Art Creations, an art and custom frame business that has operated in the Chattanooga area for more than a half century, will close its shop on the North Shore next month.
Linda Moss Mines, whose late husband Tony Mines started the business in 1973, said Art Creations has begun a clearance sale and plans to shut down by March 15. The framing and art supply business once had five shops around the Chattanooga area and continues to be one of the oldest and largest family-owned framing businesses in the region.
“It’s bittersweet, but we feel like this is the right time after a good run for a long time,” Linda Mines said in an interview at the Frazier Avenue storefront.
When Tony Mines became sick with acute myeloid leukemia before he ultimately died in 2019, his daughter Jessica Dumitru left her legal practice and stepped in to manage the family-owned business along with her brother, Jason.
