What are artists creating with your products?
All on Board “Texture is trending,” says Jack Dempsey, Crescent Cardboard’s “Creative Disruptor.” “Every year we launch new mat board products, and texture is…
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Spot On
The Paint Spot art materials store in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. For more than two-thirds of that time, Kim…
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Making a Splash in St. Louis
As owner of Artmart, St. Louis’s Creative Marketplace and Frame Center, Keith Baizer is known around town as the “Mayor of Creativity.” His 63-year…
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In the Tank
Six years ago, I bought a diesel-powered SUV. One of the reasons I chose it was that it was classified as a “clean diesel…
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The Art of Holiday Gift Selling
Showcase a trend Adult coloring books are this year’s Rainbow Loom. They’re hot, and everyone is buying them – not just artists. If you…
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Arts Integration Takes on STEAM
Sacrificing music, art and theater in today’s schools in favor of more science, engineering and math continues in hot debate, but educators, administrators and…
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Denver’s One-Stop Design Shop
The Guiry brothers opened their first paint and wallpaper store in Denver in 1899. It was still the Wild Wild West, where “drive-by shootings”…
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What Counts in Customer Analytics
In the art materials retail biz, every customer (and customer’s opinion) counts. Every customer interaction counts. Certainly, every dollar spent on keeping customers happy…
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Show and Tell
Each year during the first day of NAMTA’s trade show, retailer Andrew Preston and his posse of scouts fan out across the exhibit floor…
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Hitchin’ a Ride
by Kevin Fahy I got my first driver’s license when I was 16 years old, but it took me three years to save…
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