TMA’s 33rd Annual Holiday Artisans Market + Street Festival
November 1, 2018
The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block (TMA) 33rd Annual Holiday Artisans Market offers an expanded venue, more artisan booths, more hours, enhancing the annual market into an exciting street festival. New to this year’s market and street festival, TMA is partnering with longtime supporter and next-door neighbor La Cocina, to offer more opportunities for visitors and feature a large line-up of live entertainment on three stages throughout the market and street festival.
TMA’s 33rd Annual Holiday Artisans Market + Street Festival 140 N. Main Ave. in historic El Presidio Neighborhood in downtown Tucson
Nov. 16 – 18, 2018 Friday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
5 – 7 p.m., Kickoff Celebration featuring Amor Deluxe Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Free and open to the public
This year’s event features a Kickoff Celebration and Concert on the Corbett Stage from 5 – 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 16. The event is free and open to the public, offering late shopping hours, food and beverage for purchase, and a free music concert. The concert headliner is Amor Deluxe, featuring Gabriel Naim Amor on guitar, Thøger Lund on bass, a string section with Ben Nisbet and Samantha Bounkeua, Ben Degain on vibraphone, and Calexico’s John Convertino on drums.
This year marks the 33rd Annual Holiday Artisans Market and Street Festival, an annual fundraiser for Tucson’s oldest visual arts institution and a launch into the holiday season in downtown Tucson. Organized by TMA’s Museum Store, the event features almost 150 unique and local artisans with crafts, original artwork, pottery, glass, jewelry, textiles, fine art, and gift items. The event will feature almost 15 concerts on three stages: Corbett Stage, Mooney Stage, and La Cocina Stage, throughout the weekend.
In addition to the market and street festival, admission to TMA’s galleries is free for the duration of the market and street festival from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Neoglyphix, an indigenous art collective from will activate the corner of Meyer Avenue and Telles Street. On Saturday and Sunday TMALearn, the museum’s education department, will offer a family activity area in the Casa Cordova courtyard, where families can participate in free holiday inspired art-making projects including buttons, holiday cards, and ornaments.
Artisan Market + Street Festival Vendor List
Aall Forms of Life
AAMA Metal Arts
AC Design Etc
Adam Homan Metal Sculpture
Alan Potter Ceramics
Alchemy Textile Studio
Ancestral Herbals
Ann Marie Hoff
Annotated Audrey
Art Escapes
Ava’s Abstracts
Barb Beavers Pottery
Barbara & Danielle Mulleneaux
Beednicks Design
Black Stallion Jewelry
Bountiful Beauty
Brenda Peo Art
Candy’s Dandy Designs
Canoa Naturals
Carlin Crafts
Carol Wilkins Designs
Casa Kira
Casa Tranquila Designs
Catalina O. Rankin
Cat in the Moon Designs
Catrina Briscoe Fine Art
CEH Creations
Cereza Oilcloth Studio
Charles Thomas Fine Art
Cheryl Kabala Studio
ChristelsArt
Christina Holland Designs
Chrysalis Handmade Glass Beads
Copper Hummingbird
CynthiAn Designs
Desert Sky Gourds
Design by Gjovaag
Design Collaborations
Designs by Cindi
Don Swanson Designs
El Fuego Pottery
Elizabeth Dunlop Studios
Elizabeth Groth
Empty the Bucket
Equestrian Treasures
Eva Seid Design
FIRED Kiln Creations by Jami
Forever Rock Candles
Four Winds
From the Ground Up Art
Fuschia Designs
Gavin Troy
Gayla’s Santa Fe Designs
Gerardo Campos
Geri Bringman & Robin Chlad
Get Hammered Metalsmith
Glass by Grace/Vikki Carpenter
Glass Fire Designs
glassdesign
Got All Your Marbles?
Gourd and Pine Needle Art
Gourd Vessels
HELIOTROPE
Holladay Design Jewelry
Hugo Wessels Photography
In Love With Pearls
Jabot by Lana
Jewelry by Jann
Jonathan Marquis
Jorge Vergeli
Julie Rose Original
Julie Szerina Stein
Karen Samson Designs
Karey Wilson Hud
Kathy Loftus Jewelry Design
Kathy Zimmerman Photography
Kettlelicious
Kitty’s Custom Design
Koopman Textile Design
Lady Houdini Shawls
Laughing Witch Pottery
Laura Tanzer
Lensink Creations
Lila Clare Jewelry
Liz Weibler Art
Loma Prieta Pottery
Louis Cantillo
Lucine Dirtadian ~ Ursula Rodgers Jewelry
Lulu’s Sorbetto
LVcreativethreads
Lynne Yamaguchi
Magic Wood Art
Maya Art Studio
Melbeck Studio
Mesquite Gourds
Metallic Reef
Michael Nowack Art Pottery
Mirage & Bird Botanicals
Newman’s Design Mine
Out of Glass
Pat Reddemann
Patricia Healey
Patty Lakinsmith Glass
Peggy Rubin Art
Pereza Pottery
Phil Smith – Photoarts
Primitiva
Quarry Hill
Quiet Bear Art
R&B Photoworks
RanchDreams
RBT Designs
Richard Meyer
Roadside Distractions
Romero House Potters
Rubymoon Studio
Sabina Solot
Saint Dame
Santa Fe Designs
Sarah Elliot Jewelry
Sassafras Sky
Sean Hill
Second Chance Design
Solaz Designs
Some Distant World
Southern Arizona Alchemists
Studio13-Daniel Ramirez
Susan Allen Jewelry
Susie Larsson Design
Terry L Slonaker
The Designing Lady
The Hippie Spot Recyclery
The Lost Highway Sign Company
The Metal Gardener
The Vintage Jewel
Tucson Clay Co-op
Tucson Handweavers and Spinners Guild
Tucson Women’s Refugee Sewing Program
Turned In Tucson
Un Chiffon fon fon
Vikki Carpenter
Vynilla Totes & Bags
VYOD
Zinnia Sky Studio
Old Town Artisan Vendors:
Old Paint Records and Books
Shelago’s Artwerks USA
Barrio Bella
La Zia
Art House Centro
The Gypsy’s Emporium
Live Performance and Concert Schedule (as of 11/1/2018)
Corbett Stage
Friday 5:30 p.m. – Amor Deluxe Saturday 10:30 a.m. – Gertie and the TO Boyz 2:00 p.m. – Juju Fontaine Sunday 10:30 a.m. – Shrimp Chaperone 2:00 p.m. – Lisa O’Neill and the Open Ocean
Mooney Stage
Friday 11:30 a.m. – Laura Jean Saturday 11:00 a.m. – Jillian Bessett Sunday 11:00 a.m. – Andy Hersey
La Cocina Stage
Friday 12:30 p.m. – Koda Krause 6:00 p.m. – The Greg Morton Band
Saturday 12:00 p.m. – Clay Koweek 2:30 p.m. – Koda Krause 6:30 p.m. – Natalie Pohanic Sunday 12:00 p.m. – Mik and the Funky Brunch
Family Friendly Activities (as of 11/1/2018)
- • Friday/Saturday/Sunday – Free Admission to TMA Galleries
- • Friday/Saturday/Sunday – Neoglyphix, an indigenous art collective on the corner of Meyer Avenue and Telles Street
- • Saturday/Sunday – TMALearn family activity area in the Casa Cordova courtyard where families can participate in free holiday inspired art-making projects. Projects will include mini buttons, holiday cards, and ornaments.
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