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In 1991, Redcorn began experimenting and teaching herself how to make pottery using traditional Caddo methods, which involve coiling the clay and incising for decoration. [4] She uses metal or bone tools to incise her pots with ancestral Caddo designs and hand fires them, instead of using a commercial kiln. To add color, she rubs red clay into ...
Glazes are seldom used by indigenous American ceramic artists. Grease can be rubbed onto the pot as well. [2] Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns extensively. Today many Native American ceramic artists use kilns. In pit-firing, the pot is placed in a shallow pit ...
Margaret Gutierrez (born 1936) and Luther Gutierrez (1911–1987) were a brother and sister team of Native American potters from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, United States. They descended from several generations of potters and continue the polychrome style of painting made famous by their parents Lela and Van Gutierrez . [ 1 ]
A Storyteller Doll is a clay figurine made by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. The first contemporary storyteller was made by Helen Cordero of the Cochiti Pueblo in 1964 in honor of her grandfather, Santiago Quintana, who was a tribal storyteller. [1] It looks like a figure of a storyteller, usually a man or a woman and its mouth is always open.
She sifts, soaks, and strains the raw clay in into pottery-grade clay. [1] She uses the coiling and pit firing to make her pots. [1] Images of women, which she calls "pueblo girls," and animals, are a common themes in her artworks. [3] She participates in the Santa Fe Indian Market. [1] She won first prize in pottery at the Market in 2011 and 2022.
Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell- tempering agents in the clay paste. [ 1 ]
Peterson donated her archives and ceramic collection to the Arizona State University Ceramic Research Center. [ 4 ] She was the host of an early educational television series, Wheels, Kilns, and Clay , with 54 episodes that were first broadcast 1964-1965 in Los Angeles by the CBS station KNXT-TV Channel 2. [ 5 ]
Maria Poveka Montoya Martinez (c. 1887 – July 20, 1980) was a Puebloan artist who created internationally known pottery. [1] [2] Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members, including her son Popovi Da, examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people's legacy of fine artwork and crafts.