The Native artists of the Southwest are known especially for their exquisite ceramics.
1600 C.E.–present
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Mission Church, San Esteban del Rey, Acoma Pueblo
This mesa in New Mexico is believed to hold one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the US.
Introduction to Mogollon
The Mogollon tradition of the Greater Southwest was diverse, expansive, and vibrant.
Awa Tsireh, Pottery Makers
Pottery Makers is one of many that the artist Awa Tsireh (Cattail Bird, Spanish name Alfonso Roybal) created about Pueblo cultures
Paquimé (Casas Grandes), Mogollon culture
Paquimé played a key role in trade and cultural contacts between the Pueblo culture of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica.
Socorro black-on-white storage jar
This Ancestral Puebloan jar was made to store good during a time of drought.
White Ogre Tihu (Katsina Figure)
A Hopi blessing for a child's growth and prosperity, with a reminder to respect elders
Pueblo architecture and its relationship to place
Pueblo architecture reveals a close connection to the surrounding landscape and to Pueblo culture.
The pueblo modernism of Ma Pe Wi
A modernism emerges from tourism, boarding schools & indigenous traditions
Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa), polychrome jar
Nampeyo found inspiration from the old to create a pottery style that was entirely new and highly sought after.
Julian Martinez, Buffalo Dancers
Martinez’s distinctive style developed from studying Southwestern pottery and Modernist abstraction.
