Brush Art Corporation

Name: Brush Art Corporation
Address: 343 US-24, Downs, KS, 67437, US
Telephone: +17854543383

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Brush Art Corporation | Full-Service Marketing and Advertising Agency

09/07/2026

Labor Day began as a way to recognize the contributions of American workers and the progress made toward fair wages, safer working conditions and reasonable hours.

More than a century later, that purpose is still worth remembering.

Across The Brush Group, we see the value of people and their work every day. From our teams at Brush Art, Donlevy and Sun Graphics, to the clients, businesses and industries we have the opportunity to serve, good work starts with good people.

Today is a day to step away from the work, spend time with the people who matter and enjoy a well-earned break.

It is also a day to appreciate the people whose work, past and present, has helped move us all forward.

Happy Labor Day from all of us at The Brush Group.

09/03/2026

In addition to meeting with our ag industry connections, you can’t experience the Farm Progress Show without sampling the “show food!” From Boone Cattlemen’s ribeye sandwiches and local BBQ to homemade pie, popcorn, ice cream and donuts, the Brush Art team is enjoying every delicious stop along the way. It’s a tough job – but someone has to do it!

09/01/2026

The Brush Art team is at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa! Beyond connecting with clients and industry friends, the show gives us a valuable read on agriculture heading into harvest and the critical fall and winter planning season. Listening, learning and staying close to the industry helps us create marketing grounded in what farmers are experiencing and what comes next.

08/25/2026

The Plane That Helped Us Grow is Flying Into the Sunset.

During more than two decades with Brush Art, the Baron traveled from Miami to Maine and from California to the Pacific Northwest. Tom Brush recalls flying it to visit every Caterpillar dealer in the United States at least once.

One of those journeys demonstrated just how dramatically the airplane could change the pace of business.

Brush Art had developed a new customized communications program for Cat dealers. Success depended on presenting it face-to-face, and reaching dealers before competitors could introduce something similar.

With the Baron, a Brush Art team could make two dealer presentations a day. They flew from Denver to Albuquerque, then on to Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego and beyond, meeting with dealers during the day and traveling to the next market at night.

In approximately five weeks, the team personally reached nearly every targeted dealer in the country.

A rollout that could have taken months reached its peak in weeks.

The Baron also helped Brush Art connect business operations located hours from its Downs headquarters. A five-and-a-half-hour drive became a flight of just over an hour, allowing employees to collaborate in person and still be home with their families that evening.

Tom remembers returning from client trips and spending the next morning opening projects that hadn’t existed just days earlier.

“We would come home with volumes of business,” he said. “It was only possible because of the Baron.”

The Baron helped Brush Art grow because it allowed us to do more of what has always mattered most: show up, listen, build relationships and act quickly on our clients’ needs.

Now, after more than two decades of service, the Baron is making way for Brush Art’s next chapter: a new aircraft offering greater speed, range, comfort and capacity to even better serve clients across the country.

It’s another big step for a Kansas agency that has never allowed its location to define its reach.

The aircraft is changing. The reason behind it is not.

Tim Brush summed it up best: “Wherever our clients need us, Brush Art will be ready to go.”

08/18/2026

As Brush Art’s relationships with Caterpillar and Cat® dealers expanded, so did the demands of travel. Meetings took our team to Peoria, Florida, California, the Northeast and nearly everywhere in between.

Before the Baron, every visit required navigating long drives, commercial airports, connections, delays and overnight stays. Those demands naturally limited how often our team could be face-to-face with clients.

The Baron changed that.

Brush Art could fly to Peoria, spend meaningful time with clients and return to Kansas that evening. According to Tom Brush, the agency went from visiting Caterpillar approximately every other month to being there nearly every month.

And the more often Brush Art showed up, the more opportunities emerged.

“When you were there in front of them, opportunities started happening,” Tom recalled. “Every time we went, more people would see us and say, ‘I didn’t know you were in town. I want to talk to you about a project.’”

Those visits helped Brush Art triple its Caterpillar-related business.

Clients no longer saw an agency constrained by its location. They saw a committed partner who consistently showed up. In practical terms, the Baron made a north central Kansas agency feel like it was right down the street.

That remains one of the airplane’s greatest legacies: It helped Brush Art turn geographic distance into greater client closeness.

Its place in the Brush family story is personal, too. Jake Brush, part of the third generation of Brushes engaged in the business, named his oldest son Baron. His sister, Savana, remembers as a young girl watching her dad Tim flying off from the small airport in Osborne, KS. “Now I fly on it to meet with my clients,” she said.

The name, and the story behind it, will remain part of the Brush legacy long after the plane’s final flight.

But the Baron wasn’t finished expanding Brush Art’s horizons. Soon, it would carry the agency on an ambitious journey across the country, one that would have been almost impossible to accomplish any other way.

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08/13/2026

Scott McClure is in Kansas City this week for the 21st Annual NAMA Boot Camp, and he’ll be taking the stage Friday morning to moderate the “Growing Your Career” panel discussion.

If you’re attending Boot Camp, stop by Friday, August 14 from 9–10:15 a.m. to hear from the panel and say hi to Scott while you’re there.

We’re glad to have Scott representing the Brush Art team and helping lead the conversation!

08/11/2026

Before Brush Art owned an airplane, serving clients often meant long drives or driving hours to a commercial airport, connecting through another city and hoping weather and airline schedules cooperated.

Then, in the early 2000s, Tom Brush, Brush Art vice president of sales, joined a client on a flight from north central Kansas to an agricultural field day in southwest Kansas.

They attended the event, took photos, met with industry contacts, stopped to visit another dealer, and returned home that afternoon.

The same trip by car could have taken 10 to 12 hours.

Tom remembers walking back into the Brush Art office and saying: “We’ve got to have a plane.”

It was a bold statement for a small marketing agency in Downs, Kansas. An airplane seemed like something larger companies owned, not a practical tool for an agency that had once shared road vehicles because buying another one was financially out of reach.

But Tom had experienced what an airplane could make possible in a single day.

Brush Art initially considered a single-engine aircraft. As the Brush family studied the investment, however, they decided that if employees and clients were going to fly in it, they wanted the added security of two engines. They chose a used twin-engine Beechcraft Baron 58.

From the initial demonstration to signing the papers and flying the Baron home took only about four months.

The Baron wasn’t purchased for prestige. It was purchased with a purpose: to help Brush Art be there for its clients.

Still, no one could have fully predicted what would happen once Brush Art began flying it to client meetings.

One relationship, in particular, was about to take off.

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08/04/2026

It never sat at a desk. It never attended a creative review. And it never presented a campaign.

But for more than 20 years, a Beechcraft Baron 58 has played an important role in helping Brush Art become the nationally recognized marketing agency it is today.

Headquartered in Downs, Kansas, Brush Art has always faced a geographic reality: The nearest major airport is hours away. But our clients and our capabilities have never been limited by geography.

Purchased in 2004, the Baron changed what was possible. It enabled our team to reach clients across the country more quickly, efficiently and personally. We spent less time getting there and more time doing what matters: building relationships, understanding our clients’ businesses and helping them succeed.

Now, after thousands of miles, countless client visits and more than two decades of service, the Baron is retiring.

Over the next few posts, we’ll tell the story of the airplane that helped a small Kansas marketing agency expand its reach, grow its business and become an even more responsive, client-focused partner.

As Tim Brush, Brush Art president and CEO put it: “That airplane won us a lot of business – by making us a better agency.”

But the story of the Baron didn’t begin with a business plan. It began with a single flight across Kansas, and one realization that changed Brush Art’s future.

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07/28/2026

For more than 18 years, Brush Art has partnered with state and tribal Women, Infant and Children (WIC) programs to support outreach, enrollment, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and benefit utilization.

Our portfolio now includes work with more than 30 state and Indian Tribal Organization WIC programs nationwide, including 14 current multi-year partnerships. We’re proud to help WIC programs connect with families through thoughtful, effective communication.

07/22/2026

Seeing these improvements come to life at Lakeside High School is exciting, and we’re grateful to have played a small part in helping create spaces where students can learn, perform, and grow for years to come.

Thank you to Lakeside High School for sharing the progress. We can’t wait to see the finished results!

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343 US-24
Downs, KS
67437

Telephone

+17854543383

Website

https://www.brushart.com/

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