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The 22 foot high mosaic sculpture, Tree of Life, created in 1999 and located at Fourth Street and Montano Rd. in North Valley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an artwork referencing the early peoples of Mexico and New Mexico, with black and white animal images referencing Native American Mimbres pottery, as well as color figures from the Maya culture.
pot by Rick Dillingham inspired by pottery of the Ancestral Puebloan people, collection Albuquerque Museum Ancestral Puebloan Socorro Black on White ware jar c. 1050–1300 Rick Dillingham (1952–1994) [ 1 ] was an American ceramic artist, scholar, collector and museum professional best known for his broken pot technique and scholarly ...
Marie Zieu Chino (1907–1982) was a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico.Marie and her friends Lucy M. Lewis and Jessie Garcia are recognized as the three most important Acoma potters during the 1950s.
Porter Lara moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico as a young child in 1980, and later attended the University of New Mexico, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2013. [1] [2] [3] Porter Lara also learned pottery techniques from Graciela and Hector Gallegos in the village of Mata Ortiz in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. [4]
Lewis' daughter, Dolores Lewis Garcia, once noted: "My mother, Lucy M. Lewis, began making pottery at about age seven and attracted public attention for her work in the 1950s...Our family would buy books to look up the old pottery designs and Dr. Kenneth M. Chapman from the Museum of New Mexico suggested to us to use the Mimbres designs and they have become very popular for us today.
Artists from Santo Domingo Pueblo (between Albuquerque to the south and Santa Fe to the north) also use floral and bird motifs along with geometric lines and patterns, usually in red. Zuni artists in the far west-central New Mexico began ornamenting their pottery in the 20th century with dragonflies, deer, owls and frogs, and floral patterns ...
Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.
Ceramics have been created in the Americas for the last 8000 years, as evidenced by pottery found in Caverna da Pedra Pintada in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. [78] The Island of Marajó in Brazil remains a major center of ceramic art today. [79] In Mexico, Mata Ortiz pottery continues the ancient Casas Grandes tradition of polychrome pottery.