Bob's Art & Framing: New City's Family-Run Frame Shop Since 1980

Some businesses sell you something new. Bob's Art & Framing finishes something that already matters -- the jersey from the season that counted, the collage years in the making, the painting that deserves better than a bargain frame. Since 1980, this South Main Street shop has been New City's answer to everything worth hanging.

The shop describes itself as a creative custom framing shop, and the range is genuinely wide: shadowboxes, collages, sports jerseys and memorabilia presentations, textiles and fabrics, photographs, prints, and paintings. Every job is framed on the premises -- nothing ships out to a factory line. Their motto says it plainly: you name it, we frame it.

Since 2010, the business has been family-run in the truest sense. That year, mother and son Leah Straut Dickinson and Corey Dickinson took the leap to become the shop's owners. Leah has worked in the custom framing field since 1980 -- starting at Bob's itself -- and brings a background in Fine Art and Illustration to the design counter. Corey, whose background is in retail and design, handles the fabrication of jobs. Together they set out to build a customer-friendly shop where owners and customers create custom work that fits every framing need.

Walk in and you will notice the walls pull double duty. The shop's gallery features works from many local artists -- a deliberate choice. Leah knows firsthand how difficult it can be to get one's work shown, so Bob's gives neighborhood artists wall space alongside the frame and mat samples.

That care comes through in how customers talk about the place. On MapQuest, where the shop holds a 4.5-star rating across 11 reviews, one customer credits the team's patience through the frame selection process; another says the finished art looks like something you would see in a museum. A longtime customer writes that the staff is always friendly, helpful, and professional -- and names Leah specifically.

The shop's own site marked 2025 as its 45th year. For a county full of championship seasons, marathon finishes, and kids' first masterpieces, that is more than four decades of finishing touches. Find Bob's Art & Framing at 191 S Main St in New City, online at bobsartandframing.com, or by phone at (845) 634-6933.