Ada SchenckViolin Making & Repair ‘22
What's the most important thing you've learned at NBSS?
One of the most important things I’ve learned at NBSS is to look at my work with a critical, unbiased eye, and to separate my work from myself.
What’s the strangest/most interesting job you've ever had?
Most interesting job I’ve had was as a master dyer, weaver, and embosser for a business that makes historical reproduction fabrics by hand. My work is in a number of major museums.
What's something about you that surprises people?
I know a startling amount about major league baseball.
What's your favorite place to be?
Put me in a wood shop, outside on a mountain, or in front of a wood stove with a good book, and I am very happy.
What did you do before coming to NBSS?
I was a professional hand weaver, and simultaneously a homeschooled high schooler.
Hometown: Calais, VT