Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion pliable adobe architecture of Northern

pliable adobe architecture of Northern New Mexico

Makes one 3”-5” pinch pot

the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford

This meerkat is carved from a single piece of Jacaranda wood

eighteenth-century retablos and bultos

Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion pliable adobe architecture of NorthernMartha Arquero was born in 1944 into the Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. She has been making pottery sculptures since the late 1960s, inspired to continue the family tradition of clay sculpting by her Mother, Damacia Cordero. She uses all natural pigments to hand coil her sculptures, gathering the clay from the hills nearby her home. Martha makes a variety of pottery, from traditional storytellers and nativity scenes to playful characters and comic book