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AN EVENING WITH CREATE YOUR OWN T-SHIRTS FROM PHOTOS ARTWORK A SLIDES <M LOGOS ^ AND MORE kinko's the copy center 344-7894 800 List 13th Gtfret Ajoss from Li of 0 Books!. 344-3555 \ .-Emerald 7 Pass it on. ! (please) Help our successful recycling program on campus by putting the Oregon Dally Emerald back in its original rackwnen you'Ve finished 1 reading it. This Will allow another \ person to read it and/or be easily picked up for recycling. RESUMES Have your resume professionally typeset at Letter Perfect Graphics Suite 500 EMU 346-4381 9-5 Mon-Ffl Shop reveals circle of artists By Meg Dedolph Ortgon Oofy l cnwaW Imagine walking into your favorite store to buy a sweater, t oil pick one out and take it up to the counter to pay Instead of the usual question — "Will that Ice cash. chec k or r barge?" ■ the c lerk says. "Did you know Susan over there made this7 That's her son on the floor c hew ing on his foot — he'll be two in a week or so." Kit Kirk, co-manager of Circle of Hands, believes every store should la* like that, and workers should tell c ustomers more about the people behind the goods in the store “I like being able to walk into a store and have someone tell me. 'John Q So-and-So made this,-" kirk said We can offer customer servic e above and beyond any one else We c an tell them just about anything about an artist." l ire I*- of Hands is a c olics live* store m the Kugene Mall that rep resents more than 75 local artists, selling goods from clothing and jewelry to pottery, vvalerc oiors and wall hangings. 'Hie colics live, whic h includes 17 of the artists, runs the store and makes all store decisions by consensus 'There's usually very few things we do not reach consen sus cm, Kirk said "These aren't 18 people standing in a room We hove a similar i ision We want to educate the public into letting them know that there are real people who make these things." Kirk said Circle of Hands wants to supply artists with a "vehicle for sale The artists who are not part of the collective either sell their goods through Circ le of Hands on consignment only and do not volunteer time In the stem* or work in the store in exihange for a lower c onsignment rate Artists who want to sell their goods through (arc It* of Hands go through a |urs process where samplers of their work are judged In members of the collective leased on quality, craftsmanship, originality and whether the prtxi net will fit in with the other goods being sold If the artist's work is ac cepted, it is sold on consignment for three months and profits are split 80-40 lietween the c rafter and the Photo by Anthony Foro^y Five year-old Camas Hyland ol Eugene plays with a llfeslze Batik doll at Circle ol Hands. The doll was crafted by Marla Faulders. store If the artist < (looses to work in the store in exchange for a high er profit, the store receives only lri percent of the sales and the artist re< eives fiTi percent Members of the collective pay each month and 17 percent on anv sales more than S100; eat h member spends about four and-one-half hours working in the store each week. Each col let tile member also serves on committees ranging from finance todispla) and promotion. Kach month, an artist's work is sells ted and featured in a gallery like setting in the back of the store ((in le ol Hands began when the founders, six of whom still sell through the store, realized that ( rafters selling onlv at the Saturday Market missed oppor tunities for sales the other six days of the week I thought of those beautiful things not for sale fanunry. Feb ruary and March," said )udi l.uthrie, one of the founders. "Hut our families still eat those months There was thousands and thousands of dollars of tner i handise sitting in car trunks, garages and garbage hags The store's name came from the cm les the members made while first dei tiling how to run the store, and at the beginning and end of each day, Guthrie said. The shop originally opened in September 1991. on Pearl Street, Toe Department of Homatue Umpuatje^ preoento: Poetry & \/{rt by C ecilia \ 7ictuui Monday. May 10 • 3:30 p.m. • Ben Linder Room. EMU Chant and Poetry of the Ikndes a contemporary reflection • (A bilingual poetry reading) Tuesday. May 1t • 3:30 p.m. • Walnut Room. EMU An Andean Autobiography in Art C o-OftmooeeJ hy: the Latin Amt rutin Support Committee am* the Center (or the Shu \ of VL'omen in StH iety and moved to its Eugene Mall location a year later. "We moved to the downtown mall Ihm Jluse as local artists, we want to see the local mall work. We're all firm believers in the corn of the city." said Steve Oppenheimer. one of the found ing members of the collective. |oy Tsunka. of Morning Star Studios, said the amount of walk by traffic on the mall is an improvement over the store's old location. "A lot of customers who come by during lunch break might not buy then, but see something that catches their eve and come hack later.” she said. Despite times when Oppen heimer and other collective mem Iters looked at the store's accounts and wondered where the mon ey would come from to keep the store open. Oppenheimer said he always knew the store would make it "We had all guaranteed our selves at least a year together," Oppenheimer said "After the year ended, it just continued. The most amazing thing is that we've been together for .h) months, we started friends, we're still friends and still a family.” Being a member of Circle of Hands is not without frustration. Oppenheimer said. 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