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When I’m in a doctor’s office (or attorney’s or financial consultant’s), I always look on the wall for framed diplomas and credentials. I take note of what university or medical school they attended and then I look at the professionalism of the framing. Is it just because I’m in the business or do you do the same thing? When I see Walmart frames ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 31 May 2013 | Hits: 120
I thought it might be fun to introduce each member of The Art Shop staff by letting them tell you what they love to do (as related to The Art Shop).  Since I’m the one writing most of the blogs, I guess I’ll start with me. I am Arlene Dolin, Vice-President.  My husband, Lenny, and I have owned The Art Shop since 1989, which is difficult to ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 19 March 2012 | Hits: 765
... testify since they are the ones who have to change all those bulbs.   Imagine the cost of having 200 light bulbs shining all day every day. Those 200 bulbs generate a great deal of heat, so at The Art Shop, our air conditioners have worked overtime to keep the gallery cool – a challenge in 100 degree weather and a must even during the winters ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 31 August 2012 | Hits: 579
... love to talk about what they are framing and we love to hear the stories.  We’ve heard some unbelievable tales of wild vacations (wish I could tell you, but we keep secrets), celebrity encounters, interesting family histories and many others.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, we frame photos of lost loved ones and sometimes, it’s ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 10 August 2012 | Hits: 1117
... the stage in life where you no longer like looking at current photos of yourself. (It’s too depressing.)     I’m not talking about photographic portraits. While they are nice to have, they are not in the same league as an oil painting  by a skilled artist.  A portrait painting becomes an heirloom to be valued for ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Thursday, 07 June 2012 | Hits: 1461
... but is in the sofa across the room.  I usually try to talk them out of it, but in the end, it is their artwork and I do as they wish. Let the artwork be the focal point, not the matting. The purpose of matting is to enhance, not detract from the art.  I usually lean towards soft neutral outer mats and contrasting inner mats.  When you ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Thursday, 21 February 2013 | Hits: 461
... York, Atlanta and Las Vegas. Owners and directors of galleries across the country have signed up for Andy’s classes in Art Marketing and Art Event Planning. Evaluating art is another passion of Andy’s. Nearly every day, someone calls about or walks in with a piece of art they inherited, found or bought wanting to know what it is worth.  Andy loves ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Friday, 22 June 2012 | Hits: 1084
... our own Chris Taylor designed and executed. Most people are emotionally attached to whatever they’re framing; it means something to them. So when framing your most precious treasures, what is the cost of framing against the value of having it last a lifetime - or two? And I suppose it goes without saying that you’ll have much more fun with The ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Thursday, 04 April 2013 | Hits: 316
... Planet Earth. (We haven’t ruled out other planets in the future – we feel they are untapped markets.) The Art Shop was established in 1899, which makes us one of the oldest art and framing galleries in the country.   Lenny and Arlene Dolin purchased the gallery in 1989 from Lenny’s dad, Stan Dolin, who had owned it since 1964.  The ...
Section: Content | Category: Community | Date: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 | Hits: 1131
... art is sold in Dafen, a small village in southern China. The 700 reproduction shops within a 2.5 square mile area house about 3000 painters who work from photographs of the originals. Many of the workers had no art training until they went through a three-month gallery-sponsored art training course. They work in assembly line fashion.  One ...
Section: Content | Category: Artists | Date: Thursday, 13 December 2012 | Hits: 572
... notes from our children when they were small, and many more memories. We have spent quite a bit of time laughing at things we’d written and shedding a few tears as we’ve relived our courtship and first few years of marriage. I finally found the letter I was looking for, and in the process, two 50-something-year olds got reacquainted with their 18 ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 13 July 2012 | Hits: 1326
... first birthdays of my great-niece and nephew, I had their names cut out of a mat.  I placed a collage of photos taken throughout their first year behind the letters of their names. It was a treasured gift they will always have.  Tickets & Photos.  We have framed countless tickets to the Super Bowl, to special concerts and to other ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Thursday, 01 December 2011 | Hits: 748
... diplomas, war medals, paintings, prints and just about anything you can imagine (and many things you can’t). We are moved beyond words when people tell us about a loved one they have lost and are framing their portrait or a lock of their hair. We love doing shadowboxes where we can tell a story with treasured mementoes. We’ve had people cry when we’ve ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 | Hits: 850
Janelle DiLizio, Gallery Manager, grew up in Cape May, a small Victorian town at the southern most tip of New Jersey.  She studied art at Moore College of Art & Design and business at Peirce College in Philadelphia. Continuing our theme of featuring our staff members and what they love to do at The Art Shop, here’s what Janelle had to say: ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Monday, 23 April 2012 | Hits: 1341
... this blog is to focus on the poor couple who donated the piece to Goodwill in the first place.  They had purchased it from Burlington’s liquidation sale to put in their basement, but discovered it was too large. They tried to sell it at a church yard sale, but no one bought it, so they donated it to Goodwill. They must have seen the Weatherspoon ...
Section: Content | Category: Framing | Date: Friday, 28 September 2012 | Hits: 585
 
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