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Exhibit: Silk Accessories
Wearable silk art is featured this month at Opus 5 Gallery, 136 E. Broadway.
Local artist Betsy Conlin’s
wearable art accessories are cur
rently on display at Opus 5
Gallery.
The exhibit of silk scarves and
other accessories is Conlin’s first
at the Gallery. Her designs ex
plore the French technique of
Gutta Serti, a resist-dye method.
Gutta is a natural latex which is
used to outline shapes. It is
squeezed through a small ap
plicator bottle after which dye is
painted into the outlined areas.
Her most recent work is in
spired by African textiles and
music; the work is more
rhythmic and textural. Although
she has received degrees in fine
arts, the Gutta Serti technique
has been learned by Conlin
through experimentation.
She has taught this process to
students at the Maude Kerns Art
Center, LCC, and the EMU
Crafts Center. “When I make
art that is wearable I feel that I
am providing raw material for
some other artists’ work. I like
knowing that my handpainted
silks, when combined with the
imagination of the owners, will
become new works of art,” Con
lin says.
The exhibit continues through
pie month of May. The Gallery
is at 136 E. Broadway on the
downtown mall. Hours are
Monday-Saturday, 10-5:30.
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The Genesis Juke Story—
from one who was there.
Dear Editor and Paul Ollswang:
That was a nice feature article about
Genesis Juice, which described the intent
of its members accurately. It did make
some very significant mistakes I thought
I’d correct.
I was a member of Genesis Juice from
Oct. 1977 to June 1979, a very struggling
and early time for the co-op.
The biggest error you printed was about
the original health of the business. It was
not a “soon to go under juice business,"
but a very healthy business owned by an
intelligent, creative person. Bill Snyder. He
had begun the Juice Bar at the 5th St. Pub
lic Market, and things were going well at
the warehouse on Almaden St.
This was a happening time for co-ops,
and many workers wanted to convert Gen
esis Juice Company into a cooperative. Bill
allowed that to happen in a very reasonable
way, beginning May 1, 1977. I believed it
to be a very fair deal for a thriving busi
ness. Bill had to be persuaded to sell to
the co-op. but the enthusiasm was there
among the workers.
Worker-owner ideals were high, and the
cooperative began with lowering prices and
relaxing the structures. In the first 6
months the co-op made a number of naive
mistakes and sank seriously into debt, as
well as needing to meet $600 monthly pay
ments to buy the business from Bill. In one
two-day period we lost over $2,000—by
bottling a bad batch of juice that had to
be done over again. Efficiency was low,
despite spirit being high. Bill Snyder even
joined the co-op as an equal worker to try
to help it pull together, but we had gotten
about $10,000 in debt by winter of 1977.
In Spring of 1978 economics were so
bleak that we had tentatively agreed to sell
the juice making business entirely, and
keep a small co-op at 5th St. Market only.
The apple companies were owed lotsa
money, and were refusing to sell us apples
until we paid our debts.
We halfheartedly found a buyer and even
took down payment money. Just before
signing the co-op away, we decided to give
it another try, largely because two of us
stuck ourselves out on a limb with loans
and pledges of near martyrdom. Between
the down payment cash and what Richard
Calicrate and I loaned the co-op, we strug
gled ahead and made some strong man
agement decisions, like raising the price
and selling much less juice and acquiring
more labor saving equipment. One anal
ysis proved that our carrot juice prices
were so low that the more we sold, the
more money we lost. And we were way
too labor intensive with minimal
equipment.
Our volume dropped at least by half, but
we began to pay off debts and run the bus
iness more efficiently. Our first priority
was to repay the “down payment money,”
which we all felt poorly about taking and
spending. .
Over the next four years we slowly paid
off the debts, the business was paid off and
Richard and I were eventually repaid. I'm
delighted and proud to see Genesis Juice
co-op still serve our community as it does.
—Ken Meyer
Cottage Grove
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