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Art Materials Retailers Magazine Fall 2011

Generating Holiday Sales Artfully

Zenna Hurley of Sedona Art Supply in Sedona, Arizona
“At a NAMTA show, we bought ‘Art,’ a 6-foot-tall wooden manikin from Masters International. He hangs outside the front of the store wearing a Peace, Love & Art tee shirt and hat. “For adults and children, the Peace, Love & Art tee shirts and hats are popular. People stop to take their picture with him! Our sandwich board on the sidewalk is also an attention-getter, and on Sundays we put up balloons and a banner.

World News, with Diane Sawyer - Made In America

Wow! Peace Love & Art makes the national news! On a ABC segment about items Made In America. If you fast forward about 5 minutes in you will see it featured as a American Made item :) YEAH, Spreading the love!!! http://abcnews.go.com/watch/world-news-with-diane-sawyer/SH5585921/VD55143874/world-news-920-college-catalogs-lack-us-made-products

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Southern Methodist University dorm room furnished with American Made Items. Peace Love & Art Poster being one of them!

Northern Sun Fall-Winter Catalog Cover

Peace Love & Art graces the cover of the Fall-Winter catalog. To purchase Mugs, Magnets & T-shirts Click Here!

Sedona Art Supply and artist Kerry Bober support local Non-Profit

Sedona residents can now show their support for art programs for youth by purchasing a unique and art-themed shirt, hat, or sticker created by a Kerry Bober artist and entrepreneur.

Sedona Art Supply has joined forces with Kerry Bober in a special fund-raising sale to help support Sedona’s own nonprofit Art For Kids’ classes and camps. Bober contacted Zenna MacGregor, volunteer director of Art For Kids, right before the holidays about the line of T-shirts and hats she designed, offering to donate a percentage of the profit to Art For Kids. MacGregor said she jumped at the chance. She said the project is a reflection of Art For Kids’ motto: “Where teaching art is a work of heart.”

“The timing was perfect because with the economy so slow, families don’t have extra money to send their children to art programs after-school and on the weekends, so many of Sedona’s children are not getting regular weekly visual art classes. Classes that used to fill up with a waitlist are not getting enough children enrolled to be able to run,” MacGregor said. Sedona Art Supply owner Tim Hurley, MacGregor’s husband, was more than happy to cooperate in the effort. “It made perfect sense to sell these products at the store,” he said. “They are colorful, art-themed and fun.” The store decided to match Bober’s donation in order to make an even bigger difference.

Together they will donate 20% of all profits of the colorful hats and shirts to Art For Kids. “Today you hear a lot about budget cuts in schools and typically the arts is one of the first programs to get cut,” Bober said. “I like to give back to the community in a way that makes a difference for art education. It feels good.”

“As a child growing up, art was such a huge part of my enjoyment and well-being so today, anyway, if I can support this for a youngster I am happy to do so,” she said.

For more information on Arts for Kids, visit www.artsforkidssedona.com today.

Kindergartner Lucas Pico paints with acrylics during Art for Kids' camp at Sedona Arts Center