Auction
This auction is Anansi's annual fundraising event and the primary opportunity for new sponsors to learn about the Anansi project. Each spring masks, sculptures, jewelry, and the collections of painter Ato Fabil Annan are brought from Ghana by Anansi founder, Kathryn Roe, to be sold in this auction benefiting Anansi. With dinner and music, it is also a lovely opportunity for sponsors to gather and celebrate Anansi.
African Art and Artifacts
Auctions feature the collections of the West African painter, Ato Fabil Annan, as well as museum quality masks and artifacts brought directly from West Africa.
"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.