2024 Loom Market Art & Jewelry Auction closes

The 2024 Loom Market Art & Jewelry Auction closes this Thursday, March 28, 7pm MST. Don’t be outbid onhandmade Mata Ortiz pottery, African American Southern-style hats, Indigenous jewelry, and more.

If you’re in Tucson, you are invited to join the Southwest Folklife Alliance and Board President Lynn Hourani for the in-person:

Loom Market Auction Finale
Thursday, March 28, 5-7pm at
Bar Crisol (196 W. Simpson St., Tucson)

All auction items are donated by Loom Market Artists as a way of generating money for the Loom Market Artist Investment Fund. Everything raised at the auction 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. The 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 Porfirio “Pilo” Mora creates traditional pottery originating from Mata Ortiz, a small village in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Mora recounts that by some exploring around Mata Ortiz, there was an art form that left potters an inheritance, and that was the vestige of ceramic activity. Mata Ortiz pottery is inspired by ancient Paquimé culture, which shares many similarities with southwestern Pueblo cultures. Get your bid in!And if you’re in Tucson, meet some of the artists, bid, win and collect your items this Thursday!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).Center photo: Pilo Mora painting a pot by Denise Uyehara.

Bottom photo: Art auction items. Photos by Steven Meckler. 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.