Marketing Department at Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Strengthens

- New Berlin, NY, April 12, 2004 -

Dana Rice recently joined the Marketing department at Golden Artist Colors, Inc. as its new Product Manager. She will be responsible for managing specific product promotion projects and supporting the GOLDEN brand. She will also be tracking promotion results and acting as an additional liaison between the Marketing department and other departments at GOLDEN. Rice will have significant customer contact, discovering and evaluating new product opportunities. Her ability to be creative and innovative will help distinguish the company in its ability to address customer needs.

Prior to joining GOLDEN, Rice gained experience at two leading computer software companies. As a Product Manager at Unisys, she provided value-added support and oversaw software products designed to meet the needs of the newspaper market. While there, she helped to provide a robust end-to-end software solution for publishing pre-press operations. She was also responsible for advocating product and product direction to prospective customers through presentations, meetings and tradeshows, as well as working closely with the engineering group to determine appropriate technologies for new development.

Rice received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Minnesota. She also participated in the Summer Conference on Arts Management at the University of Massachusetts.

Rice currently resides with her husband, Ray Ouellet, in Burlington, N.Y. She has two stepchildren, Bryce and Craig, both of whom are in college in Maine and New Hampshire respectively.

“We are excited about this newly created position and are confident that Dana will excel in every facet of it,” said Jennifer McDowall, Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Marketing Director. “ The skills and professional experience that Dana brings to us will contribute substantially to growing our company from an excellent small business into an excellent global business.”

About Golden Artist Colors, Inc.

Founded in 1980 by the Golden family, Golden Artist Colors, Inc. began producing acrylic paint as a result of conversations with artists who needed new materials to help them explore more innovative ways of working with acrylic. The products that Sam Golden developed as the result of collaborations with these painters became his inspiration and central motif that he carried forward in the creation of GOLDEN.

Now a global brand, GOLDEN acrylics continue to extend the boundaries of painting through quality, innovative products born of a constant dialogue with artists, which drive the company’s innovation. Located in its expanding 60,000-square-foot facility in rural Columbus, N.Y., GOLDEN’s 110 employees are committed to producing materials that encourage exploration of form and concept, while assuring archival integrity. GOLDEN takes pride in the fact that its Custom Lab is the only facility of its kind, dedicated to designing products to the specifications of individual artists. Developing paints to meet exacting criteria is the specialty of GOLDEN’s custom operations. As a natural progression from our initiatives in the fine arts market, GOLDEN Paintworks was recently born. Paintworks is the commercial paint and coatings division of Golden Artist Colors, Inc. It provides commercial and OEM clients with paint making technology, toll manufacturing and integrated solutions. GOLDEN Paintworks can design a full solution to a coatings project based on its expertise designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling high performance paints and coatings. The company also assists customers with complex production, packaging and regulatory issues. For more information about Golden Artist Colors, Inc. and its comprehensive product offering, call 1-800-959-6543 or visit the company’s Web site at www.goldenpaints.com.