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Loom.Market Online Auction
March 14, 2024 - March 28, 2024
2024 Loom Market Art & Jewelry Auction that is open for bidding on March 14. (Bidding closes March 28, 7pm MST). Auction items include artwork by Indigenous, African American, and Mexican American heritage-based artists from Loom.Market. Find handmade Mata Ortiz pottery, African American Southern-style hats, Indigenous jewelry and more.
All auction items are donated by Loom Market Artists as a way of generating money for the Loom Market Artist Investment Fund, a fund that boosts artists with as-needed financial and technological support. Last year the Loom Market Artist Investment Fund provided technology awards to all Loom Market artists.
In 2024 the fund will respond to artists’ needs in support of their businesses (from tax support to materials or supplies, travel, or marketing).
Loom.Market is an online marketplace where heritage-based artists can sell work, network, and preserve cultural knowledge. Loom Market offers professional development for artists, helps build community with other artists and supporters, and facilitates peer-to-peer learning workshops.Loom Market Artist Homer Marks, Jr. creates woodcarvings and Hopi Kachinas, an artform he learned from his Hopi relatives. Homer has been creating artwork for more than 20 years. “I use the inspiration from both my Hopi and Tohono O’odham background,” he says. “My carvings represent the strong ties between both my cultures.”
Support Loom Market artists by participating in the auction. And if, you’re in Tucson, meet some of the artists, bid, win and collect your items at Bar Crisol (196 W. Simpson St.), Thursday, March 28 from 5-7pm. Bid March 14-28, 2024
To learn more about becoming a sponsor or funding partner please contact: Leia Maahs, Executive Director, SFA at leiamaahs@arizona.edu or 520-621-0714 (office) or 520-903-4175 (cell).
Loom Market is a product of the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc., a non-profit 501c3 organization.The Southwest Folklife Alliance builds more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage, and diversity in the Greater Southwest.Southwest Folklife Alliance | 520-621-4046 | swfolklife@gmail.com| southwestfolklife.org