Local Art Shop Tour

Nearing the last week during the month of October, our team had the opportunity to visit A Frame of Art, a locally owned and operated framing shop, in the city of San Marcos. A Frame of Art has been in business since 1989 and was founded by Richard Tjaden. His partner, Helen Tjaden, and son Alan Tjaden both help run the business, along with their assistant, Levi. All experts in their field, each staff member were able to present and showcase much of what the business had to offer.

The team members of A Frame of Art, introducing themselves to our student club at their workshop.

Our student members, intensively focusing on the discussion!

Levi showing us how to measure and clamp the frames.

Richard and Helen briefly going over the types of mattes used for artworks.

A Frame of Art generously donating us their matte board scraps!

Custom heart-shaped matte boards to take along the road! We thank the team at A Frame of Art for allowing us to tour their workspace!