The magazine for progressive craft retailers
2011 Top Retailer Award Winners: Building on Community Spirit
Success Is No Secret Here
For more than 30 years, Don Muller Gallery has thrived on a combination of vision and hard work.
Sean Reagan pays a visit.
Winning by Doing
The 2011 Top Retailers and Honor Award recipients all have one thing in common: they're "doers."
Karol V. Menzie shares their secrets.
BMAC at 30: A Whole New Way to Do Business
How one simple idea revolutionized the marketplace for American crafts.
Kat McKerrow tells the story.
BMAC at 30: The Kids Are All Right
Ready, talented and able, a new generation of BMAC participants moves in.
Kat McKerrow reports.
COVER: The storefront of the
Don Muller Gallery in Northampton, Mass., beckons. Photography by Paul Shoul.
What’s the buzzword among NICHE magazine’s 2011 Top Retailers? “Community.”
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Owner Don Muller, who has been selling art in western Massachusetts since the early 1970s and at his Main Street, Northampton, gallery since 1978, has seen many changes through the years. But his story isn’t as much one of survival
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The 2011 Top Retailers and Honor Award recipients all have one thing in common: they’re “doers.” Whether promoting artists, selling crafts or hosting special events, they’re actively transforming their businesses and communities. Click on the links below to read the
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Little did Wendy Rosen know that, after 30 years, her idea for a wholesale marketplace for fine craft would still be alive and thriving as the Buyers Market of American Craft.
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More than a few family dynasties have grown up around the Buyers Market, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Parents who have exhibited for decades are now watching their children participate in the show.
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One simple idea is sometimes all it takes to launch a successful business. Come up with something people want or need, or don’t even know they need until you offer it to them, and you’re well on your way.
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Barry Gross’s art pens have sat on the desk in the Oval Office. They’ve won prestigious awards. They’ve been used by politicians, surgeons, filmmakers, a concert pianist and a self-proclaimed “pirate.” All of these folks would agree with Gross’s motto:
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Unusual metals and strikingly unusual gemstones join the more familiar gold and silver, diamonds and pearls in winning the 2012 AGTA Spectrum Awards hosted by the American Gem Trade Association.
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The Rosen Group has announced dates for the Buyers Market of American Craft and NICHE: The Show.
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Calendar of Winter and Spring American and Canadian wholesale shows, markets and expos.
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Preview in-depth feature articles on a variety of topics like store design trends, management techniques, merchandising strategies and gallery profiles.
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