About Us

       I am a art educator k-12 and college, illustrator and studio painter. I love teaching both children and adults about anything connected to the arts. When I am not in class or the studio, I am blogging about all kinds of artistic interests online. The restored materials plus the newly generated artifacts and photos generated here are the property of my family.

      The clip art on this blog is free to use only if you use it within particular boundaries. What this means is that graphics here may be used freely by non-for-profit organizations, scrappers, crafters, etc.. under certain conditions. I have listed the explicit circumstances in which the graphics may be used below.

A list of uses are:

1. personal craft projects for gift giving (non-profit only)
2. church or school newsletters electronic or hardcopy
3. church or school related e-mail
4. church bulletins electronic or hardcopy
5. power point and slide shows developed by certified teachers, pastors, priests, and church staff
6. Web masters and authors may use graphics to promote the Gospel of Jesus within the context of an article online and should also share a common belief in The Apostles Creed with us. Return a link to the gallery, please. (No redistribution of graphics as an online collection!)

      Do not use the clip art for publications that promote hate speech, pornography, gambling, or any other unlawful activities. It is unethical to republish content in order to drive traffic onto pages that promote criminal activity. Graphics here are for ministry use only. All original and/or derivative works are copyrighted by the Kathy Rice Grimm. Do not burn the graphics to a CD collection, nor include them in any other online collection of clip art. These can only be used for Christian non-for-profit activities/ministries that positively teach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Churches, pastors, priests, and Christian media may super-impose a logo, quotes, scripture, or name of it’s ministry on top of the graphics to create a unique identity for these visual aids. However, this does not mean that the graphic will belong to the person or persons altering it, graphics should never be redistributed as free clip art from other resources unless special permissions are granted in writing. And guess what, we will never grant permission for it’s distribution from those web pages promoting criminal activities. If our patrons should ever see these graphics or read our articles on those pages that promote the trafficking of slaves, pornography, gambling, or the promotion of ‘hate’ speech please inform our staff immediately! We state explicitly our beliefs here. If you are in Christian ministry and believe in the Apostles Creed, then you are perfectly welcome to use the graphics distributed here for Gospel ministry.

      Do not hotlink to the images. These graphics are designed primarily for publishing projects, and arts/crafts. If you are in ministry on the web and would like to include an image within the context of an article, write me and ask. Hotlinking is bandwidth theft! It is illegal to hotlink to a copyrighted image unless you have either paid for it or have special permission to do so. 

      For further inquiry or special permissions you may write the staff at pickandprintgallery@yahoo.com

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Where do the materials come from and how may these be used?

      Some of the articles, all of the craft instructions and those original materials by Kathy Grimm are copyrighted. Make sure that you know what is what before presuming it to be public domain resource. All of the coloring pages, worksheets, puzzles, cartoons and illustrated poems are either cleaned and restored here or are created entirely by myself or my family members.
      The photography with copyright notices used in the craft articles is the sole property of Kathy Grimm and may not be used elsewhere on the web. Google also sometimes uses our photos to link to our site through images or by maintaining web history through their archive.org searches. By submitting our content to Google we agree with the practice, however, this does not mean that we have similar agreements with webmasters who claim to have search pages that do not provide a direct link to our blog with every image or post listed. Search pages at pinterest do provide direct image linking to our blog, so this search software is a good example of a company software using a correct and ethical linking practice.  

      The videos posted on this blog belong to their prospective owners and are not in the public domain! These videos are provided by the youtube services freely in order to promote viral searches that are related under the category of education on this blog. When you upload a video at youtube, you agree to this practice.

      Some of the content redistributed on this blog comes from the generous people at wikipedia.org. Wikipedia freely distributes both encyclopedia articles or current articles that have been both dedicated to the public domain or have passed into the public domain by default. These articles may be freely printed by all school teachers. However, the articles should not be misrepresented as belonging to people who have not actually written them. If you include these in a publishing hard copy, you must reference their original authors in the back of the book, assignment, or report as you would for any resource used or quoted when compiling a book or turning in a paper.

      All poetry transcribed on the blog is in the public domain. If the author is not listed with the poem then I do not know who wrote it. I am, however, certain that the poetry is in the public domain. If I know the author of the poem, I note him or her with the poem.