Artist/printmaker, Vicky Tomayko, was born in Detroit Michigan in 1955. She received a BFA from Wayne State University in 1977. In 1978 she was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant for the Arts. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University in 1979. Tomayko was an assistant professor of art, teaching printmaking, at Connecticut College in New London, CT from 1979 to 1981. She moved to Provincetown in 1982. Tomayko was awarded a fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1985-86. Currently she teaches printmaking at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Fine Arts Work Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans, a community based middle school.

Vicky Tomayko’s art focuses on fantasy in the natural world and the complexity of rural life. A printmaker and storyteller, her work explores the narrative potential in one-of-a-kind images produced as drawings, monotypes, dry points, and paintings. Tomayko’s prints are compelling and colorful results of this accomplished artist’s abilities to integrate the joy of color with accuracy and narrative prompts. Besides the local landscape, Tomayko sites Louise Bourgeois and Charles Burchfield as major sources of artistic inspiration. Tomayko populates her landscapes with fantastic, friendly creatures with personalities rooted in watchfulness, humor, and the conflicts of living in a changeable world. Narratives are an integral part of the imagery, though they are used as prompts and guides rather than explanations. Characters reappear in successive works, examining the geology of shifting sands and waters.