Your Stores

02/27/2023 Manny’s Art Supplies gets a fresh look while remaining true to its customers. By Victoria Ritter   Nestled in New Paltz, N.Y., located…

9/20/2022 Seemingly overnight, a profusion of independent stores that sell secondhand art-and-craft supplies have cropped up across the nation. They report growing success. With…

06/25/2021 This is a story about two art-materials stores in two very different communities on opposite sides of the country. Because creating art is…

03/01/2021 Meet Peggy Gomez, owner of Gomez Art Supply in Lincoln, Nebraska. by Tina Manzer She has a BFA from the University of Nebraska…

10/13/2020 Two Art Store Startup Stories by Tina Manzer 1 What Dana Vingris calls “spitballing,” others would call “strategic life-planning.” Her big ideas become…

06/29/2020 Milk social media for all its worth Find out what platforms your customers follow and keep posting. Devise a posting schedule and stick…

03/10/2020 by Tina Manzer Relatively speaking, it’s a small store in a small market, but over the years Nevada Fine Arts (NFA) in Reno…

07/19/2019 by Tina Manzer   Hyatt’s – All Things Creative in Buffalo, New York, celebrated its 60th year in business by moving to a…

04/24/2019 by Tina Manzer It’s a good question. A few years ago, Canadian artist Elizabeth Reoch’s asked it; wondering how society was connecting to…