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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Blick at Manifest
Friday, May 4th, 2012 Columbia College Chicago presented the 11th annual Manifest 2012. This Urban Arts Festival celebrated the work of its 2,000 graduating students with art exhibitions, readings, singer showcases and original designs! The festival took place in the streets with main stage performances from student bands such as, Kids These Days and Da$htone! The festival was a huge success, with hundreds of attendees, amazing artwork and fantastic live performances!
Blick Screen Printing Station
Blick Art Materials, national fine art materials supplier and a presenting sponsor, had a booth right next to Anchor Graphics. Anchor Graphics is a not-for-profit fine art press that brings together youth, artists and the public to further the fine art of printmaking with education. Blick had a screen printing booth set up with screens prepped by Anchor Graphics, where attendees learned to screen print their very own tote bags! The totes were extremely popular, so supplies ran out very quickly! Blick also gave out free prizes and exclusive discounts throughout the entire day. The staff from the Chicago Loop store had a great time meeting the Columbia faculty, alumni, students, and their friends and family in attendance!
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Spring Fling Prize Wheel
Blick Art Materials held its annual Spring Fling Event this year and it was a huge success! Aside from a 25% discount on their entire purchase, customers enjoyed great prizes, the opportunity to enter two raffle contests, body art demos, live artists and musicians, and much more! Customers flooded in to purchase their discounted art supplies and to check out the other fun activities at the stores throughout the day.
Body Art Demo Tattoos
Each store put a personal spin on the day’s event. The Lincoln Park location had delicious cupcakes provided by Bleeding Heart Bakery, New York had DJ Apple come to spin, San Francisco had Diana Lee come in to do a Scratchboard Demo! Other stores had airbrush artists giving customers their very own temporary tattoos, live watercolor artists painting throughout the day, and many talented musicians. The day was full of fun and surprises. Each store picked a winner for the all-day raffle, who won a 156-color set of Prisma Color Markers, and a winner of the body art demo raffle, who won a free Iwata body art application kit!
All the stores had lots of fun giving their customers a day of discounts, prizes, fun and free entertainment! What a perfect way to celebrate the Spring season!
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Second Place Motor Scooter Winner
Blick Art Materials, recently held a sweepstakes where students nationwide entered to win a free motor scooter! Blick is pleased to announce that Samantha Villian Van Pamel is the Second Place Prize winner of the Student Motor Scooter Sweepstakes. Villain Van Pamel is currently a freshman Fine Arts major at Cornish College of the Arts. Villian Van Pamel enjoys sculpture and print making, and has been buying her supplies from Blick for nearly 5 years now! Cornish College of the Arts also received a twenty-five hundred dollar Blick gift card as part of Villain Van Pamel’s prize package.
Blick hosted an Award Ceremony on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at the Cornish campus where Deborah Roetter, Director of National Sales, and Mark Adams, General Manager, of Blick Art Materials’ Seattle store, presented Villian Van Pamel with a 2012 Zuma Motor Scooter and custom airbrushed helmet by Iwata artist, Javier Soto. Bonnie Biggs, Art Department Interim Chair and Dr. Nancy J. Uschur, President of Cornish College of the Arts, were in attendance to represent the school and to receive the $2,500 Blick gift card. Customers received exclusive discounts to use towards their purchases for the entire day.
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
New Design Center
Our San Diego location has recently opened a Design Center! Now the San Diego store can cover all of your Custom Framing & Fine Art Printing needs.
Our framing center has a superior selection! Choose from over 1000+ frame styles, enhance your image with colorful and textured mats, and add depth and beauty to your piece with linen liners or mat filets. Protect your image with UV filtering glass and acid free mats and backing. We will soon have computerized mat cutting, so you can select from hundreds of designs and customized layouts! Come in today and let our professionally-trained and highly skilled staff help design and craft the ideal solution for your framing needs!
Our professional Design Center offers our customers the opportunity to combine Canson’s exceptional printing papers with the highest quality Epson Ultrachrome HDR inks. This means you can print everything from your point-and-shoot family photographs to fine art Giclee’ editions. Come on over to the San Diego Design Center today and let our designers help you turn your project into an exceptionally printed image, artwork or family heirloom!
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Blick Earth Day Eco Tote
April 22nd is Earth Day! Celebrate by picking up green products in-store at your local Blick! This Sunday only, get an eco-tote for a penny with a minimum purchase of $10!
Blick was green before it was fashionable. We’re proud of our energy-efficient operations, and pleased to offer art materials that are earth-friendly because of the way they’re formulated, manufactured, or packaged.
Visit our Store Directory for a location near you.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Valentine’s Day is a week away, so here is a little inspiration for creating beautiful, DIY Valentine’s Day decorations and cards for any date night, party, or small get together.
These ideas can easily be adapted for any holiday or occasion. Choose from a variety of decorative papers and embellishments available in stores to make your creations completely custom!
Items in this post were made with Blick Stationery (cards, “Love” heart garland), Shizen Decorative Paper Screen Print Assortment Packs (“Strung Along” heart garland, cards, and cupcake topper), Martha Stewart “Heartbeat” All Over Punch (“Jar of Hearts” confetti), Martha Stewart Twine, and Martha Stewart Glitter Pens.
Join us in stores on Thursday, February 9, 2012 for a Card Making Demo for more great ideas and to test your own!
Tags: card making, Decorative Paper, demo, DIY, DIY Decorations, Martha Stewart, Valentine's Day
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Doors opened at 10a on Thursday, June 9, 2011 with a line of one hundred and fifty people waiting to enter for the kick off of Paramus store’s Grand Opening! Needless to say, the Grand Opening was a huge success!
There was incredibly delicious food and cupcakes from local restaurant Bucu, beverages from neighboring Starbucks, and music by a local DJ through Powerhouse Studios and Entertainment! The store was also decorated by Le Chic Party Designs with amazing balloon arrangements!
There were several product demonstrations throughout the day that included vendors like Crescent, Iwata, and Savoir Faire! At each of these demonstrations customers were able to enter to win product packages.
Marcia Rieff, a member and instructor at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey was also in store painting live! Her watercolors were breathtaking and customers sat intently watching for hours!
At twelve, Retail President Ed Ogorzaly and Mayor Richard LaBarbiera performed a ribbon cutting ceremony where Blick also received a New Business Certificate from the Mayor!
Join us in welcoming our 32nd retail store and first northern New Jersey location! We look forward to contributing and inspiring the Paramus, New Jersey art community in the years ahead!
To see more photos from the event check out the complete album on the Blick Art Materials – Paramus Facebook page!
Tags: 35 Plaza, Art Center of Nothern New Jersey, artist Marcia Rieff, Bucu, coupon, discount, free demo, giveaways, grand opening, Le Chic Party Designs, prizes
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Preferred Card Customer Exclusive!
Visit any Blick Art Materials retail store this weekend, July 17- July 19, 2011, to take advantage of our June Double Discount Days promotion!
Click here for a coupon, or for more details about becoming a Preferred Customer.
To find your nearest Blick location, click here.
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
St. Louis Artists' Guild Reception
Our newest store, located in the University City area of St. Louis, was happy to welcome the St. Louis Artists’ Guild for a reception on January 21, 2011. Guests enjoyed freebies, a live DJ, and food from local favorite, Snarf’s. Thanks to everyone that stopped by!
Tags: blick, reception, St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis store, University City
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our San Diego store last weekend to sign the Memorial Day banner! We’ll be sending the banner to the San Diego Navy Crew stationed in Rota, Spain so they know how much they’re appreciated.
Tags: art store, Memorial Day, Navy
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