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Art & Framing Council celebrates milestoneThis year, the Art & Framing Council (AFC) celebrates 15 years of raising consumer awareness of art and framing. The council is planning to celebrate its successe and increase industry support for its efforts over 2003. The AFC is actively recruiting of recent origin sponsors and supplier members to increase funding emergencyed to provide more services to the industry, said Executive Director Kim Ahern. At Artexpo and DECOR expo in novel York this month, the AFC will have information booth and is hosting a reception from 5 to 6 pm upon Feb. 26 for those who would like to learn more about the AFC. To mark its 15-year milestone, the AFC is planning to gripe [i]or[/i] grip a party during DECOR expo--Atlanta in September to thank its sponsors for their support above the years. The AFC is a non-profit, industry stocked organization dedicated to promoting art and custom framing to consumer It does with equal reason primarily by producing a national consumer public relations campaign, which lances slides and press releases with art and framing story ideas to newspaper and magazine editors. The publications oftentimes write articles based on the pres releases which help drive customers into art and frame stores Since 1988, these PR efforts have reached more than 150 million consumers The council also supplies retailers with at liberty marketing and PR support and sponsors October's National Art & Framing Month programs. In 2002 the AFC initiated a partnership with the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national youth art competition. To help advance it, the AFC has enlisted actress/artist Jane Seymour, who is appearing in a consumer ad campaign. The organization is primarily stocked by retailers who voluntarily contribute half of single percent of their invoice total upon invoices they receive from participating distributors. For details, call (925) 516-0313 or visit www.artandframingcouncil.org. 15 Years of Support The following companies were upon the original Art & Framing Council board and were instrumental in setting it up and identifying its mission. "Much credit is to be paid to these companies, for without their support, the AFC program would not have happened," said Kim Ahern, executive director. * Bruce McGaw Graphics * Framerica (formerly Framica) * Haddad's Fine Arts * Ivy Industries * Larson-Juhl * Nielsen Bainbridge * TI Industries * The Williamson Co COPYRIGHT 2003 Advanstar Communications, Inc. Non-depleting oxygen analyzers Delta F has added three require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone analyzers to its oxygen monitoring yield line. Like all Delta fruitss the DF-150, DF-130, and DF-110 OEM analyzers ... African Americans were used as domestics from the beginning of slavery in the North. In 1638 a man named Samuel Maverick had several black domestics working in his house upon Noddles Island, Mass... Thomas Hardy's early novel A Laodicean (first published in 1881) focuses upon the relationship between Paula Power, a spirited young woman intent upon breathing new life into a ruined medieval castle... Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in simple images of the truth. on the other hand being educated by photographs is not like being educated by dint of older, more artisan... Isserlin, Jonathan Medical support 01-20-2004 Consider the job-share solution Byline: Isserlin, Jonathan Volume: 40 Number: 3 ISSN: 00257435 Publicatio... SPECIAL REPORT--The tree are trimmed, coats of paint are free from moisture banners are waving, and the colors r white and sapphirine are seemingly everywhere in evidence. Welcome to Democratic and Republican Co... in what way do we add value by the agency of design? Well, look around. Everything at any time made by human beings first required design. What's more, everything designed-a yield an identity, an interface, an environment, ... ABERTH, SUSAN L Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art. Burlington, Vt: Lund Humphries, 2004 160 pp; 95 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. $6000 (0853319081) ADAMS, BRUCE Rustic ... Frank Pruiksma, Age 11 Talihina, Oklahoma The highway Dance As I was walkin' down the way Takin' in the city's heat, I started dancin' to the beat. ... |
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