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Art & Sole Comfort Shoes is a
full service shoe store and *repair
facility. We are located in Portland, Oregon at the intersection of
North Interstate Avenue and Rosa Parks Blvd. We are open 5 days a week
Tuesday through Friday 10-6 and Saturday 12-5. Monday by appointment.
If you are in Portland call 503-285-SHOE (7463) or toll-free 1-877-285-SHOE
(7463).
SCHOOL FUNDRAISERS: CHIEF JOSEPH AND BEACH SCHOOL
We are asking the community for help raising money for two local 2008
school benefit auctions. If you can make a donation of cash or goods
and services please jump to our blog
for details.
If you would like to attend a really fun event(s) where you can eat
great food, drink and bid on great merchandise, dinners, getaways, art,
tattoos, SHOES and listen to JACK STRAW, read on... and then get in
to our store and buy your tickets!
Here are the details for Night of Magic, put on by the Chief Joseph
Elementary School PTA. Tickets are $20 per person and this includes
a great selection of food prepared by Grolla
Restaurant & Wine Bar + beer & wine. March 7th, 6:30 to
10:00 p.m. at North Star
Ballroom. Swing-era music provided by the Carroll
Raaum Swing Orchestra.
Beach School's benefit auction will be held on April 12, at Magdalene
Parish Hall in NE Portland. Tickets are $25 per person and this includes
dinner and live music by JACK STRAW
Acoustic bluegrass. 7:00 p.m.
Tickets for both events can be purchase at Art & Sole.
Mission:
We are dedicated to improving the quality of life for our customers
by ensuring comfort and safety, through proper fitting footwear
that promotes healthy legs and feet.
Company History:
Art & Sole was started in a small North Portland garage in 2001
by Marty Krogh Jr. who was moving from a ten year career in Graphic
Design (click here to see design Portfolio);
back to his roots as a "shoe dog". "I grew up selling
and fixing shoes in my dad's shops and I always knew that fixing shoes
was a pretty good outlet for my creative side". With my graphic
design background I was able to create a very compelling and effective
niche website that quickly enabled people from all over the country
to send their beloved Birkenstocks to my shop. After a year of splitting
my time between freelance graphic design and refining my repair skills
I walked away from the handful of design clients I had, and leased the
space Art & Sole now occupies. This location in North Portland looked
a little neglected upon first glance but it didn't take a lot of vision
to see that with a new light
rail line under construction, this would no doubt be an excellent
location over time. Rumors of a New
Season's Market were confirmed with a quick phone call and that
was all I needed to take the plunge (along with my business plan). Since
opening we have expanded into the space next door which houses our inventory
and extra equipment. We also convinced Mark at Revolver
Bikes that this corner would be great for his bike shop ensuring
us a really cool neighbor.
Sustainability:
*(special
notice: As of 1/1/07 Art & Sole has cut back our repair services
to only minor repairs, sewing rips, shoe shines and stretching; in order
to grow our retail business). Every day people come into our store
and talk about how shoes simply can not be repaired today; like they
used to be. That is true. It takes creative new approaches and willingness
to take chances and the possibility of failure. New materials, adhesives,
techniques and tools are used in our shop which simply did not exist
a 10 years ago. This is not to say that we don't get old school on this
stuff. In fact, there are still many great manufactures building high
quality shoes, boots and sandals, based on decades of tradition and
we have the ability to combine traditional techniques with new solutions,
that keeps this stuff on the road. Having said that I will say that
about 1 in 20 pair that comes through our doors is turned down simply
because it's not worth investing in, but you just never really know
until you bring it in and we take a look at the challenge. We take pride
in performing high quality repairs that prevent more junk from being
buried in the dirt or floated on a garbage barge.
Community:
Art & Sole is dedicated to our community by donating to the following
organizations: SMART, this
program gets to the heart of the matter simply by reading to children.
The Bus Project... driving votes.. leaders and change, Kenton/Interstate
Little League, ThirdRailz Rep, Caring Community of North Portland, Holy
Redeemer Catholic School, COPS, Astor Elementary, Chief Joseph Elementary-Night
of Magic, North Portland Parent Neighborhood Network, Arbor Lodge Neighborhood
Association, Overlook neighborhood association, Special Olympics, Lee
Owen Stone Preschool and The Emerson School.
Privacy:
Art & Sole is committed to protecting your privacy. The information
you share helps us provide the best products and service possible. When
you become an Art & Sole customer, we require specific information
to fill your order. Some of this information includes name, billing
and shipping addresses, phone number, credit card information, and e-mail
address. We handle this information in a secure, confidential manner.
This privacy policy may be modified. Future modifications to this policy
will be posted on our web site.
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Art that is currently hanging
in and around the shop:
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