Podcasts about pueblo pottery

[REBROADCAST FROM Oct 9, 2023] A new exhibition features more than one hundred historical, modern, and contemporary clay works. It's titled, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, and it's the first community-curated Native American exhibition in the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), the associate curator of Native American Art at The Met, and visual artist Michael Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh-Hopi) joins us to talk about the show on display through June 4, 2024.

A new exhibition features more than one hundred historical, modern, and contemporary clay works. It's titled, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, and it's the first community-curated Native American exhibition in the history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), the associate curator of Native American Art at The Met, and visual artist Michael Namingha (Ohkay Owingeh-Hopi) joins us to talk about the show on display through June 4.

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For the first time in a century, Native people have a voice in how a massive collection of pottery is treated. That voice is represented in the new exhibition, “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. The exhibition gets perspectives from Native artists, storytellers, political leaders, and others on a representative sample from the collection. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce hears from organizers and guest curators of the exhibition as they express their personal and cultural connections to the pieces with Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), curator of ethnology at the Museum of American Indian Arts; contemporary and traditional potter Josephine "Josie" Kie (Laguna Pueblo); Tara Gatewood (Isleta Pueblo), director with the International Women's Media Foundation, curator with the Grounded in Clay project, and longtime host and producer of Native America Calling; and Elysia Poon, Indian Arts Research Center Director at the School for Advanced Research.

For the first time in a century, Native people have a voice in how a massive collection of pottery is treated. That voice is represented in the new exhibition, “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. The exhibition gets perspectives from Native artists, storytellers, political leaders, and others on a representative sample from the collection. Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce hears from organizers and guest curators of the exhibition as they express their personal and cultural connections to the pieces with Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), curator of ethnology at the Museum of American Indian Arts; contemporary and traditional potter Josephine "Josie" Kie (Laguna Pueblo); Tara Gatewood (Isleta Pueblo), director with the International Women's Media Foundation, curator with the Grounded in Clay project, and longtime host and producer of Native America Calling; and Elysia Poon, Indian Arts Research Center Director at the School for Advanced Research.

I had Steve Elmore on the podcast today and I've known Steve since about 1995. He's an interesting guy with a unique story. You see, Steve grew up about 100 miles away from where I did in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He had an intimate relationship with Carlsbad Caverns, which, if you haven't ever been to, is this immense natural wonder of the world. It's not unusual that he ends up specializing in Pueblo pottery years later (you know, clay, earth, all that good stuff)Steve's journey from teacher, to photographer, to art dealer is this classic circuitous route that so many in our profession have done. I think it comes down to the love of the many types of people in the art industry and most importantly the art itself. Most people think that we just want to buy and sell things to make as much money as possible. In reality, myself and the people that I associate with and consider to be colleagues would argue it's a lot deeper than that.I think this is very evident with Steve and his appreciation for the art he displays in his gallery, namely the Pueblo pottery of Old Lady Nampeyo of Hano (of which he's a specialist/expert). So a unique and interesting, fun podcast rife with wonderful information on the Pueblo pottery market and one of the greatest potters to ever live.I must admit the audio and video were a little problematic with this podcast, but that's the way it goes when you rely on technology as heavily as we do these days. Sometimes it doesn't want to work with us and today was one of those times.

I had a really interesting podcast with Lyn Fox today, who owns Lyn A. Fox Fine Pottery in Santa Fe. I've known Lynne for probably since the day he started dealing in Pueblo pottery (his specialty) over 20 years ago.Lyn is a very kind human being who's really considerate in what he does as a dealer and how he looks about buying and selling art. I think there's a lot of commonalities in the way that we both do business and, quite frankly, how we see the world.Throughout this episode, I found some things out that I didn't know anything about when it came to his earlier life and what formed the businessman/art expert he is today.  I think the early interactions that we have with our parents and with world events can mold the way we see ourselves and how we grow.It was really interesting to pull at all these different threads and I think people will enjoy this podcast as much as I did. To me, it was just like having an interesting chat over a cup of coffee with an old friend and that's the best kind of podcast conversation in my opinion.

Three years and  150+ podcasts later I figured it was time for a small break. Until new episodes return this Fall, I'll be posting compilations of some of my favorite Art Dealer Diaries moments.Part six features (in order) Western landscape painter Jill Carver, gallery owner and former president of ATADA John Molloy, celebrated Arizona artist Ed Mell, master Santa Clara potter Susan Folwell, legendary silversmith Frank Patania Jr., and publisher, painter, and podcast host Eric Rhoads.

Noted Navajo sculptor and ceramic artist Christine McHorse died earlier this week. She was born in 1948 in Morenci, Arizona and started working full-time in the arts after attending the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe in the 1960’s. At the school she met her husband Joel and learned to make ceramics in the Pueblo style from his family. After more than two decades selling at the Santa Fe Indian Market, she transitioned into a style of sculptural vessels that drew national and international acclaim. In our interview we talk about shifting her work into the fine art world and developing her forms in micaceous clay and bronze. This interview was originally recorded in 2016.

Kathleen Wall is a vibrant individual and well known Jemez potter who creates her figurine pots at Jemez New Mexico. She does wonderful figurines and masks, some of them being very large pieces. Kathleen explains her journey as a potter and how she got to where she is today and what it took to get there. It's a long hard road to be a potter especially when you're trying to do things that are unique and less traditional pueblo pottery, but Kathleen has triumphed. In fact, Kathleen was recently awarded the Living Treasure Award for New Mexico at MIAC (The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture) and was supposed to have a one-person show for this great honor. Unfortunately, it opened in April of 2020. Clearly, with all that's been going on with COVID-19, the show has been put off through 2021. Pandemic aside, Kathleen has mastered her art and I think anyone that enjoys raw passion and creativity will love Kathleen Wall.

I had the pleasure of interviewing the contemporary artist Marla Allison today on Art Dealer Diaries. Marla is full of energy, creativity, smart, and was a very interesting guest. We discuss growing up in New Mexico at the historic Laguna Pueblo, and what it's like being Laguna, Hopi, Jemez, and Anglo, and what those cultural elements provide to your art and perspective. Laguna is a small community and she goes from a small pueblo community to being IAIA trained and a School for Advanced Research fellow in Santa Fe, to accepting fellowships in Bahrain, and Bristol, UK, and participating in exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates and residencies in Saudi Arabia. Marla Allison has been a lot of different places and imbues this life experience into her art, with her heritage and sensibilities of historic pueblo pottery designs with a contemporary style. I enjoyed this podcast a great deal and for fans of contemporary art and historic pottery, I can assure you that you will too.

I had Dr. Michael F. Brown on the podcast today and he's president of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. I've been a long time supporter of this museum and institution and I highly encourage people to go to their website which is sarweb.org. The school supports native causes and various research projects in the region. It started as an archeology museum in 1922 and it's an amazing place with a huge array of pottery and artifacts, as well as some of the finest contemporary native art. Michael is a fascinating person that has done much in his life. From working in Peru to doing an interview with a gun pointed at him, he definitely has a story that needs to be told. The granulation of this story really adds to his passion and why he wanted to be in charge of this museum and what the museum is doing today. I had originally planned on traveling to Santa Fe this week to interview Michael and several other esteemed Native American artists and historians, even going so far as to set-up a temporary studio in the School for Advanced Research. These plans were put to a screeching halt by the mandatory 14-day quarantine on all inbound travelers installed by the governor of New Mexico. Ultimately, we decided to maintain our interview schedule and do them remotely, socially distancing at an effective 500+ miles. For the next few weeks, the podcast will be focusing on SAR and some of the Native American artisans involved in this wonderful organization. With all of that in mind, please enjoy this socially distant edition of the Art Dealer Diaries featuring Dr. Michael Brown president of SAR.

This episode was taped In early March right before Heard Museum Native American show and sale when Peter Miller came to Tucson to visit and before Covid19 had closed down the country. Peter is a collector who I've had the pleasure of selling to and during these brief visits we've always had wonderful conversations not only surrounding the art he collects, but also his world as an entrepreneur working at MIT. He was educated at MIT and was involved in several different software companies that he helped found and run. We went through the process of what it is to be in the business world as an executive and as a mentor, going over how those of skills correlate with any business, whether its a gallery, or an artist, or a large software company with over 1100 employees. Of course, we talked about collecting and his interest in art and how this developed which is a passion he and his wife share together. Peter is a remarkable person who was kind enough to share the backstory of his life from being a successful business person to his joy of collecting art. He's also a fan of the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series and after this podcast was kind of enough to proofread of my next book "The Candy Man" another skill set he possesses.

Native arts expert and gallery owner Al Anthony takes an hour out of his busy schedule to chat with his old friend Dr. Mark Sublette in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We get an inside look into Al’s days as a nuclear engineer for the USAF and how being stationed in New Mexico led him to Wright’s Trading Post in Albuquerque where he bought his first Maria Martinez bowl on layaway for two hundred dollars. Al recounts weekend trips to the New Mexico Pueblos and encounters with the most famous potters of our time, eventually developing his collection into the longstanding Adobe Gallery on Canyon Road. Along with dealing and collecting Native American art, Al has published many books and even republished historic catalogs such as the JB Moore Crystal Trading Post catalog. All of this and more on this episode of The Art Dealer Diaries.

Appraiser and author Scott Hale sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to discuss his background in education and cinema, becoming a curator of private art collections, and finally the growing interest in authentic Native American items among millennials. Scott explains how his Grandfather ran a Native American art store at Hoover Dam in the 1930's and 40's. His mother Cindy Hale also appraiser helped him carry the family torch and love for Indian arts. From analyzing Native Americans in cinema to Pueblo pottery in the city of Santa Fe. A wonderful interview to understand the current state of appraisal in Native American Art.

Dallas based trader Michael McKissick sits down with host Mark Sublette during the Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This episode of the Art Dealer Diaries covers a nearly 60 year long native art dealing career that begins with a pair of moccasins bought at a rodeo in the 1960's and continues to this day. Formerly a cryogenic systems designer, McKissick established a collection of Native American art that became his initial inventory after opening Waterbird Traders in the 1980's. Michael goes on to discuss the journey that the love of Native American art has taken him on and what's in store for the future of the industry.

The Pueblo of Acoma is about 60 miles west of Albuquerque and is one of the oldest communities in the United States. With the goal of highlighting the community and the unique tradition of Pueblo pottery, the University of New Mexico teamed up with creative company Ideum to achieve the objective via new and emerging projection mapping technology. In partnership with Clarence Cruz, who is an instructor at the University of New Mexico, and Acoma artist Michelle Lowden, the Pueblo Pottery project was born, and there is now a dedicated space at the school for larger-than-life pottery with projected Pueblo designs. On this episode of Digital Signage Stories, Ideum’s Founder and Creative Director Jim Spadaccini joins us to share how this unique history was brought to life with modern technologies. For more case study information about this project, which won a Gold APEX Award at DSE 2019, click here.   

Native American Art dealer Charles King shares his life story of growing up in a pottery dealer's household and his love for Pueblo pottery. Including discussions about Tony Da, Maria Martinez pottery, and Richard Spivey Maria Martinez biographer.

New Mexican Bob Gallegos shares his 40 plus years buying and selling in the antique Antique Native American business. From first buying reproduction arrowheads to building a million dollar collection, how Bob Gallegos turned his passion into a lucrative business and became a leader in the field. The 1972-1974 Native American Art Craze and how he started collecting antique Native American jewelry and worked with C. G. Wallace. Bob collection of 33 Cochiti large opera singer figurines and how he build the market and got Virgil Ortiz interested in the antique form and turned it into his own style. What's happening in todays Antique Native American Art Market and with the repatriation of sacred objects.

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have a discussion with Christine McHorse. Over her nearly fifty-year career she has transitioned from making traditional Pueblo pottery to a body of complex sculptural vessels that are technical and aesthetic frontrunners. Made from local micaceous clay, her vessels have a midnight black appearance resulting from a post-firing reduction process. In the interview we talk about her introduction to traditional Pueblo clay methods by her mother-in-law, her time selling at the Santa Fe Native American market, and her transition into the fine art world. The success and critical acclaim of her recent traveling exhibition DARK LIGHT: The Micaceous Ceramics of Christine Nofchissey McHorse demonstrates the importance of her role in the field of ceramics. She is currently having her first solo gallery exhibition at Peters Projects, Santa Fe. For more information visit www.petersprojects.com.