![]() ![]() Lisa Frank’s mailman since 1996 Ray Champaco says that the factory is now a ghost of a building. The Lisa Frank factory which is located in Tucson, Arizona is empty. Lisa Frank’s business spiraled downward due to “legal battles over ownership and bad manufacturing deals,” reports the New York Times Student Journalism Institute. For this, Lisa Frank brand lost its popularity and disappeared from the public eye. When I think back it was kind of a sad and scary time.” Lisa Frank disappeared due to issues with the Lisa Frank company. A lot of the reps were gay, all of my friends were dying around me, it was crazy. When Sticky Fingers took off this was the day of AIDS. Vice shared an interview the artist had with Foundations, in which she states that most of her reps that first worked with her on “Sticky Fingers” were passing away rapidly due to AIDS.įrank recalls, “I made a little assembly line in my guest house of people putting all of this stuff together for me. Lisa Frank’s first product “Sticky Fingers” was a jewelry line that she described to hold a “Carmen Miranda” feel. She remembers selling her first products during the AIDS epidemic. It’s a fireproof vault where we keep a copy of every product that we ever made.” ![]() In the beginning, computers weren’t where they are today, and so we used acrylic paint and an airbrush to paint everything in our offices. I, mean, yet we have to stop me and say, okay, it’s enough, because one illustration gets hundreds of hours in it, it’s really, you know, kind of madness. She goes on to state that in a digital world, the Lisa Frank brand has stayed true to its art by still painting their designs.įrank states, “I’m crazy. We’re in my office in Tucson, Arizona,” she begins in the documentary. “I’m Lisa Frank and for everyone who wants to know if I do exist, I do exist. She still asked not to appear on camera, but viewers got to know more about her. In the documentary, entitled “The World Of Lisa Frank,” released in 2012, Ross takes a deeper look into Frank’s world. Until Scott Ross traveled all the way to Tucson, Arizona to meet the woman behind the popular 90’s art. Lisa Frank has kept her identity hidden for many years. GIF via She hasn’t revealed her true identity until recently. I loved to read, I loved to do artwork, I loved to do anything girly.” When I was 12, my parents got me a loom, so I was a weaver. She continues, “I was totally a girly girl. I think to keep me quiet, they would bring the coloring books and crayons, and I would fill up the books,” says Frank. ![]() I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer. “My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement and we would make pottery. When she was young she attended a prep school that had attendees such as Mitt and Ann Romey and said that her love for art began at an early age. At the time it was the only company to make engine bearings for tanks in WWII. The company was created by Frank’s grandfather in 1925 and went on to be successful. Lisa Frank’s father ran an automotive company known as Detroit Aluminum & Brass. Bloomfield Hills ranks as one of the top five wealthiest cities in America. Lisa Frank came from a wealthy family and reigns from Bloomfield Hills, Detroit. ![]()
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