8th Annual Anansi Auction
Saturday, June 2 at 5:30 p.m.
Farestart Restaurant
700 Virginia Street
Seattle, WA 98101
Please join us to support Anansi's mission to fund the high school education of students in Ghana, West Africa!
Anansi's Auction includes a silent auction and wine reception, delicious dinner at Farestart, and live auction. Both auctions feature art, textiles, and wares from Ghana and surrounding countries, providing a tangible connection to the communities Anansi serves.
See select items from the 2011 live auction.
About the African Art and Artifacts
Every year, Anansi's founder and director, Kathryn Roe, collects masks, sculpture, and art from Ghana and the surrounding region. A background knowledge of West African art and deep network of relationships in Ghana helps her find older pieces, not produced for the tourist market. Many we may appreciate as 'art' have been created for a practical metaphysical function.
"The objects from Africa that will be presented at the Anansi auction are not tourist decorations. They are real tribal pieces of high museum quality. They are objects that a serious collector of tribal art would want in a private collection. Several of them are old pieces from the early 20th century from the tribes in and around the Ashanti, Yoruba, Senufo, N'gere and Dan tribes and other groups from that area and have the traditional characteristics of the objects used there ritually. Katherine Roe has selected a beautiful set of figures and masks, large and small, for the auction and serious collectors of tribal arts should attend."
Dr. Thomas Schlotterback, PhD University of Iowa, History of Art, Professor Emeritus Western Washington University. 1965 to 1993. Professor, Art History including the History of Tribal Arts, Chair of Art department 1973 to 1983.