To Our Friends in the Art Community,
For over a hundred years Speedball has been producing tools and supplies for artists, art teachers and students. Whether the finished work is destined to hang in a museum or on the refrigerator door, it's our mission to ensure that each of our products is safe, fun and easy to use and clean up - all at an exceptional value.
As you look through these pages, I hope you'll notice the improvements and enhancements to many tried and true Speedball products. But, I would also like to draw your attention to a whole new category we’ve introduced this year — Ceramic Glazes. All of Speedball's bright, vibrant glazes carry the ACMI AP label, giving you the comfort of knowing they've been tested and found to be non-toxic. And true to the Speedball tradition, cleanup is a breeze.
Art stores will love the promotional programs and discount schedule we offer on glazes. Teachers will appreciate the easy cleanup and full line of non-toxic colors. Artists will love the quality and value.
I’d like to personally thank you for your support and interest in our products. Best wishes for continued success as you and other creative minds go about “Making Art. Better.”
Walt Glazer
Chief Executive
Speedball Art Products
History
Somewhere, the spirit of C. Howard Hunt must be beaming with pride, because the pens his company began to manufacture in 1899 are still being produced. What’s more, the company, now called Speedball® after its famous dip pens, is alive and healthy.
A new chapter to the history of Speedball® began November 14, 1997 when our CEO Walt Glazer led a buyout of the Speedball® division during Hunt Corporation’s restructuring.
Speedball® Art Products is much more than pens. The associates produce a complete line of block printing and screen printing supplies, drawing pens, acrylic paints, watercolor palettes to keep mixed paints fresh between sessions, and Speedy Stamp™. Whatever fine Speedball® products you buy, you can expect top quality, because the people who make them apply the same dedication to their manufacturing as you do in using them in your creative pursuits!
Glazer also credits the success of the company to its dynamic management team, The smiles you see remain when they are hard at work in their offices or interacting with other Speedball® associates. The atmosphere from one end to the other of the Speedball® facility is truly one of respect and camaraderie.
But just because Speedball® continues to make a product after a century doesn’t mean they are behind the times. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Over the past 32 years, Speedball® has added to the dip pen line with Elegant Writer® Calligraphy Markers, Panache® Calligraphy pens, Speedball® Super Black India Ink, Speedball® Pigmented Acrylic Inks, Hue Based Acrylics a complete line of screen printing, block printing and calligraphy products, Red Baron™ tools, and most recently Speedball® Ceramic Glazes.
All of us at Speedball® Art Products are proud to have the opportunity to continue the age-old tradition of offering the “highest quality art products” and services second to none.
2301 Speedball Road Statesville, North Carolina 28677
(800) 898 - 7224
