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Loom Holiday Art Market & Silent Auction
December 1, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm MST
Southwest Folklife Alliance hosts a Loom Holiday Art Market & Silent Auction featuring heritage-based artwork on December 1st.
Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA) presents an open-air winter market featuring artwork byIndigenous, 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.
Loom.Market is an online marketplace where heritage-based artists can sell work, network, and preserve cultural knowledge. Loom also offers professional development for artists, helps artists build community with other artists and supporters, and facilitates peer-to-peer learning workshops.
The event features live music, artist sales throughout the day and a silent auction at dusk. Light refreshments and hot chocolate will also be available. Purchases and proceeds from the auction directly support heritage-based artists in building their businesses, and their access to professional development opportunities.
Loom 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.”
What: Loom Holiday Art Market + Silent Auction
When: Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, 11am – 7pm
Where: Pima County Historic Courthouse, in the Courtyard, 115 N Church Ave., Tucson, AZ
This event is free and open to the public. Metered street parking and paid parking is available.
For more information or to shop online visit Loom.Market, or SouthwestFolklife.org.
Loom.Market is an initiative of the Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), a non-profit organization and affiliate of the University of Arizona. It does not take a commission or charge artists overhead for sales. SFA’s mission is to build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage, and diversity rooted in the Greater Southwest and U.S. Mexico Border Corridor. Nationally, SFA amplifies models and methods of meaningful cultural work that center traditional knowledge, social equity, and collaboration.