelier also has the connotation of being the home of an alchemist or wizard.
Currently, the Foundation works its wizardry by maintaining a Studio for Environmental Design a at The Community School in South Tamworth, NH. It also takes a studio “on the road” with its Chalk Talk sessions at the Tamworth Farmers Market and with Hospital Chalk Talks.
