I’ve been on a quest to find an easy attractive way to
display my kid’s artwork. I’ve used a
clothes line and clothes pins, which was cute in their toy room, but it didn’t give the clean look I
wanted. I tried putting up traditional
frames and changing their artwork in them as they came home from school, but
messing with traditional frames and glass was so cumbersome that I never ended up changing the artwork. Last year I took a
tour of Hershey Medical Center with the coordinator of artistic improvement. Part of her job is to enhance the environment
in the hospital. She does this by
painting murals and hanging artwork. In
some of the patient rooms they had built frames that they could easily switch
out the artwork. They even had a
collection of art prints and patients were able to look through the collection on
an ipad and choose the picture that would hang at the foot of their bed. They got to choose what they looked at during
their hospital stay! She painted ceiling
tiles with whimsical outdoor themes in the children’s hospital to give bed
ridden young patients something to look at. In one hallway she showed me some frames from Dynamic Frames that were hinged on one side. They swing open allowing you to press in a new piece of art and store old pieces. It was so easy and the spring loaded mechanism kept the image pressed
neatly to the mat and glass. It was
neat, clean and easy. Plus it can hold up to 50 pieces of art! It was the solution I had been looking for in
my home! I
asked for a set of these last Christmas and love them! They were easy to hang and can be hung
horizontally or vertically. Adding new artwork literally takes seconds and doesn't require any tools. I wish I had
these in the school office when I was an art teacher. It would be an ideal way to change out
seasonal art throughout the year at a school or office!
Note: Do be careful when the frame on a vertically hung art cabinet is open all the way the weight of it can tip the whole thing off it's hanger.
