By snoadmin
Hapa Collective does not just collect art, but allows artists to customize and sell their own unique, vintage products.
Located in Seal Beach, Hapa Collective serves as an outlet for artists and designers to start selling and promoting their products.
Owners Mike and Janet Peters opened up the store in March of this year.
Janet Peters, who attended Long Beach City College, was a Palos Verdes resident originally. This year, however, she and her husband moved back to the area to open Hapa Collective.
The style of the store has a vintage feel with new art pieces coming in all the time. The store is an artist consignment store, meaning that artists can come in and work with the owners to sell their items.
“We deal primarily with artists. We have about almost 60 in-house [artists] right now and they do anything from purses to t-shirts to jewelry to artwork,” Mike Peters said.
The pieces in this shop range from several different styles, like embellished hats, decorative flasks, original gift bag ideas and graphic tees.
“There is just a huge variety of eclectic items. It kind of fits anybody for what they’re looking for,” Mike Peters said.
While most of the knick-knacks and accessories are more artist-based, Hapa Collective also has products such as some of the purses, which are not as unique as its other pieces.
In order to sell their products, artists have to make an appointment with one of the owners.
“They usually bring in their goods and we ask them their price point — what they need to get out of [their pieces], what we need to sell it at and if it makes sense for both of us we bring it in,” Mike Peters said.
Although the artists and owners work collaboratively to decide the prices on their items, the shop keeps the range relatively low.
“We try to keep our price point low. We are definitely not a high-end store,” Mike Peters said.
On Oct. 29 and 30, Hapa Collective will be participating in the Sidewalk Sale all down Main Street from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce provides the Sidewalk Sale in conjunction with Founders Day.
Hapa Collective is located approximately five minutes away from the Cal State Long Beach campus.
Any artists or designers at CSULB who are interested in presenting and selling their work can call Hapa Collective at (562) 296-8578 and make an appointment with the owners.
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