The Gloo Factory Art Auction held Sunday April 25th at Raices Taller Gallery 218 E. 6th Street (1/2 block east of 6th St. & 6th Ave.) was a wonderful success.

We want to thank all those who came out, and all the artists and volunteers, for your purchases, and contributions of artwork and time!

The event raised $5000 towards our goal, and was only possible because of your commitment to a free press, social justice and progressive causes.

Check out most of the submissions here!

Thank you!

Regards,
The Gloo Factory

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The Gloo Factory is an independent media center located in the warehouse arts district in Tucson, Arizona. The Gloo Factory is home to a number of projects, including Feral Press and Peace Supplies, and offers services and education in printing and the graphic arts. Our clients are primarily from Tucson’s progressive community. They include labor, environmental, and human rights groups, and progressive political groups and candidates.

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AmeriCorps member Luz Torres, along with her daughter, Jerhaldy and husband, Jose, assisted with the production of buttons to help out The Gloo Factory in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, on January 18. The Gloo Factory was one of nine different organizations chosen to receive volunteers for MLK Day as part of “MLK through Art & Accessibility,” a string of day-long service projects created by AmeriCorps Leaders Sara Scott and Ryn Shane-Armstrong to give back to artists and community organizations in Tucson.

In addition to help with production, storage cleaning and organizing, The Gloo Factory also benefited from having volunteer, Daina Dajevskis, who completed data entry tasks to keep the volunteer database up to date and organized. Thirty-four other volunteers were spread out around the city painting, cleaning and organizing storage units and offices, all in the spirit of MLK.

The other eight organizations that received volunteers for “MLK through Art & Accessibility” were: Arts for All, Inc., Arc of Tucson, Bicas, Direct Center for Independence, Inc., Handi Dogs, Raices Taller 222 Gallery, The Drawing Studio and United Cerebral Palsy of Southern Arizona (UCPSA). Brooklyn Pizza contributed by donating seven pizzas for lunch for volunteers.

Save The Gloo Factory! from Daniela Ontiveros on Vimeo.

The Gloo Factory (named for the “gloo” that keeps community together) began almost twenty years ago with the acquisition of two offset printing presses, and has evolved into a significant community resource. It now offers offset printing, screen printing, graphic arts services, and technical assistance and education. (more…)

Our Gloo Factory benefit at the Hut was a huge success! Supporters came out in droves. It was great to see many new faces finding out what we are all about and getting a taste of some stickers and schwag we passionately produce everyday. It was also wonderful to see our loyal patrons, work traders, contributing artists and friends.
Nearly $1600 was raised, through donations and sales of our awesome benefit t-shirt and cool merchandise.
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For more than a decade, Dwight and The Gloo Factory have been involved in the community, working with a plethora of causes, events or groups. As we talk about saving The Gloo Factory, people often share a story about working together on an action or event. From our Facebook Cause page: (more…)

Next week will be my 21st anniversary of arriving in Tucson. As a young traveler, I was blown away by the Sonoran Desert landscape and my first days in Tucson were like being in a completely new world. The cultures, climate, critters and community were immediately special to me, and still are today. My own assimiliation here hasn’t diminished my passion, and though this week my jobs involve seemingly mundane tasks (printing shirts, making buttons etc.) I am thrilled to be a part of the causes this work will benefit, and want to mention a couple. (more…)

The Gloo Factory
c/o Peace Supplies
P.O. Box 1212
Tucson, AZ 85702-1212

520-740-0810

(Please make checks out to Peace Supplies / Gloo Factory.)