Pottery Tips From a Professional Potter
For the last 39 years, Zia Pueblo traditional potter Ruby Panana has made stunning bowls and vases by hand. She is a fourth-generation potter, and like her mother, famed potter Seferina Pino Bell…
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Fire Up the Kiln
Taos Ceramics Center offers a variety of eight-week courses that meet weekly. Paseo Pottery, in Santa Fe, holds two different seven-week courses—wheel-throwing and hand-building—that meet once a week…
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Molding Pottery Novices Into Experts
“CERAMICISTS EAT FAILURE FOR BREAKFAST,” says Miranda Howe. The founder of Bone Springs Art Space, an art studio and gallery in Roswell, Howe knows of what she speaks. She teaches the Dirty Dozen…
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Check Out These Books on Native Pottery
POLYCHROME, BLACK-ON-RED, polished blackware, Jeddito yellow ware … the types of Native pottery and their evolutionary arcs provide a rich field of study for art historians, archaeologists, and…
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The Story Behind a Jemez Storyteller
This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…
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A Badger Paw Claws Though Time
This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…
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How the Cochiti Mono Serves As Cultural Critique
This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…
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Ko'o Paa* and the Spirit of the Clay
This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…
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Memories of an Acoma Potter
This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…
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Where to Find Authentic Native Pottery
AT THE Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, permanent and temporary exhibits focus on New Mexico pueblos and their art, history, and culture. The archaeology collection at the Maxwell Museum…
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