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CURRENCY STUDIO

BACK WHEN HE WAS A KID, Michael Haskins’ mother worked at a bank. He would go to work with her, sitting in the break room. One day, he saw a large sum of money handled by one of the bank tellers. “That’s a lot of money,” he said, shocked. “Honey, this isn’t money——this is currency,” she told him. That’s where it all began.

Haskins became enamored with the concept of currency and came to the conclusion that we are all our own most valuable currency. Over the years, he’s expressed this belief through a variety of art forms, including clothing design. Now, Currency Studio is a full-fledged showroom at the edge of Canton.