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American ( Santa Clara Pueblo) Known for. Ceramics. Linda Sisneros and Merton Sisneros are Native American potters from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, United States. Both Linda and Merton, a married couple, have a long heritage of pottery in their families. Together they carry on these family traditions, and include on their pottery a triangle ...
Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945. Collection deYoung Museum. Black-on-black ware is a 20th and 21st-century pottery tradition developed by Puebloan Native American ceramic artists in Northern New Mexico. Traditional reduction-fired blackware has been made for centuries by Pueblo artists and other ...
"Knife-wing" or eagle feather designs are common on Santa Clara pottery [16] [17] [18] There are a number of well-known ceramic artists from Santa Clara. Four approaches are used in the decoration of the majority of Santa Clara Pueblo ceramics: painted designs, impressed patterns, incised designs, and resist-firing with incised or sgraffito ...
Jody Folwell. Jody Folwell-Turipa (born 1942, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico) is a Puebloan potter and artist. One of nine children in the Naranjo family of Santa Clara potters and other artists, Folwell is one of the best-known avant-garde Pueblo potters. Lee Cohen, the late owner of Gallery 10 in Santa Fe and Scottsdale, referred to Folwell ...
English: Tewa artist, Sara Fina Gutierrez Tafoya, native name "Autumn Leaf" pit-firing blackware pottery at Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha'po Owingeh), Northern New Mexico around 1900. Collection of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.
Angela Baca. Angela Tafoya Baca (1927 – 2014) was a Native American artist who was known for her redware and blackware pottery, especially melon bowls and bowls featuring a bear paw design. [1] She had one of the longest careers of the potters in Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico. [2] She was a member of the Tewa and a resident of Santa Clara ...
Traditional pueblo pottery is handmade from locally dug clay that is cleaned by hand of foreign matter. The clay is then worked using coiling techniques to form it into vessels that are primarily used for utilitarian purposes such as pots, storage containers for food and water, bowls and platters.
Aug. 18—The title of Jennifer Tafoya's pot, Caught by Surprise, was fitting Friday when it won her the Best of Show award at the 101st Santa Fe Indian Market. The award left Tafoya, a potter ...