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Catalog shopper showcase: SchoolArts magazine brings you a sneak preview of catalogs from leading companies in the industry who offer hundreds of unique, useful, and affordable products, materials, and supplies for your artroom!


Bailey Ceramic Supply

Bailey's all new 185-page free color catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C.  is brimming brim  
n.
1. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.

2. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat.

3. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border.
 with all the products you will ever need for your classroom! From hundreds of new books and videos, to equipment, AP nontoxic glazes, to every imaginable i·mag·i·na·ble  
adj.
Conceivable in the imagination: imaginable exploits.



i·mag
 tool, Bailey has it all. Professional service and advice. Lowest prices! 800.431.6067 www.baileypottery.com

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Chavant

Chavant Inc., founded in 1892, manufactures 18 different formulas of non-drying, wax-based modeling clays. Chavant clay products are used by sculptors This is a partial list of sculptors. A
  • Wäinö Aaltonen (1894 - 1966)
  • Yaacov Agam (1928 - )
  • Agasias
  • Benjamin Paul Akers (1825 - 1861)
  • Aleijadinho - Antonio Francisco Lisboa (1730 or 1738 - 1814)
  • Károly Alexy
  • Alessandro Algardi (1595 - 1654)
, instructors, product designers, and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques.  artists. Quality consistency, variety, and technical service are considered the best that the industry has to offer.

800.CHAVANT

Fax: 732.842.3621

www.chavant.com

mail@chavant.com

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Artograph

Whether you cater to the budding or professional artist or crafter, Artograph products have a place in your classroom. Our full line of opaque projectors opaque projector
n.
A projector used to view images of nontransparent materials, such as printed sheets or drawings.
, light boxes, easels, and spray booths will both inspire and help your students become mute mute (myt), in music, device designed to diminish uniformly the loudness of a musical instrument.  production in their creative endeavors.

www.artograph.com

888.975.9555

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Best Test

Since 1923, BEST-TEST has made ACID FREE Paper Cement in only one way--with pure, natural, white rubber. Unlike "multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose  
adj.
Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software.


multipurpose
Adjective
" glues, BEST-TEST does not shrink or wrinkle Wrinkle

A feature of a new product or security intended to entice a buyer.
 paper. Try our whole line of products, including our NON-TOXIC School Grade Art Supplies and SAFE EARTH cleaners.

Visit out website today at best-testproducts.com.

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Cress Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Cress is committed to providing the finest, most-reliable ceramic kilns and industrial high-temperature furnaces in the world. When you buy a Cress kiln or furnace, we provide the best personal service and technical support experience in the world.

E-mail: cressmfg@earthlink.net

Website: cressmfg.com.

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Davis Art Images

A new catalog of quality slide images especially desired for the elementary through high school at teacher. Slide sets include foundations of art, painting, drawing, architecture, photography, multicultural arts, surveys of art, and much more. Call for a free catalog or visit us online today!

www.davisartimages.com

800.533.2847

Fax: 508.831.9260

E-mail: das@davis-art.com

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Debcor "Rock Steady" Art & Activity Tables

Debcor's heavy-duty Art & Activity Tables with large work surface are ideal for grouping students. Tops a 60" x 42" with scratch, stain, and liquid resistant laminate laminate,
n a thin slice of porcelain or plastic fabricated in a dental lab, which is cemented to the front of the teeth to cover gaps, whiten stained teeth, or reshape chipped or broken teeth.
 surface. Easy to assemble, steel base has height adjustable legs. Top color choices are Putty, Grey Nebula nebula (nĕb`ylə) [Lat.,=mist], in astronomy, observed manifestation of a collection of highly rarefied gas and dust in interstellar space. , Teal Nebula or Golden Oak laminates. Tough PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 or "armor" edges. Send for a free catalog.

513 West Taft Drive South Holland, IL 60473

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Dick Blick Art Materials Dick Blick Art Materials is a retail and catalog operation that supplies artists and school art programs. It was founded as a mail order business by Dick Blick in 1911 and purchased by Robert Metzenberg in 1948.  

The expanded 2004 Blick Art Materials Techniques and materials related to art:

Traditional techniques:
  • Acrylic paint
  • Charcoal
  • Clay
  • Collage
  • Drawing
  • Fresco
  • Glass
  • Gouache
  • Gum arabic
  • Lithography
  • Oil painting
  • Oil pastel
  • Paint
  • Painting
  • Pen and ink
 catalog is FREE to every teacher. Now 624 pages--featuring hundreds of new products for cost-conscious teachers, plus 12 lesson plans for making unique paper art projects! Call (800) 447-8192 to receive your copy. Online school orders are now welcome!

Blick Art Materials, PO Box 1267 Galesburg, IL 61402-1267

www.dickblick.com

E-mail: info@dickblick.com

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Fiskars

The new 2004 School, Office, & Craft catalog offers a wide variety of innovative tools for teachers and crafters alike. Each year, in schools across the U.S., teachers include FISKARS[R] for kids Scissors scissors

Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends
 on their school supply lists.

Get your FREE catalog today!

800.950.0203

www.fiskars.com

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Davis Publications, Inc.

The 2003-2004 Davis catalog is packed with proven classroom resources from the leader in art education. Make sure you're selecting from the very best in textbooks, resource books, large reproductions, videos, CD-ROMS, slides, digital images, and more. Get your free catalog today!

Call 800.533.2847 or visit us online at www.davis-art.com

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Delphi Glass Art, Mosaic, and Jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion.

The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring.
 Supplies

America's largest art glass and mosaics supplier offers a catalog just for teachers. Features stained and fused glass Fused glass is a term used to describe glass that has been fired (heat-processed) in a kiln at a range of high temperatures from 593º C (1100ºF) to 816º C (1500ºF). There 3 main distinctions for temperature application and the resulting effect on the glass. , mosaics, beadmaking and jewelry supplies; including class packs, starter kits, and bulk value packs. Delphi "Makes It Easy" for teachers since 1972. FREE color catalogs and lesson plans.

Call: 888.281.5780

delphiglass.com/teach

E-mail: teach@delphiglass.com

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Ed Hoy's International

World's largest supplier of stained glass stained glass, in general, windows made of colored glass. To a large extent, the name is a misnomer, for staining is only one of the methods of coloring employed, and the best medieval glass made little use of it.  and supplies. Over 11,000 item catalog. Features glass and supplies for glass panels or hot glass (torchworking, glassblowing, and fusing supplies). Fax or mail your request for a catalog on school letterhead/purchase older. We must verify eligibility. Wholesale only business-to-business or educational institutions. For information, call 800.323.5668, fax 630.836.1362, or visit www.edhoy.com.

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Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km).  Clay & Supply

Chicagoland's largest supplier of pottery and ceramic art This article is about artwork made out of clay. For ceramic materials and uses in general, see Ceramic.

Ceramics and ceramic art in the art world means artwork made out of clay bodies and fired into the hardened ceramic form.
 supplies and equipment. Manufactures over 40 screened and de-aired clay bodies into convenient 12 1/2 pound cylinders. Invented the Versa-Bat[TM] System, Glaz-eze[TM] markers, and the Throw-N-Go[TM] potter's wheel. All perfect for classroom situations. Great products. Great service. Call 800.258.8796

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Journey Education Marketing

Students, faculty, staff, and schools can save up to 75% OFF the most popular software currently available. Journey Education Marketing, North America's largest academic software dealer, has the widest software dealer, has the widest software selection available.

Call 800.874.9001 to request a free Student or School Catalog. School lab packs and licenses available. You can also shop online at www.JourneyEd.com.

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Mayco

Mayco manufactures high-quality nontoxic glazes that have been used in schools for decades. Mayco glazes are ideal for grades K-12 and college. Mayco also manufactures a full line of leaded glazes, acrylic stares, brushes, and accessories. Contact us for your FREE Nontoxic Glaze glaze, in pottery
glaze, translucent layer that coats pottery to give the surface a finish or afford a ground for decorative painting. Glazes—transparent, white, or colored—are fired on the clay.
 Catalog.

For a list of Mayco distributors, visit our website at www.maycocolors.com or call 614.876.1171.

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Muddy Elbow Manufacturing

Soldner Clay mixers, available in two sizes, are one of the safest and most efficient clay mixing options. They are perfect for mixing fresh clay from powder or recycling slop. Cast concrete mixing tubs, industrial strength motors, and stainless steel stainless steel: see steel.
stainless steel

Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat.
 mixing bars create a machine that will provide many years of trouble-free service.

Muddy Elbow Manufacturing, 310 W. 4th St., Newton, KS 67114, Phone/Fax: 316.281.9132

www.soldnerequipment.com

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Prime Arts Limited, Inc.

MATS by PAL is the "One Stop Source" for all your framing mat needs. We manufacture the most complete line of standard ready-made mats and custom-cut bulk mats. We also have backing boards and clear bags to finish off the look of your artwork! Min. order is $25.

Call 800.543.4251 or look up www.primeartslimited.com for a FREE catalog.

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L&L Easy Fire Kilns

Color catalog describes new Easy-Fire kilns designed for schools. More rugged than typical kilns, they feature hard ceramic element channels to protect the kiln's interior. The spring-loaded hinge hinge
n.
A jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a door or lid, on a stationary frame.



hinge

see hinge joint.
 is easy-to-open and safely stays out of the way while loading. Our automatic kilns feature four "Easy-Fire" ceramic programs. L&L kilns come with a three year limited warranty Limited warranty

A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good.
.

8 Creek Parkway. P.O. Box 1898, Boothwyn, PA 19061

Call 888.331.2333 E-mail sales@hotkilns.com www.hotkilns.com

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Midlantic Clay

Free to Art Teachers

$5.00 Value catalog with CD. Laguna & American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture,  Clay, Duncan & Mayco Glazes, plus everything else you need for Ceramics & Pottery classes.

Order your copy today!

Phone: 856-933-0022

Fax: 856-931-1240

E-Mail: orders@midlanticclay.com

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Peters Valley Craft Center

Peters Valley Craft Education Center in northwestern NJ offers intensive summer and fall workshops in blacksmithing, ceramics, fibers, fine metals photography, weaving, woodworking and special topics. Registered provider for professional development hours as required for NJ art teachers. Teacher and HS student scholarships available.

www.pvcraffs.org

19 Kuhn Rd., Layton, NJ 07851

ph: 973.948.5200 fax: 973.948.0011

pv@warwick.net

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Runyan Pottery Supply

One of the Largest "FAST SHIP" Factories in U.S.A. for Clay, Glaze, Ceramic Equipment, and Thousands or Supplies. TEACHERS: Call for 100-page catalog and technical help on kilns & equipment repair parts and new purchase guidance.

HOTLINE: 810.686.CLAY (2529).

(Talk to Real People!)

30 years Serving Artists & Art Educators.

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Sax (Simple API for XML) A programming interface (API) for accessing the contents of an XML document. SAX does not provide a random access lookup to the document's contents. It scans the document sequentially and presents each item to the application only one time.  Arts & Crafts

Sax Arts & Crafts 2004 Full-Line Catalog for Everything Your Art Desires

The comprehensive resource for art & croft CROFT, obsolete. A little close adjoining to a dwelling-house, and enclosed for pasture or arable, or any particular use. Jacob's Law Dict.  materials and equipment. 584-page catalog includes hundreds of new items plus many exclusive classroom kits to support you in creating an exciting, effective art curriculum as well as cross-curricular learning enhancements. Free to educators.

P.O. Box 510710, New Berlin, WI 53151. Order online at www.saxarts.com, call 800.558.6696 or e-mail us at info@saxarts.com.

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Shorewood Fine Art Reproduction's

Art Resource Guide features the largest selection of high-quality art reproductions available today. Shorewood's prints bring the diverse beauty of art into the classroom with over fifty different programs, covering subjects in Art History, the Humanities, Art Appreciation, and Multicultural Art.

Call 800.494.3824 for your free

Shorewood Art Reference Guide.

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Triarco Arts and Crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts.  

Stay in touch with the newest art supplies as well as your basic art needs! With over 1500 new products Triarco is committed to providing you with fine-quality products, competitive prices, and service you can rely on. Call or write for your free 2004 catalog.

800.328.3360

Triarco Arts and Crafts

2600 Fernbrook Lane Suite 100 Plymouth, MN 55447

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Sheffield Pottery

has been providing excellent products and service since 1946. Moist clays, both stock and custom. Large dry materials inventory, great selections! Kilns, wheels, equipment, tools, glazes, books, videos, accessories, and more.

U.S. Rt. 7 Box 399 Sheffield, MA 01257

Call toll free: 888.SPI (1) (Stateful Packet Inspection) See stateful inspection.

(2) (Service Provider Interface) The programming interface for developing Windows drivers under WOSA.
.CLAY or visit our website at www.sheffield-pottery.com and view our online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. .

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Skutt

This catalog is loaded with great, easy-to-understand information on how to go about selecting the right kiln and accessories for your classroom's needs. Additional information, including student lesson plans, can be found on our website at www.skutt.com.

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United Art and Education

2004 Art Materials Catalog now available!

United Art and Education has been providing dependable personal service to teachers and schools nationwide for over forty-three years. Save on all of your favorite supplies, as well as hundreds of new items, with competitive pricing, volume discounts and our free shipping policy. Request you FREE catalog today.

800.322.3247 Fax: 800.858.3247

Visit www.UnitedNow.com for online ordering & free project ideas!

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