The Utah nonprofit Clever Octopus, which resold arts and craft supplies that would otherwise have gone to the landfill, has announced that it is closing its doors permanently.
Aside from selling art materials, such as paint brushes and fabric, the shop offered workshops and classes for adults and youth, grants for schools and teachers, and aid to local businesses through waste diversion partnerships — which also includedOwners Sheri Gibb and Jen Lopez met during a ceramics class at the University of Utah, and soon hatched the idea for the store.
In 2019, Kacy Huston, the store’s outreach coordinator at the time, said the store’s mascot went with its mission. “Octopuses are really resourceful,” Huston said. “They can change their skin color to blend in with their surroundings. They can use different debris in the ocean as shelter. We’re trying to be clever octopuses, thereby being resourceful with what we already have.”
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