Show Mar Glenn-Mar craft shop relocates Artists and craftsmen received easier access to supplies last week with the move of Mar Glenn-Mar Arts to its downtown location at West Main GLENN MAR ARTS started a little over two years ago in the basement of Glenn and Maureen Spencers Spencer's home behind the senior high school We tho thought we had better stop day dreaming ab about ut an art and craft shop and do something about it says Mr Spencer r who has been chairman of the Fine Arts Department and teacher of the theart art department at Uintah High School the past seven years The day dream quickly turned from a time part-time interest interest interest in in- terest into a time full-time store offering everything from d dance nce and party decorations to silk screening supplies When we op opened ned we were the only people in the basin offering macrame supplies comments Maureen Now there are seven others in Vernal alone into this popular craft Building interest and skill by teaching free craft classes individually helping each customer and employing professional art and craft knowledge have been the core of the stores store's success GLENNS GLENN'S ART and craft studies include under graduate work at Brigham Young University and post graduate studies at the University of Utah and Utah State University sity Expanding the stores store's art department has of necessity been Glenns Glenn's prime interest and explains the addition of two more frame lines with the downtown move The store also now offers a complete oil acrylic and watercolor line of supplies Maureen's J learning of crafts is a continual love She has studied tole painting under Priscilla I Hauser la user fo founder of the national tole painters association and predicts that tole and decorative painting is a much more lasting skill than the fad crafts as it is done on everything from milk cans to clothing Maureen has also been invited invited invited in in- to attend many national retail workshops which explain the continual introduction of new ideas and classes Sometimes the big advertising guys back East jump the gun though she points out like they did with fabric crayons s. s The crayon company didn't anticipate the overwhelming response to this craft and it took the West over two years to obtain a supply of t the e crayons WORKING WITH the Spencers is Kim Mackay one of Glenns Glenn's former art students who brings her own special talents to the store She is currently teaching the wire tree classes helping with the macrame workshops and handles the store while the Dip and Drape and Dream Doll classes are being taught Kim won several ribbons and awards for her art work during her high school years A special service at Glenn Glenn- Mar is individual planning with clubs churches and organizations for programs demonstrations and bazaar projects We can always dig diginto diginto into linto a file and get some fresh |