Top 5607 Art Craft Hobby Store Chains in the US (2026)

State by state

The leading art craft hobby store chains in every state

Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hobby Lobby leads in 42 states, Michaels in 7 states and DC, and Ben Franklin Crafts in 1 state. Against their share in the US as a whole, Hobby Lobby stands out in 26 states, Michaels in 22 states, and Ben Franklin Crafts in 1 state.

Relative to the US #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in 26 states

Arkansas 1.4×, Kansas 1.4×, Oklahoma 1.4×, Alabama 1.3×, South Carolina 1.3×, Tennessee 1.3×, Arizona 1.2×, Georgia 1.2×, Idaho 1.2×, Indiana 1.2×, Iowa 1.2×, Kentucky 1.2×, Mississippi 1.2×, North Dakota 1.2×, South Dakota 1.2×, Texas 1.2×, West Virginia 1.2×, Wisconsin 1.2×, Louisiana 1.1×, New Mexico 1.1×, North Carolina 1.1×, Ohio 1.1×, Wyoming 1.1×, Missouri 1×, Utah 1×, Nebraska 0.9×
Michaels
Relative #1 in 22 states

Alaska 2.4×, Rhode Island 2.2×, Connecticut 1.9×, Massachusetts 1.9×, Maryland 1.7×, Virginia 1.7×, Delaware 1.5×, New Hampshire 1.5×, New Jersey 1.5×, Minnesota 1.4×, Pennsylvania 1.4×, California 1.3×, Montana 1.3×, Illinois 1.2×, Maine 1.2×, Florida 1.1×, Washington 1.1×, Colorado 1×, Michigan 1×, Nevada 0.9×, New York 0.9×, Oregon 0.9×
Ben Franklin Crafts
Relative #1 in Hawaii, over 10× its share in the US

No ranked chain with 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there: District of Columbia, Vermont

Hobby Lobby
#1 in 42 states

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Michaels
#1 in 7 states and DC

Alaska, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia
Ben Franklin Crafts
#1 in Hawaii

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Texas Art Supply and Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Texas Art Supply	▲5	+17.9%
2	Hobby Lobby	-	+17.7%
3	The Game Shoppe	▲4	+15.2%
4	Blick Art Materials	▲1	+14.7%
5	Glazed Expressions	▲4	+14.7%
6	Grandmaster Games	▲1	+12.3%
7	Stitch by Stitch	▲5	+11.9%
8	Jerry's Artarama	▲1	+10.9%
9	Fabrictopia	▲6	+10.2%
10	Guiry's	▲2	+9.6%
11	Hands On	▲1	+8.8%
12	The Portal	▲4	+7.6%
13	Utrecht Art Supplies	▲1	+5.4%
14	Amazing Glaze	▲3	+4.9%
15	CeramiCafe	▲2	+4.7%

Hobby Lobby
Michaels
Blick Art Materials
Color Me Mine
Paper Source
Craft Warehouse
Jerry's Artarama
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

9,859 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,776 of the 9,859 stores (28%); 5,280 of the 5,607 tracked chains have a single store here.