December 18, 2024 Designed and maintained by the Southwest Folklife Alliance, Loom.Market is a virtual marketplace where heritage-based artists can sell work, network and preserve cultural knowledge. Artists from all walks of life get together under the umbrella of Loom Market to support each other and to create community. Diseñado y mantenido por la Southwest … Read more
For Immediate Release Contact: Program Manager, Denise UyeharaPhone: 520-621-4046duyehara@arizona.edu December 12, 2024 Southwest Folklife Alliance Awards 10 Master Artists to Share and Transfer Cultural Knowledge Tucson, AZ— Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA) is proud to present its 2024 Master-Apprentice Artist Award to a Hopi basketmaker, a White Mountain Apache basketmaker, a maker of White Mountain Apache traditional … Read more
We’re thrilled to be working with grassroots organizers from Regeneración in building a Center for Cultural Organizing and heritage-based entrepreneurship to serve neighborhoods along the corridor of South 12th Avenue from 44th Street to Drexel Road (colloquially known as “La Doce”) in Tucson. In 2023, we purchased a property, 4009 S. 12th Avenue, to house … Read more
Our exhibit, “Walking Each Other Home: Cultural Practices at End of Life” produced in collaboration with the Arizona State Museum in 2022/2023 is now online. View the exhibit here. This exhibit shares stories and traditions that were documented as part of our End of Life: Continuum project supported by the Arizona End of Life Care … Read more
“I started weaving contemporary baskets partly out of necessity. When I was 18, I didn’t have a car. When I would run out of material, I would look for other things to either weave with or incorporate—other plant material or sometimes metal and stones and bones and hair. All these things would go into my … Read more
We’re continuing to support Arizona-based traditional artists and culture bearers in passing on their artforms though our annual Master Apprentice Artist Award. This year we’ll be making 10 awards—$5,000 for the Master artist and $500 to the emerging artist. Nominations are open now through May 15. Artists are nominated by peers within their community, cultural … Read more
Auction items include artwork by Indigenous, African American, and Mexican American heritage-based artists from Loom.Market, an online marketplace administered by SFA, where heritage-based artists can sell work, network, and preserve cultural knowledge. Find handmade Mata Ortiz pottery, African American Southern-style hats, Indigenous jewelry and more.
We’re so excited to share that The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded funds to our a new ClimateLore initiative, an oral history project to document climate risk, loss, and adaptation in two desert regions of the US-Mexico borderlands. This version of ClimateLore is a partnership between SFA, Tohono O’odham Young Voices Podcast … Read more
We are so excited to finally announce this year’s Master-Apprentice Artist Awardees. This annual award offers direct support to master traditional artists living in Arizona to pass on art, culture, and heritage practices to apprentice learners. The recipients are nominated by community members and selected by a panel of cultural leaders and peers. Congratulations to: … Read more
