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Let us show you how easy and fun tie-dyeing is.  Join us for our tie-dye demo on Saturday, June 27 and share this hands-on experience!

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This Memorial Day we will be closing at 5 p.m.

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Come visit our store this weekend for a FREE Screen printing Demo!!

The first 25 guests will receive a free Tshirt to print on, and demonstrations start at 1 pm, 3 pm, and 5 pm on Saturday the 16th; and 1 pm and 3 pm on Sunday the 17th.

Saturday morning there will be a Breastcancer Walk for the Cure, and roads will be closed until about 11 am or 12 noon.  After that, regular parking will be available streetside and in the metered parking lot next to our store.  Sundays the meters are free.

See you soon!

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Julie

Utrecht is proud to announce its 60th Anniversary Juried Art Competition, in appreciation for the patronage of Artists over the past six decades.  All Artists are invited to submit works created in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor and Mixed Media.  In recognition of excellence, Utrecht will be awarding over $12,000 in prizes!!

 Please go to http://www.utrechtart.com/contest/ for official rules and guidelines, and to enter and upload your entry.

Entries will be judged on quality, creativity, and originality by American Artist editors, Utrecht’s artist-in-residence, and by professional artists from the New York City area.

The entry deadline is September 1st, 2009.

The Grand Prize is $3,000 in cash!!  Enter to win today, and thank you to all our customers for their loyalty and patronage.

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We will be closing at 3 pm this Thursday, April 23rd, for our annual inventory.  We apologize for any inconvenience, yet an accurate inventory will help us serve you better.

 Our regular hours will resume Friday morning when we open at 9am.

Thanks!

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We’ll be closed April 12th in observance of the Easter Holiday.

Regular hours apply every other day.  Thank you.

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We’re open an extra hour tonight, until 9pm, for Gallery Hop.  You also get 20% off Utrecht non-sale items all day today.  No coupon required!!  Check out our killer canvas and paint sale too.

Also, we are currently out of 1/4″ x 1/4″ x 24″ Basswood sticks.  We will have more in next Tuesday morning.

~Have a good day!!~

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Hey!  We’re prepping for another mini Back To School season starting next week.  I say ‘mini’ because only a few schools are going back on March 30th.

We’ll maintain regular store hours, which are:  Mon thru Sat, 9am to 8pm, and Sundays 12 to 5pm.

For those students who are required to purchase an 18″x 24″ Drawing Board Kit (with mayline), for $69.99, we have about 20 in the store right now.  We’re also taking special orders for these boards, anytime.

~Take care!~

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Our new raffle item for the next few weeks is a set of three small Utrecht oil tubes: Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Hue, and Cadmium Yellow Hue.  These are the 37ml tubes.

No purchase necessary, but you do need your ArtSmart card number.  We’ll draw a winner in a few weeks, so make sure you put a phone number down as well.  It’s a $20 value, with a guaranteed winner!!

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This year marks the 60th anniversary of Utrecht.  And as such, we’d like to share with you some history about this wonderful company with the strange name.

Utrecht as we know it began in 1949.  A painter in Brooklyn, named Norman Gulamarian, wanted to find quality linen at a decent price.  Unable to find a source in the U.S., he began importing linen directly from Europe.  With his brother, Harold, they founded Utrecht Linens.  I believe the name of the company was inspired by the 17th century school of Baroque painters who resided in the Dutch city of Utrecht. 

Please visit our website, at http://www.utrechtart.com/about/, for more details.  Utrecht paint is still manufactured in our Brooklyn-based mill; as the retailer and manufacturer of our own paint, we pass the savings directly to you!