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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.
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…)
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
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.
Please be sure to scroll all the way down so you don’t miss any of our awesome up coming workshops. We are currently offering 2 beginning Screen printing workshops and one more advanced workshop.
Event Registration for
Event Registration for Screenprinting 101 April 10th 9am-5pm
| Basics of Do-it-Yourself Screenprinting. Take your artwork from concept to print. In this class you will: Stretch your own silkscreen. Prepare your artwork. Expose and prepare photo silkscreens for printing. Print your image on a t-shirt. In addition, we will discuss screen printing processes, materials and techniques and advise students on how best to set up their own printing systems. |
| Screenprinting 101 April 10th 9am-5pm - Cost $ 120.00 |
Event Registration for Screenprinting 102 April 11th 10am-5pm
| $80 (completion of Screenprinting 101 required) includes materials We will build upon the basics from the first class and include more time for hands on applications. This class will provide information on printing processes beyond textiles, including stickers, posters, and signage. Participants will reproduce their own designs on vinyl stickers. We will also cover: Image manipulation and preparation techniques Making color separations for multiple color prints Printing two color designs Printing vinyl bumper stickers Proper screen exposures and handling More on setting up your own system |
| Screenprinting 102 April 11th 10am-5pm - Cost $ 80.00 |
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…)
We will send you occasional updates about our campaign.
We are asking you to contribute to the Gloo Factory building fund. As a community, we must act together to secure our access to independent media. And keeping The Gloo Factory in operation is a vital part of that. Your donation today to our building fund will help ensure our sustainability into the future.
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. Donations are not tax deductible.)
The Gloo Factory is located in the heart of Tucson’s Historic Warehouse Arts District. Shown here, we are printing banners for the semi-annual open studio tours of the arts district.
Our products go out in the world to make change. The Apaches for Cultural Preservation have for years used the Gloo Factory to make t-shirts for their annual Mount Graham Sacred Run. In this photo, the Apaches complete a 400+ mile relay between the sacred peaks on Mount Graham and the San Francisco mountains outside of Flagstaff, AZ.
We are located in downtown Tucson’s Historic Warehouse Arts District.
Silkscreen color separations set up for the Save the Scenic Santa Ritas t-shirts. SSSR is a grassroots coalition working to stop a giant copper mine outside of Tucson. We print their shirts, stickers, buttons, brochures and more, and wholeheartedly encourage their efforts to protect the ecology of this diverse area.
Jeff is making buttons for No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid coalition addressing border issues. The buttons feature a water jug in the desert and were design here at the Gloo Factory. They tell a story about the dire and deadly situation in the American desert borderlands; they also are promoting awareness of the political trials of No More Deaths volunteer (and Peace Supplies web designer) Walt Staton, who is currently facing jail time stemming from leaving water in the desert as humanitarian aid for Migrants. See more at www.NoMoreDeaths.org
We work with local businesses in many ways. Our colorful custom screenprinted ceiling tiles are part of the exquisite renovation at the Historic Train Depot done by Maynard’s restaurant.
Peace Supplies was founded in response to the growing threat of invasion in Iraq. We printed signs for this protest march, the largest peace march in Tucson history. Seven years late we are still at it. Go to our website for a free “Afghanistan:Obama’s Vietnam?” bumper sticker.
We offer full service printing and binding and do a wide range of custom work for progressive groups.
Stapling programs for and Asylum Project awards dinner. Many of the groups we cater to are volunteer, non-profit, and service traditionally disenfrancised communities.
We are part of a unique community of creative people working for positive change in the world. The large warehouse facility we have rented for the last decade has provided the space to expand our services and ability to support this community.
At the very core of what we do every day is a belief that we can change things for the better. Challenging the lunacy and waste of war is second nature to us; providing an alternative to the corporate media that fans the flames of war and profits from the military industrial complex is what keeps us determined to do our work.
We support the complex and unique relations involved in peaceful change. Southern Arizona has become a militarized zone, where the inhumanity of captialism is brutally clear. We want a world where people and the earth are respected and where jobs with justice are available for all.
We make our facilities available to community groups to print their own merchandise. Gloo Factory offers trainings in various forms of printing and networks with other local independent media projects.
Some of our goods on display at a benefit for the Guatemala Acupuncture Project (GUAMAP). Their annual holiday craft fair raises money to bring acupunture practitioners and trainings to impoverished communities in Guatemala.
Cranking out signs against the anti-migrant Proposition 200, a racist ballot initiative-turned -law that has criminalized people based on their skin color.
One of our most popular bumper stickers, originally produced for the Tucson Community Supported Agriculture Project. Only by controlling our means of production can we guarantee the ability to get our ideas out. In a society dominated by Clear Channel and Fox news, independent media is a necessity for survival.
The Gloo Factory / Peace Supplies routinely participates in political and social events. A few examples are anti-war marches in San Francisco and Washington, DC, the Green Fest in DC and Chicago, Tour de Fat (Fat Tire) in Phoenix and Tucson, and Tucson’s Bike Swap Meet and Peace Fair. Here are a few photos.
Here we are in Washington, DC at an anti-war march in September 2007
Tucson Street Fair, 2006
A link from your web page or blog will help increase traffic and awareness! Please copy and paste this code to your site:
<a href=”http://www.savethegloofactory.org/”>Save The Gloo Factory</a>
Which will show up like this on your site:
or for a graphical link save the image below to where you store images on your site
and then enter this code
<a href=”http://www.savethegloofactory.org/”>< img src=”images/GlooFactoryLogoColor.jpg” width=”200″ /> </a>
where src=”images/GlooFactoryLogoColor.jpg” has the location of the file on your site rather than images/GlooFactoryLogoColor.jpg. And width=”200″ is set to whatever size looks best for you.
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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.)