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Welcome to Artist and Craftsman
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Welcome to the Artist & Craftsman Supply official
website. Our little store in Portland, Maine (opened in 1985), has now
grown to more than a dozen stretched across the USA – from Charleston,
South Carolina to Seattle, Washington, to here in cyberspace.
Our price to you will be discounted and competitive. Our people are
great. If ever you have a question or a problem, you’ll speak
with a real live Artist living in Maine. You can almost smell the pines,
taste the lobster and potatoes.
This site offers you genuine value in oil paints, brushes, sculpture
materials, drafting supplies, acrylics, gouache, watercolors, pastels
& pencils. In addition to the usual stretched canvas and boards,
we supply wood painting panels and rigid painter’s foam board.
Our papers list the Arches, BFK & Cover stocks, but we also buy
papyrus from Egypt & containers from Italy’s Fabriano mill and gather overstocks and
closeouts from all over the world....and Welcome to Maine. |
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Focus on Brooklyn |
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Featured Store:
Brooklyn – Abby Perez,
Manager
Atmosphere
Like all neighborhoods in New
York, Williamsburg has a flavor and vibe all its own. With
its artsy mix of culture and industrialism, it has become
the perfect haven for area artists and their studios. It is
here that you will find Brooklyn's Art Store, Artist & Craftsman
Supply, situated on Metropolitan Avenue on the border of Williamsburg
and Bushwick. There is a residential component to the neighborhood,
so many up and coming artists are setting up working space.
One such artist was Abby Perez, who a year ago started exploring
the area and to her surprise discovered there was this major
fine art supply store just a few blocks away. "I felt it was
definitely serendipitous that I found A&C Supply. I was in
a position where I was moving from photography to printmaking,
since I recently realized I was far more interested in processes.
I had been getting a bit too clinical in my art", Abby joked,
"and when I came across A&C, it was just the right place for
me". Abby was hired as a co-manager and immediately started
taking in as much information as possible. She was able to
fine tune her knowledge of materials and the technical aspect
of many mediums, and within a short time became the manager
of the Brooklyn store. "Here there is this underlying philosophy
of being pluralistic with art", she says, "where customers
and staff alike encourage each other to transcend any one
medium. We are often discussing ways of translating from one
to another. With this approach, artists don't become exclusive
with their materials and we find new and interesting ways
to use our products". Abby and her staff all agree that mindset
lends itself well to the atmosphere of Artist & Craftsman
Supply. Customers are greeted from the moment they walk in
the door with a friendly face, a wealth of knowledge of the
products, and the sense that overcoming hesitations about
the creating of art is what they are there to help you with.
Abby Perez and the Brooklyn staff can be found at 761 Metropolitan
Avenue or reached at 888.772.4542 or bkl@artistcraftsman.com.
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Photos by: Lara Kappler
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Mid April 2008-
Mommy,
where are art supplies really made???
That is a question
often heard at Artist & Craftsman. So to respond
to the inquisitive children and grown ups, we asked
a number of top officials in our industry, Mommy, where
are art supplies really made? To see what Mommy said, go ahead and push the button.
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