so hello and welcome to chief joe's art stuff my name is julie and i'm here to impart some
knowledge to you today via a two-minute art tip and just as a caveat to let you know
this is not so much a tip as it is a story that i wanted to share with you guys out there it's
a little bit that i call the best of cheap joes that you probably don't know cheap joe's is to me
a whole lot more than an art supply store or warehouse or mail order place or whatever you
want to call it and i wanted to tell you a little bit about what i know about cheap joe's and joe
and my experience i first met joe when i moved to boone in like 1983.
i was a young teenager um moved here and didn't know a soul um but joe was the pharmacist
at our town pharmacy boone drug he was goofy and silly and full of energy and everybody loved him
and he talked to everybody i think the day i was there was somebody's birthday and so he had a wig
and a hideous coat on and was singing happy birthday to this person at like
8 million decibels and stuff and i had no idea like what is the deal with this person
he was more than just the town pharmacist he was kind of like this goodwill ambassador for the town
he like made people's day he went out of his way to show people that he cared about them his
interest in art was existing but he wasn't really doing as much with it then um but around that time
he was uh has started to take classes from noise long at appalachian state and really started to
cultivate his interest in art which is where cheap joe's spawned from is you know the need to get
materials in the appalachian mountains when there were none to be found cheap joe's started there in
the pharmacy just a couple little end caps and then maybe you know an aisle or two after some
time and junk like that but once i got on into high school and i started to um my art teacher
started to basically force me to come participate in art competitions and stuff like this and
you know every once while i'd you know win one here there and stuff like this and invariably
no matter how small or large or you know whatever it was in the region chief joe's
was somehow involved already sponsoring and participating and trying to do all that joe
could to kind of further the arts in the community i would win these cheap joe's gift certificates
and i would take them in and i would talk to joe and even when i here was this like
you know teenager that he barely knew you know we knew each other somewhat but like
at that point kind of really didn't know each other that well but he would help me
um use that money to the greatest good he would help me find materials that would complement what
i already had or would be the best use of my money for the direction i wanted to move into uh and the
different materials that i wanted to explore and joe was always right there like helping me shop
and like figuring out what would be like the best fit for me that right there that dedication to
helping me get to where i wanted to go through time and attention and care is what cheap joe's is
built on there's not going to be a day where cheap joe's is ever going to be able to be the cheapest
on everything you know with covid there's some stuff that's out of stock and you know much of
that is beyond our control we just have to kind of be patient and stuff like that so there are areas
where um they're just kind of things that we can't control but the one thing that i know resides here
is caring for our fellow artists whether you're a beginner or you're a long time artist who
who's been working for years and years and years chief joe's commitment that starts with joe is to
bring as many people into the art fold as possible through caring and concern and also making things
as affordable as we possibly can to give you the greatest access to material that we can
and so that you aren't fearful of trying something new and going out on a limb and exploring that's
what cheap chose is really about and that's what we want to offer to you every day to know that you
have a partner here rooting for you wanting you to do well for you to be excited and for you to
fall in love with your artwork every single day that's why we hope that you come to chief joe's
and that's what we hope to bring to the art community via joe who originally started it so
hope this little story was insightful and hope that you enjoy
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