Andrew Padilla – Laguna Pueblo Indian Potter
Andrew Padilla is the son of noted Laguna potter Gladys Paquin. While Gladys works almost exclusively in older Laguna designs, Andrew’s pottery is most contemperary, yet made by traditional Laguna...
Andrew Padilla is the son of noted Laguna potter Gladys Paquin. While Gladys works almost exclusively in older Laguna designs, Andrew’s pottery is most contemperary, yet made by traditional Laguna...
Emma began potting at he age of 13 which was about 20 years ago. She was taught by her mother Ida Yepa. It is only in the past two years...
Sherry is one of the many potting daughters of well-known potter, Mida Tafoya. Her grandmother was the revered Santa Clara potter Christina Naranjo. Her sisters who pot include Ethel Vigil,...
Judy is the daughter of famed Cochiti storyteller-maker Dorothy Trujillo. For many years Judy made storytellers which were almost identical to her mother’s. With Dorothy’s passing in 2000, it is...
Dorothy is the daughter of deceased Cochiti potter Mary Frances Herrera. Mary Frances started making storytellers in the years after Helen Cordero invented the form at Cochiti in 1964. Dorothy...
Roberta Shendo, and her husband Juan Chavez, make very nice wedding vases using all traditional materials. Juan makes the pots in his own characteristic unusual shapes and Roberta paints and...
Vickie was taught to pot by her grandmother, Flora Naranjo and her mother, Barbara Martinez. In the late 1980s she dated Stella Chavarria’s son and both Stella and Teresita Naranjo...
Geraldine Sandia is a member of a large extended family of Jemez potters. She and her sisters, Carol Loretto, Mary Helen Loretto and Shirley Chinana, work in a highly polished...
Natalie is the daughter of well known Jemez potter Geraldine Sandia. Like her sisters, Debbie Sandia and Rachael Sandia, and her aunts, Carol Loretto, Shirley Chinana and Mary Helen Loretto,...
Carol is one member of a large extended family of Jemez potters. Carol is the sister of other Jemez potters Geraldine Sandia, Mary Helen Loretto and Shirley Chinana. Carol has...
Virginia Lucero makes fine storytellers in the “Classic” Jemez style. She was taught to pot by Marie G. Romero, one of the Jemez potters most responsible for the renaissance of...
Diane Lewis is a member of one of the two non-related Lewis families at Acoma Pueblo. While the Lucy Lewis family is better known, the children of Katherine Lewis (Marilyn...