SAXTONS RIVER-Main Street Arts' (MSA) board of directors recently voted to promote former program director Ashley Storrow to executive director.
In a news release, MSA Board Chair Susan Still credits Storrow with transforming the organization into "the community arts center our board dreamed about. She embodies our MSA values of openness, playfulness, accessibility, and belonging. Her joyful presence is contagious! Ashley has proven herself capable of being a wise and effective executive director."
Storrow is both an arts administrator and a musical artist herself. The Putney resident performs around the region with her husband Putnam Smith in the folk duo The Early Risers. She is also a choral director, leading MSA's resident women's chorus, The Red Tent Singers.
The newly appointed executive director "approaches the job with great enthusiasm," wrote MSA representatives in a news release.
"Over the past year and half, I have enjoyed getting to know the people who make up Main Street Arts and design programs with their needs and interests at the core," said Storrow. She went on to say she's particularly excited about "new initiatives that focus on access by getting MSA teachers out in the community working with folks who are less likely to come through our doors."
Storrow said given that "art has the potential to heal and to bridge divides [...] I believe the arts are the core of ensuring everyone in our communities thrives."
To learn more about Main Street Arts' programs, visit mainstreetarts.org.
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