"For the past two millennia the American Southwest has been home to one of the most vibrant and compelling peoples ever to have graced the earth. The vitality, distinctiveness, and resilience of Pueblo culture is apparent in its traditional pottery, a famous aspect of which is intricate painted designs. These designs, based on simple geometric forms, make Ancestral Pueblo pottery distinctive and easy to recognize. In this book, Scott G. Ortman and...

No art form is more associated with the Native Americans of the Southwest than pottery. For centuries, Pueblo people have made beautiful pottery, often painted with intricate designs, for everyday activities such as cooking, food storage and gathering water, and for ceremonial use. Vessels of these types have been found at ancient sites including Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. The tradition of pottery-making continues to thrive among Pueblo communities...

"Voices in Clay: Pueblo Pottery from the Edna M. Kelly Collection is a dialogue between working Pueblo potters and the pottery made by their ancestors between 1880 and 1940. A major exhibition of more than a hundred pots from the Edna M. Kelly Collection of Native American Art were selected for exhibition by three award-winding potters: Steve Lucas, First Mesa Hopi-Tewa, Robert Tenorio from Santo Domingo, and Elvis Torrez from San Ildefonso."--BOOK...