For the second interview in our on-going series highlighting our employee-owners, we talked with Bark Frameworks hinger Mark Minevich. Employee owner name: Mark Minevich Department/Position at Bark Frameworks: Art Preservation / Hinging Hails from: St. Petersburg, Russia. I came to America at age 23, with ...
Employee owner name: Ralph Raphael Fleming Department at Bark Frameworks: Woodshop How long have you worked at Bark?: Since 1992 (27+ years!) Hails from: Richmond, VA What did you do before you worked at Bark Frameworks? I came to New York on a scholarship for a residency at PS1, ...
Employee owner name: Peter Suzuki Department/Position at Bark Frameworks: Special Milling / Woodshop Hails from: Kailua, Hawaii How long have you worked at Bark? Six years What did you do for work before you worked at Bark Frameworks? My last job was at New York Central Art Supply, ...
Employee owner name: Phil Kennedy Department/Job at Bark Frameworks: Art Preservation (focuses on Mat Making) How long have you worked at Bark?: Eight years. Hails from: Massapequa, Long Island. What did you do before you worked at Bark Frameworks? Before Bark, I worked at a smaller frame ...
Now that Bark Frameworks is employee owned, we wanted to reintroduce ourselves, one staff member at a time. In our first Spotlight interview of 2019, Marketing Manager Jennifer Clark sits down with Bark Frameworks welder Keara Martin. Employee owner name: Keara Martin Department/Job at Bark Frameworks: Welder ...
This month, we sit down with Eric Knutzon, Design Director at Bark Frameworks. Employee owner name: Eric Knutzon Hails from: Rural Colorado via California and Kansas City. How long have you worked at Bark?: Eight years What did you do before you worked at Bark ...
Bark Frameworks is now entirely owned by its employees through an ESOP trust. For the past two years we have been discussing the prospect of creating an ESOP—an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and now we have taken this big step. I will continue working ...
Frames carry multiple messages. Around a work of art a frame can establish an emphatic border—the artwork is inside the frame/the world is outside; or it may act as an almost invisible bridge from the artwork to the wall and the room. The frame ...
The exhibition “The Renoir Returns” opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art several weeks ago. The centerpiece of the exhibition, the artist’s “On the Shore of the Seine” (c. 1879), is a small landscape that was stolen from the museum more than 60 years ago. The ...
Gilded frames are generally associated with traditional frame styles—with period frames or their reproductions. At Bark Frameworks, however, since we focus on framing works of art from Impressionism to the present, the range of gilding we practice is eclectic and varied -- rarely intended ...