You can help by donating material items such as icon boards, brushes, and paper products, or by purchasing gift cards for the Institute from the businesses listed below.
To make a monetary contribution, please click here for our DONATE page.
Our Wish List
Items purchased through our Amazon Wish List
are needed all year long. Your support through our wish list directly impacts the quality of education and resources we provide to our students.
All purchased items are shipped directly to the Institute.
Classroom Needs
- Elmo Projector & Document Camera: For classroom teaching.
- Water: Contribution toward Sierra Springs water delivery
- Decorative Display Easels: High-quality easels safely display icons at the altar.
- Professional Convertible/Adjustable Painter’s Easel: Large enough to handle heavy, large-scale icon boards in both vertical and flat orientations for painting commissions.
- Custom Kiot: To display and transport historic icons safely, we need a custom-made kiot with non-breakable, museum-quality plexiglass.
- Laminating & Cricut Machine: For producing in-class materials.
- Paper goods: We always need paper plates, paper towels and toilet tissue.
Supplies
By providing our classrooms with
state-of-the-art equipment and materials, you help create an optimal learning environment.
Please contact director@classicaliconography.org to make arrangements to ship items.
Other Supplies
- Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint for finishing the edges and back of icons (Iron Oxide, Alizarin Crimson)
- Manetti Gold Leaf
- Sketchbooks
- Cosmetic Brush Pads
- Sandpaper – Grit #400, #600, #800
- Lab Spatulas
- Oval Foundation Brushes
- 50lb Kraft Paper (36”) on a roll to cover tables
- Wax paper (for wrapping icons)
- 2 oz glass dropper bottles
- Bounty paper towels (best for our method of painting)
- 11 x 17” 6 mil laminating pouches
- Ceramic chopstick rests
- The Masters Brush Cleaner & Preserver (24 oz tub)
- Ampersand Claybord 3.5”x3.5”, or 4”x4”
- Saral Paper 12” x 12 foot roll in red & white
- OMYA Frenge Rouge Gesso Powdered Marble
- Rabbit Skin Glue Crystals
- Knox Gelatin
- Wundasize, gilding size (Pacific Coast Sign Supply)
Gift Cards
Gift cards provide us with the flexibility to purchase exactly what we need, when we need it. This allows us to respond quickly to urgent needs or take advantage of special sales and discounts.
Services
- Someone to sew an Institute branded Paintbrush Roll (pattern & canvas provided)
- Someone to sew an Institute branded Painting Apron (pattern & canvas provided
Gently Used
Items
Do you have pigments or brushes you’re no longer using? Contact us to donate gently used supplies!