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Since 1988, the Art-to-Art Palette as a company has worn many public servant hats that mainly revolve around those in and those serving the Arts and Educational communities.

The Art-to-Art Palette Journal publishes in print, following an editorial format of one that records the histories, featuring artists, educators and the entities, including extensive readings of related topics, within its Midwest roots of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and the Western portions of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. AAPJ also opens its Main Section with the artistic and educational happenings from its national associations formed throughout its history.

Its Midwest electronic flagship, the Art-to-Art Palette NewsWire distributes the news happenings that are time related about people, places and events, while its national electronic channel, Palette News Arts Network connects with the Journal's beyond associations. In conjunction, the Northwest Passage Record is an all general news local and regional electronic imprint, editorially serves a 'path' on US 127 in Western Ohio and US 27 in Eastern Indiana, but also carries selected AAPNW and PNAN reports.

The AAP company also engages in book and card publishing, including website development and maintenance services. The founders offer refer to their entities as "The Navy" - one small group united under one umbrella that not only runs its own race, but also for those served.

Its overal history dates back to the founder, Ben Rayman with his beginning in the printing and publishing industry in the early 1970s. Throughout the years, the 'dream' surfaced in other forms and parts in his other founded entities, however in 1988 the Art-to-Art Palette Journal made its debut.

Originally its intended geographical coverage was smiliar to a regional weekly newspaper with its editorial forum as it is today, which its founding mission has not changed its editorial forum, serving those in and those who serve the Arts and Educational, but the 'Journal' assumed the spokesmedia representation for

Art-to-Art: Building Friendships Through Art (1986-2006), a 501c3 Ohio-based k-12 art education program, founded by Patricia Rayman, then an art teacher in the Delphos Public School system.

The Art-to-Art program that started with three schools, one each in Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin began to soar and thusly in 2006 peaked itself at a 42-state, over 400 school participation. Furthermore and using numbers based on the print medias where the program's participating schools are located and its annual national show sites, an unaudited twenty-year history to and about the program falls within a potential expsoure of 50 million.

The Art-to-Art program all started by a teacher who wanted to give her students more; a teacher who grew up in Northern New Jersey, a stone's throw away from the Big Apple, who upon graduation was told to her from a fellow classmate about an art teacher opening in her classmate's rural Western Ohio roots. ( Some documents of historical from the program's library are on view by clicking on the logo on left.)

Although the Art-to-Art program is not in physical operation as of this 2009 writing , its rights and future are still maintained by its founder, who today continues to teach art education academics and applications at art centers and higher educational institution in Western Ohio. In addition, its original currculum guide is in an revising process with its objective to become both an integrated and subsidiary teaching model with Art Education in the forefront.

As in the beginning, the company's 'children' stays on the founding platforms, keeping in touch as opportunity blooms with those met along the way, and holding steadfast to a never give up course.

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