I believe and prefer to buy locally, but not here. And Im sad about that, because WOW! What a great selection, but the 3 out 3 times Ive gone in, theres no customer service. But the moment I start adjusting my mask to see; I checked and no one is standing near me... but suddenly, out of nowhere a double masked young lady is telling me to put my mask on. DUDE! Every time, including once when the mask mandate was lifted! She never asked to help me find what Im looking for, even though I told her I cannot see and was adjusting my mask and glasses.I tried... I giveup. You guys have lost the value of customer service, regardless of your inventory. Sad.

Montana paint pens! Refillable and retippable. Also oil based sharpie paint pens in stock. Just went in for a white an got all these

So many different colors and shades of spray paint, and lots of fun art supplies. This store is fabulous !

I LOVE THIS ART STORE!!! Every time I come in I’m so floored with the selection and the helpfulness of the staff. Their enthusiasm for art and the attentiveness they provide really tells me they care about the artist community and what they sell. I make this place my go-to and if I were rich I’d come into this store every day no joke!

I am out of town for 4 years… this is the first place I go when I come back to visit. It’s that good.

This place has an amazing selection of everything you need to art!

Helpful, friendly staff. The shop is well stocked with a vast array of art supplies.Lots of other colorful fun stuff.

I love this art store!! Its a super good specialty store, and always worth a visit! They follow COVID regulations and such very well, and have very helpful staff.

Always well stocked. Very professional and knowledgeable staff.

It has everything. Im like a kid in a candy store there

Most helpful and courteous people.

Good selection and pleasant staff. Surprised I didnt find any fountain pens or Noodlers ink, at least of notable brands.Plenty of calligraphy gear and paint supplies, presents itself as more of a canvas than paper store.

A wonderful art store with knowledgeable staff ❤

I had a lovely experience and wanted to stay and browse, but got what I wanted and left to respect their covid policies. Looking forward to browsing in the future.

A delightful art store with a wide selection of art supplies. Good for professional or for beginner artists. Knowledgeable staff, very friendly!

Very helpful and courteous.

Great staff, great products! Always super friendly help available, and an awesome selection of art supplies.

VERY helpful staff! I am a complete novice when it comes to art supplies, but I decided I wanted to learn how to watercolor paint and the staff helped pick out reasonably priced tube paints and other essentials to get going.

They sell an insane selection of specialized art supplies - I was surprised to find golden paints, spray paints, and many a variety of gouache. Any marker youve heard of youll quite possibly find here, alcohol based, water based, and paint markers like Posca. Also wood panels for painting, which Id never seen in any other art store! If youre looking for more hard to find stuff, and even common art supplies, this is the place to go. And all reasonably priced!

I love Dakota!! They have everything I need and the best service and fabulous people!!

Awesome service! Awesome stuff!

The store is great. I dont know if Im not cool enough, but I was not asked once in 15 minutes if I needed help finding anything, which I very much did.

Wonderful, knowledgeable & helpful staff. Go there!

Not a great selection of oil paints.

Best place for art supplies. They are knowledgeable, nice and so willing to help. I could literally live here with all the paints.

Great staff, great selection. Theyre always up to discuss and educate on whatever at supply you might be interested in. Prices are comparable to chain stores as well.

Before COVID-19, they would have weekly life drawing classes on Wednesdays. Its really cool, because they seem to be really dedicated to providing an accessible community resource for artists and hobbyists alike. Plus its always kind of affirming to meet other artists, and Dakota provides a great space to do that.

Always helpful and friendly. Great selection, even for hard to find items.

We always check this place out when visiting Bellingham. Its so much fun, and the staff is very helpful.

Absolutely wonderful art store! Great location and selection of supply. The staff are always helpful and friendly.

Great store please support the only art supply store in downtown, but really they have a better choice then Michaels, if less ceiling room. They also have a gallery. Biggest selling point for me is the choice independent verse corporate. You get five time more community from community, then off corporate,. Go downtown so You can buy huge canvases at Dakotas

When I first came into the store, I was expecting it to have all the average art supplies you can get anywhere at a bit of a markup. I cant overstate how wrong I was. They have a vast and exciting variety of nearly everything you could need. When I finally found what I needed, it was less than half as expensive as I thought it would be. Once I had what I wanted, I went to the best part of the store. The staff! The people at the register were simply delightful. One of them asked about my favorite animal, and then drew a lovely cute sketch of it on the bag for my supplies. They were so friendly and I will certainly go there again.

Great store, long employed very knowledgeable customer service from friendly local experts. Always learn something from them. Highly recommended.

Love this store. Super duper friendly and helpful staff. Great selection. I just got a wood canvas, it’s pretty cool. They also have art shows on first Fridays.

Lots of art supplies.

What a great store. What great service. Walked in on a mission to buy a present for an artist that I know. I had a only rough idea of the supplies I was looking for. Before I knew it, I was quickly and thoroughly guided by the knowledgeable staff to exactly what I needed.

Very nice art store! Ive purchased a number of supplies and have been very happy with everything Ive purchased so far. I love their selection of fine watercolor paints, they are just beautiful and high quality. They have quite a selection of different supplies for different needs. Their staff is always friendly and helpful. The price seems pretty average for nice art supplies but I havent checked out a whole lot or other places either. It is my favorite store to go to now. :)

A great variety of supplies at really reasonable prices. The staff are really knowledgeable and friendly. Definitely my favorite place to get art supplies for watercolor and drawing. Good selection of brush pens for lettering as well.

The staff are all artists and are happy to use their knowledge and experience to help you get what you need.

Caters to the local, student artists and carries supplies for almost type of media. They also have a gallery which rotates art fairly often. Good selection of micron pens.

Its the only real Art supply store around, where you can walk in and pick up and look at supplies! Great gallery attached to the store!

This place is awesome! They have a great selection if not the best selection of high end spray paints. Montana, liquitex and others. Great LOCAL place for art supplies.

Dakota Arts is my number one stop for art supplies. The staff is friendly and funny. They also hire people who are artists so you know that they know the material. The prices are also pretty good for the quality of their supplies, especially with it being a small company. If you feel overwhelmed by your options just ask one of the employees and they will gladly help you out.

Went in and was helped right away. Purchased a few items and left.

I am no artist but it seems like they have everything; for different media and skill levels. They even have a lot of material specifically geared toward kids. The staff is helpful, encouraging, and quick to share their various art knowledge.

Blown away at the selection! But... My GF can never find out. So Ill be requesting they never advertise. Ever!!! :)

Very good art store lots of supplies nice people amazing costumer service and if youre comfortable they will hang your art up in their store

The staff were so helpful and kind with all questions regarding classes equipment and even about easels from other stores

Amazing art supplies. Had items I have not seen in other stores. Great staff help as well. Highly recommend.

Great selection of art supplies, and friendly store employees.

Ladies that helped me were super nice, very knowledgeable, it is a very nice store, great place to pick up art supplies. They liked my corny jokes which is also a huge plus

Seems to have everything. In old Downtown Bellingham.

Love the 10x10 graph paper. Love the pen selection. Request: Keep a rotating stock of random pens from Japan coming in.

Pretty cool art store. Wish the people were a bit more friendly.

A fantastic little art store with a gallery of art as well! They have a wide variety of supplies and have just about anything youd need!

Sweet staff. They didnt have a paper i needed but offered to order it. They have items that most craft chains dont carry and they have open stock pastels and color pencils. They also have a huge wall of Golden art supplies as well.

Favorite art store, super friendly and helpful staff. Great selection!✍🎨😁❣

Only place in town that I can find watercolor blocks :)

The best place in Bellingham for all of your art supplies. Helpful staff.

Always find what I need there and have always had my questions answered. Wish paint supplies didnt cost so much, but hard to find similar quality online that costs much less.

Great staff, clean and organized.

This store has really good selection and is really afforable

Fantastic selection of product. Knowledgeable and helpful staff!

Art supplies, materials and more, now with a great new gallery space with a monthly featured exhibits. Dakota is run by artists and has the friendliest most knowledgeable staff you can find downtown.

Great selection of quality supplies. It was worth the hour drive from our town to here

Friendly faces and helpful hands operate this community oriented Art store.The selection in store is wide, but not necessarily deep. If you dont see something specific youre looking for, the staff is more than happy to order it from one of their suppliers if they can. With that said Ive never left without something I needed.Students get a discount with proof of enrollment, an ID works fine, which makes some of the pricing comperable to online retailers.There is a 2.5hr quick pose figure drawing session available Wednesdays for $15 (as of 4/19) which is a fantastic way to hone your skills. It seems other classes are offered from community members, but Ive yet to take one.Lastly there is a gallery attached that rotates monthly with Bellinghams Artwalk and often showcases artists from the community.

Love this art supply store and amazing that they have a exhibition space attached to it! It can be a little pricey but art is never cheap.

Really friendly employees and the prices are nearly the same as the internet, Im much happier to support this place. Wish they had high end technical drawing stuff (lead holders, hardened straightedges, measuring instruments, etc) but its pretty rare now anyway.

Cute cute! Good prices! Very sweet workers!

Wonderful art supply store. People running it are very helpful and friendly. Great selection.

Thanks for the art supplies, got some markers and paper!

Excellent selection of art supplies and lovely gallery

Awesome & eclectic selection of art supplies and displays.

Best art store in town hands down.

Everything art supply is another word for this place. They have all you need if you draw, form, frame or paint.

I didnt know about Dakota Art Store before many of my friends started working there, and in fact hadnt ever noticed the location until the converted Dakota Gallery drew me in. Dakota definitely has the highest quality art supplies in town, and is a great destination for any artist to get supplies.

Good selection amd helpfull staff

Really nice and the people working there are really helpful! And there are so many supplies! Its an artists dream 😁

Great selection of art supplies. Decently priced items for being downtown and a smaller company.

Been going to this place for over a decade. They have a good selection of supplies, and the workers are friendly and helpful!

Dakota offers individual Posca paint markers. No more running out of my fave colors!

Awesome little art store, they have a bit of everything, a very friendly helpful staff, and theyre local!

Great staff, quality products. My favorite art store!

Workers are VERY nice, supplies is amazing, I found everything I need, and more 😊

This store has the best selection of fine art supplies in whatcom county. The staff is always friendly and helpful.

Found just about everything I needed (and plenty I didnt know I needed) and the staff are really nice.

Great and colourful place to get art supplies.

Really friendly, very helpful, and definitely tries to cover all mediums of art. Hugh quality products

A wide variety of art supplies and very friendly, helpful staff.

They have an exhibit attached with amazing art. I check it out each time Im there. They have a wide array of art products.

Large inventory - great customer service!

Great place to get all you need.

Says they are open for curbside pick up what they meant to say is that they are closed

Great selection of unique supplies, knowledgeable staff, and decent prices.

I visited from out of town, and I gotta say...not the best selection, and pretty expensive. But the staff are delightful!

So many art supplies and coloring books! Definitely a good place to spend a paycheck or three.

Its a little expensive but they have way more fine art supplies then Michels. They have all different kinds of papers its a pretty great place.

Such a friendly and knowledgeable staff!

People that work there are friendly and helpful

Its there any Copic Markers sold here?