Careers

Blick Art Materials is one of the largest and oldest providers of art supplies in the United States. Our extensive selection, competitive prices, and superior customer service make us the choice for professional and amateur artists, art educators, architects, designers, students, hobbyists, or anyone requiring quality art materials for work or pleasure.

Corporate Offices: Highland Park, IL

Retail Stores: Highland Park, IL

Customer Contact Center and
Distribution Centers: Galesburg, IL

Blick Art Materials is always interested in interviewing talented people who want to work for a great company. If you're interested in joining our team, please send your resume, and a cover letter including your career objectives and interests, to recruiting@dickblick.com.

We always keep resumes on file, so even if we're not hiring at the time, we will refer to this file if we have a future opening in your area of expertise. Blick Art Materials is an equal opportunity employer. 


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Blick Art Materials provides a unique opportunity for professional development.

We’re small enough so you can…

• Directly influence company performance
• Learn about every area of the business
• Have a significant contact with senior management

…but big enough so you can

• Learn state-of-the-art technology
• Enjoy an outstanding benefits package
• Experience proven stability

Blick Art Materials has achieved phenomenal growth, longevity, and industry leadership from the mid-20th century to the present because we have stayed true to our founding principles:

• Providing our customers with the best selection, product quality, pricing, and service
• Creating a climate that calls forth the best in every employee
• Capitalizing on emerging technologies and opportunities for growth

Commitment to our customers

We are determined to make the customer experience easy, enjoyable, and productive.

Our customer satisfaction ratings, consistently the highest in the industry, are achieved by providing the largest, most comprehensive selection of products, and the highest level of customer service possible.

Equally important, we monitor our pricing every single day to ensure that our prices are lower than any of our competitors.


Commitment to our employees

At Blick, we strive to attract, develop, and retain great people. One of the ways we support this is through a commitment to our benefit plans, including profit-sharing and company-supported health insurance. Adjusted for taxes, the profit-sharing plan constitutes a cash payment of roughly 20 percent of annual company profits to support our employees' retirement goals.

Blick also offers unlimited promotional opportunities. We pride ourselves on consistently drawing from inside the company ranks to build a strong management team.

Commitment to our community

While Blick’s primary objective is to bring savings to our customers through value pricing, we also believe in promoting and supporting the visual arts.

Our corporate team promotes awareness in the art community at both the local and national levels, and our retail stores have become a vital part of the creative community by working closely with loyal art organizations. Combined, these efforts result in an annual commitment to the creative community of approximately $500,000.


Ownership

Owners either set the tone of an organization as pursuing short-term profits at all costs or setting limits on their importance. Our longstanding family ownership, now in its third generation, has kept management free from the pressure of quarterly earnings reports. Our shareholders favor long-run gains over short-term profitability. This ensures continued leadership in our industry.

Our owners also insist that Blick serve a positive role in society. While financial stability and profits are of great importance (Blick has never reported and annual loss in its almost-100-year-history), the owners recognize that our customer and employee communities must be considered in order to maintain a healthy organization.

Providing the best service to our customers is an essential part of our philosophy. Our long standing business motto “Blick Ships Quick” has always demonstrated our commitment to getting customers what they want, when they want it. Today, new automated picking equipment and a sophisticated quality control system continue to make that commitment a reality, allowing us to process most orders within 24 hours (with no additional rush charges).

We do our best not to make mistakes, but when we do, we take responsibility. We have the most customer-friendly return policy (no questions asked, no restocking fee) in the industry. We don’t cancel back orders, nor do we charge additional freight if out-of-stock items are shipped at a later date. Great service means more than accurately and quickly processing orders.

Our phones are answered by real people 24 hours a day, seven days a week – making us more available to our customers than any of our competitors.

Our full-time product information specialists are “art material experts” who answer consumer questions on the phone, by email, and by mail.

 

Our call center staff and retail store personnel spend thousands of hours every year learning about our products so they can assist customers in making informed decisions. Finally, our catalogs and website provide in-depth information on how to safely use the art supplies we sell.