ABA November Monthly Member Highlight:
Tracings Graphics (Screen Printing, Embroidery, & Ad Specialties)
ABA November Monthly Member Highlight:
Tracings Graphics (Screen Printing, Embroidery, & Ad Specialties)
Every month we sit down with one of our amazing ABA members to get to know them a little better! For November, wespoke with Tracy Chrisenton-Lionetta of Tracings Graphics. We ask each member the same questions, providing an opportunity for our members to highlight the important work that they do in our communities. If you’re an ABA Member and would like to be considered for future Monthly Member Highlights, please reach out to us via email at info@altonbusinessassociation.com
Q: Tell us about your business?
A: We offer screen printing, embroidery, banners and signage, ad specialty items, and graphic design services.
Q: Tell us about yourself:
A: Bill and I graduated from Alton Central School. I graduated from UNH and we started Tracings Art Gallery in 1988. We moved the business from Center Harbor to Rivers Bend in Alton in 1990. In 1991 we switched gears from the gallery and my teaching art lessons, to focus on screen printing. Bill is a veteran, volunteered with Parks and Rec, coached many sports teams over the years, and currently has a passion for fishing both competitively and volunteering to introduce the sport to youth. He also has a computer business where he builds, repairs, and educates some of his clients on safe computer practices.
Q: How did your business get started?
A: It started in 1991 after moving our art gallery/frame shop in Senter’s Market, Center Harbor, NH, to Rivers Bend Professional Building and switched to screen printing. We outgrew that location and built Tracings as it stands today on Drew Hill Road in 2002.
Q: What has your relationship with the Alton Business Association done for you or
your business?
A: We are still new to the ABA but love that the local businesses are coming together under its umbrella.
Q: What do you value most about this community?
A: The quality of life here.
Q: Why did you want to open your business in this community?
A: Bill and I grew up here in Alton and chose to stay to raise our own family here.
Q: What business accomplishment are you most proud of?
A: Helping our client family bring their ideas together to producing products they can be proud of.
Q: What does the future hold for you and your business?
A: Tracings has continued to grow from just myself in 1991 having Bill come in board full time shortly after starting, to five of us currently employed. We expanded into embroidery a year ago, and that too continues to grow. We are working with clients from across the country and look forward to continued growth.
Q: What is one piece of advice you wish you had as a new business member?
A: Be patient and know that to be successful it will take a lot of hours and hard work but the rewards can be wonderful. The people we’ve met through the business over the years feel like extended family.
Q: How can people who want to learn more about you or your business get in
touch with you?
A: Our website and Facebook pages are a great way to access additional info-www.tracingsgraphics.com
Facebook: Tracings Graphics & Screenprinting
Email or stop in.
