The Answers to Your Questions

"Where are you moving?"

Finally, the search over! 

Bear Hands hopes to be completely moved into our new location, 1208 Pollock Street, by Mid August. We would love to be able to hold our Student Art Show in our new store so that you can celebrate this transition with us. 

Its been a long search, and we are so thankful for the support that you have shown us for this transition. 

1208 Pollock Street

Our lovely new location will be on Pollock Street, right beside the Ghent Sandwich Shop! We are excited to be able to get in there and make it our own. This was my personal favorite location out of the buildings that we were looking at. 

"What about the frame shop?"

The Framing Ladies will be moving "Ballentyne Framing and Art" to 220 Craven Street, across the street from Mitchel's Hardware. They' will be moving their business in June. We are so excited for them!

"What is Bear Hands going to be?"

Bear Hands Art Factory is going to continue to be a fully equipped, growing, thriving pottery studio.  The studio will offer memberships, kind of like a gym, and new classes for members and non-members. We will still be able to provide potters in the community with quality clay, glazes, and tools. We hope that this new studio will attract more potters to the New Bern area, and draw in renowned potters to teach classes and workshops.

We will also have a large classroom where I will be teaching art classes for kids of all ages. Over the years, I have seen a need for art classes for younger children, so I hope to create programs for kids starting at age 3, and to run more classes, painting workshops, and events.

We will also be hosting some wonderful "Painting and Wine" events for adults on Friday and Saturday Nights! I am thrilled to welcome Sandy Bruno and Beth Conley to our teaching team to teach these fun painting events. 

We will also be teaching painting parties for kids on Saturday Afternoons for kids and young people!

As always, thank you for your continued support and encouragement as we grow our business to better serve the needs of  New Bern's art community.

~Hannah Mathiot,
Art Teacher 

Celebrate Our Future

You may be sad that we are closing out on our art supplies, and believe me, so are we! But please don't let it bring you down. We're looking hopefully into the future: to a place where we will re-focus on running a thriving pottery studio, and creating more classes for children of all ages. We will be running more painting and wine events so that our community can enjoy the painting experience. So instead of being sad, please join us in our hope and excitement for the future! 

Thank you for your support,

~Hannah Mathiot, 

Teacher, Co-Owner