Artistic Impressions is a lead player in the field of home enhancement, offering quality art at affordable prices. Their top priorities are to provide customers with excellent products and their sales team with an opportunity for exceptional personal and financial growth. They grossed $632,000 the first year and registered an outstanding growth of 962 per cent in the 90s. The company is based in Lombard, Illinois; Bart Breighner is the CEO and Chairman. Bart Breighner, formerly the Founder and CEO of Artistic Impressions, Inc., started Artistic Impressions in 1985, after a career of more than 20 years with World Book Encyclopedia. Bart was raised on a small farm in Pennsylvania, served four years in the U.S. Air Force, graduated from the University of Maryland, and later completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Bart has served as Chairman of the Board of New York City's based National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Breighner has also been a member of the Board of the Direct Selling Association who recognized Artistic Impressions, Inc. For their support of NFTE with the "Vision For Tomorrow" Award in 1994. Artistic Impressions has been listed twice in the last 10 years in Inc. Magazine's list of America's 500 fastest-growing private companies. Because of the success of Artistic Impressions, Bart has been a finalist, several times, in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Illinois and Indiana. However, there is also a Canadian Artistic Impressions, Inc. Which aims to provide our customers with quality art, at exceptional prices through private art shows that are entertaining and informative. It is a company that looks beyond the bottom line through its relationship with the Not-For-Profit Organizations and donates 50 per cent of profits from the sale of fine art prints the Hope Initiative of World Vision Canada to provide prevention, care and advocacy programs for orphans, vulnerable children and those affected by the HIV / AIDS pandemic in Africa.
