Group Hug
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…
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Cardboard Robot
07/11/2022 by Miranda Bigham This “store for makers” is the antidote to half-baked ideas, unfinished to-do lists and “someday” hobbies. It challenges shoppers to…
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Coast to Coast
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…
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The Heart of the Art in Lincoln
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…
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The Plans were Perfect but the Timing was Off
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…
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Do: Retail Best Practices for a Pandemic and Beyond
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…
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the standout
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…
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Out of the Blue
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…
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What Art Movement are We In Today? An interview with B. Eric Rhoads.
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…
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rock lobster
02/07/2019 by Claire Sykes Keith Christy has followed his passion for the arts since high school, when he drew charcoal portraits of his friends…
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