Both Sides Now
If I call myself an optimist, people who know me will laugh. Friends and family think of me as someone whose outlook is generally…
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In Orlando: The Best of Both Worlds
03/04/2022 by Michael Nocella When the International Art Materials Trade Association (NAMTA) and the Association for Creative Industries (AFCI) merged under NAMTA in November…
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A Light Bulb Moment
03/04/2022 by Tina Manzer German industrial designer and engineer Curt Fischer invented some of the earliest examples of task lighting in 1919. One hundred…
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Artful Behavior: Quick, Agile, Original
03/04/2022 If you or your customers do any kind of art instruction, you’ll find Rick Alonzo’s experience painfully familiar. But don’t lose heart, his…
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Art Materials Retailer, Q4 – Buyers’ Guide Table of Contents
09/14/2021 by Tina Manzer Birds of a Feather Both fine artists and crafters appreciate a store’s deep selection of glues & adhesives. Products that…
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Art and Crafts and Change
09/14/2021 by Tina Manzer It’s going to happen. As this issue of Art Materials Retailer was being printed, the boards of AFCI and NAMTA…
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Clearing The (FRESH) Air
09/14/2021 by Tina Manzer Artists who record what they see outside often post on Instagram using #pleinair, #urbansketch and #urbansketching. But are those categories…
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Long Time Gone
09/14/2021 In 1968, a book was published that would have a profound effect on the course of world events. It was called, The Population…
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Artful Behavior
06/25/2021 100 Days is Not Forever – But it’s a lot by Tina Manzer Measuring accomplishments within a 100-day timeframe is a…
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