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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,
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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. "We always
knew the circle would continue,
but each meutlter within the Cir
cle has been frustrated enough to
throw up their hands and say. 'I
quit.' "
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