July 13 (UPI) --The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will open an exhibit Friday of Pueblo Indian pottery in what the institution described as its first community-curated exhibit of Native ...
The 19 Indian pueblos of New Mexico, along with several in Arizona, are celebrated internationally for their distinctive, impeccably handcrafted pottery. With a storied history reaching back 2,000 ...
QUESTION: I bought these in 1945 when I got out of the Air Corps in Albuquerque, N.M., at an Indian store on Central Avenue called “Mazel’s” I think. The black one is 12 ½” wide and the red ones are 7 ...
It all starts with the earth, or earthen clay, the tangible substance of Pueblo pottery. But that clay needs water in order to mix, and then fire to harden the pottery. Then the breath of the wind ...
SANTA FE, N.M. — The words astonished me when I read them: “Pueblo people believe clay has life. Potters speak to it, pray to it, revere it.” My wife, Sandy, and I have been modest collectors of ...
Pottery is both personal and communal, utilitarian and ceremonial, at the heart of civilization and family life. We need pots to carry water, prepare food and store perishables. But pots are as ...
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),.) Catalog of an exhibition curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective and ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Pottery, photography, and paintings from Taos Pueblo artists are being featured in an upcoming showcase in Albuquerque. The event was originally planned for March but has ...
There are many names for the people who were here before the rest of us -- Indigenous People, Native Americans and American Indians among them. And under that big umbrella are many individual cultures ...
ACOMA, N.M. — At first it seems deserted, this peaceful city of sun-dried mud buildings atop a 70-acre rock, which rises nearly 370 feet above the surrounding desert. The only sounds are those of ...