Art of Framing

Our holiday hours:

Friday, December 22: 10-6
Saturday, December 23: 10-2

*Sunday, December 24 - Monday, January 1: Closed*

Tuesday, January 2: 10-6

We hope everyone has a safe and blessed holiday season!

Art of Framing will be closed Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will re-open Tuesday with our regular hours.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

TO OUR LOYAL CLIENTS:

We will be closed Saturday, October 14th. We will re-open with our regular hours on Tuesday the 17th. Thank you!

Our phone lines are down today, please email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Thank you!

To Our Customers:

We will be closed on Tuesday, September 5th, for employee training and computer system updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will be back to our normal hours on Wednesday.

To Our Loyal Customers:

Late last year we tragically and unexpectedly lost our lead framer and manager, Andy, to cardiac arrest. After 12 years with us, he was an integral part of our day to day operations and his talent, dedication to the craft, plus his friendship and warm smile, are missed every day.

Due to his absence and another staff departure, we are short staffed and working on training a new hire. Finding someone in such a specialized field, post-pandemic, has been challenging. We ask you to bear with us as we find someone that has the skill and knowledge to complete your orders with the utmost quality and care.

Until that time, we are transitioning to an APPOINTMENT ONLY
schedule for drop-offs to handle the work-load. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work within a “new normal.”

Please call us at 619-275-0461 to schedule your appointment.

Art of Framing will be closed Saturday, October 8th in order to have our parking lot re-paved and sealed. We'll see you next week!

Art of Framing updated their business hours.

NEW SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE
Art of Framing will be closed every Monday in the month of September in order to update our inventory.
The dates of closure are:
13th
20th
27th

Thank you for understanding!

NEW AUGUST SCHEDULE

Art of Framing will be closed every Monday in the month of August in order to update our technology and inventory.

The dates of closure are:

2nd
9th
16th
23rd
30th

Thank you for understanding!

Spanish Village in Balboa Park is open for business once again! Go find your next piece of art to frame from one of their talented artisans!

You are invited to visit the historic Spanish Village Art Center - The largest art community in San Diego.
Stroll across our colorful patio and visit with the artists in their working studios. What a beautiful and inspirational way to start your day.
www.spanishvillageartcente.com

Bernie knows where to get the best picture framing in town. 🖼️

We love the creativity!

https://mymodernmet.com/altered-thrift-store-paintings/

Artist Adds ‘Star Wars’ To Discarded Paintings He Finds in Thrift Stores One man's trash is this man's intergalactic treasure.

We certainly think so!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/it-time-recognize-frames-independent-artform-180975184/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Is It Time to Recognize Frames as an Independent Art Form? In a fairly new field, the picture frame may finally be coming into its own

Art of Framing is now open our regular business hours, Monday-Friday 10-6 and Saturday 10-4! 🎉🎉

We will require all patrons entering the store to wear a face covering and to practice social distancing. We are cleaning all surfaces after each customer and will have hand sanitizer available at all times. We appreciate your cooperation with our new safety measures as we try to balance public safety with our livelihood and the health of our team.

We look forward to helping you with your framing needs once again!

To our valued customers:

We are happy to announce we will be re-opening on May 18th with our normal business hours, Monday-Friday 10-6 and Saturday 10-4. We will require masks be worn at all times while in the store and we will practice social distancing as much as possible. Contact-less pick-ups will also be available and we will be sanitizing as much as possible in between clients.

We've appreciated your well wishes and patience as we've weathered this shut-down. We are happy to continue to provide you with quality custom framing while we try to ensure the health of our customers and our team in the months ahead.

To Our Valued Customers Regarding COVID-19:

Due to Governor Newsom's order to shelter in place, we are changing over to an "appointment only" schedule through April 11th, and possibly later, to limit the number of customers in store at once. We will reassess our options in mid April.

We will be available during our regular business hours, please call us at 619-275-0461 to make an appointment. We will be practicing social distancing and continuing to sanitize per CDC guidelines.

As a small business, we can be hit relatively hard financially when we have to close. We appreciate your cooperation as we try to balance public safety with our livelihood and the health of our team.

In solidarity, Art of Framing

Please join us tomorrow, February 15th, from 11-3 for our Be The Match donation drive in honor of our friend Michelle, who is battling stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Donating is easy and only takes about 15 minutes to sign up. You could be the difference between life and death for a person with cancer or other deadly diseases!

We are open our normal hours tomorrow from 10-4.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-framing.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=The+New+York+Times+Magazine

Letter of Recommendation: Framing The practice — and aesthetics — 
of preservation.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Art of Framing

Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again is showing now until September 2nd at the SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An excellent exhibition worth checking out for any art aficionado. You can find tickets here: https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/andy-warhol-from-a-to-b-and-back-again

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."

In celebration of International Women's Day we are honoring Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American inventor, painter, and actress.

Hedy Lamarr was born in 1914 in Vienna, Austria. In early 1933, at age 18, Lamarr was given the lead in Gustav Machatý's film, Ecstasy. The film became both celebrated and notorious for it's sexuality and was ultimately banned in America.

Shortly after filming, Hedy married an arms dealer named Fritz Mandl, she was 18, he was 33. Hedy quickly learned her husband was controlling and jealous. Her marriage to Mandl eventually became unbearable, and she decided to separate herself from both her husband and country and dressed like a maid, she silently escaped by bicycle in the middle of the night.

After arriving in London in 1937, she met Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, who was scouting for talent in Europe. She initially turned down the offer he made her (of $125 a week), but then booked herself onto the same New York bound liner as him, and managed to impress him enough to secure a $500 a week contract. Mayer persuaded her to change her name to Hedy Lamarr (to distance herself from her real identity, and "the Ecstasy lady" reputation associated with it.) He brought her to Hollywood in 1938 and began promoting her as the "world's most beautiful woman".

She appeared in 25 movies between 1938 and 1958. Lamarr enjoyed her biggest success playing Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949. Lamarr became a naturalized citizen of the United States at age 38 in 1953.

Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she worked in her spare time on various hobbies and inventions. Among the few who knew of Lamarr's inventiveness was aviation tycoon Howard Hughes. She suggested he change the rather square design of his aeroplanes (which she thought looked too slow) to a more streamlined shape, based on pictures of the fastest birds and fish she could find.

During World War II, Lamarr learned that radio-controlled torpedoes, an emerging technology in naval war, could easily be jammed and set off course. She thought of creating a frequency-hopping signal that could not be tracked or jammed. She contacted her friend, composer and pianist George Antheil, to help her develop a device for doing that, and he succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player-piano mechanism with radio signals. They drafted designs for the frequency-hopping system, which they patented. Their invention was granted a patent in 1942. This frequency-hopping technology became a precursor to the secure wi-fi, GPS and Bluetooth now used by billions of people around the world.

In 1997, at age 84, she was honored with the American Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. She was the first woman to win the Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Bronze Award, given to individuals whose creative lifetime achievements in the arts, sciences, business, or invention fields have significantly contributed to society. In 2014, Lamarr and Antheil were posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Hedy Lamarr died in Florida, on January 19, 2000, aged 85.

Custom framing is a wonderful way to gift family photos and heirlooms at Christmas time! Our high quality materials and attention to detail preserve your memories for years to come.

We promise our frames will not destroy your art!

Banksy Painting Self-Destructs Immediately After Being Sold For $1.4 Million The "Girl With Balloon" painting passed through a shredder hidden in the frame.

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