The Jacobson House Native Art Center is set to host a two-day Holiday Art Market featuring various indigenous artists.
The Holiday Art Market is set to take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Nov. 30, to Dec. 1, at 609 Chautauqua Ave.
The annual art market will feature Native-made jewelry, earrings, postcards, mugs and original paintings and prints brought by vendors.
Brent Greenwood, Oscar Jacobson Foundation Board of Trustees chairperson, said some of the artists are award-winning.
“Whatever you can think of that Native artisans would produce and make, we’re going to have a little sampling of that through our almost 20 vendors that would be on the property those two days,” Greenwood said.
Greenwood said the market would also provide a family-friendly and festive atmosphere.
“We’ll have a food vendor on site too, so you’ll probably catch a whiff of the fry bread or some of the stew that is cooking,” Greenwood said. “I just think with the energy and the kind of the cold winter months starting to kind of usher in a little bit, I just think it provides for that a nice festive feel.”
The art market will hold a chili contest Saturday. Greenwood, who will be one of the judges, said it will be a fun new addition to the market.
“Of course, everyone loves chili, right? and everyone claims to have the best chili. So we’re going to decide that,” Greenwood said. “I love cooking it myself, and feel like I have probably some of the best chili too, but I’ll reserve that for the other participants.”
Named after the late Swedish-born Oscar Brousse Jacobson who built the house in 1917 during his tenure as the first director of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Art, the house was also a gathering place for the Kiowa Six, a group of young Native artists whose art traveled the world, according to center’s website
Hosting the art market at the Jacobson House supports the mission of empowering Native community members to be a part of something greater than the house itself, Greenwood said.
“That’s bringing people together,” Greenwood said. “That’s the base of everything we’re doing with our learning outreach.”
