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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.
Barbara Willis (née Thompson) (June 29, 1917 - September 3, 2011) was an American southern Californian ceramic artist."She was among the first to adapt studio techniques to commercial pottery, using molds to mass produce simple geometric wares that had a hand-made look."
A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. [1] Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture ...
Mary Alice Hadley (October 5, 1911 – December 26, 1965) was an American artist from Terre Haute, Indiana, known for her earthenware pottery pieces with hand-painted images of farm and coastal life, which were sold by Hadley Pottery.
A shelf in the Leach Pottery museum and gallery, St Ives, Cornwall. Leach returned to England in 1920 on the invitation of Frances Horne. Horne was establishing a Guild of Handicrafts within the existing artist colony of St Ives in Cornwall. On the recommendation of a family friend, Edgar Skinner, she contacted Leach to suggest that he become ...
Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945.Collection deYoung Museum María and Julián Martinez pit firing black-on-black ware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Incised black-on-black Awanyu pot by Florence Browning of Santa Clara Pueblo, collection Bandelier National Monument Wedding Vase, c. 1970, Margaret Tafoya of ...
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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.