Do-It-Yourselfers are helping to paint a rosy picture at Blick Art Materials. The century-old company cites the maker movement among the contributors to strong sales growth in recent years. “The whole ...

Chicago-based Dick Blick Holdings, which mails the Dick Blick Art Supplies catalog as well as home and garden title Alsto’s, purchased $40 million retailer The Art Store out of bankruptcy. Dick Blick ...

bought Art Media Inc., a 37-year-old chain of three art supply and frame shops based in Portland. The change took affect Monday and more shifts are in store. The new company announced that it plans to ...

Dick Blick Art Materials (formerly known as ArtSign) has been a Twin Cities fixture for artists for decades. Artists and hobbyists alike appreciate that the store is staffed with actual artists who ...

The line outside the new Blick Art Materials store at 6300 W. Charleston Blvd., Suite 130, stretched around the building and through the parking lot. The promise of $100 worth of free art supplies for ...

Saturday, Jan. 19 is the last day of operation for the Blick Art Supplies East Side shop, 2219 N. Farwell Ave. Saturday, Jan. 19 is the last day of operation for the Blick Art Supplies East Side shop, ...

When corporate officials showed up Wednesday at Dick Blick’s Moline location, the store’s assistant manager said she “knew it couldn’t be good.” She was right. The Galesburg-based company staffers ...

Highland Park, IL-based Dick Blick Holdings wasn’t seeking to divest its Alsto’s catalog and Web business. But it nonetheless decided in November to sell the unit to HSN Improvements, the direct ...

Say an artist wants to paint a field of blue flowers — Sapphire Blue flowers, that is. Or maybe he or she would prefer Prussian Hue Blue, or Cobalt Blue, or even a nice Violet Blue. Then again, if ...