2018 – First People Pots

2018-14 Four panel unfired pot

This jar is a teaching mural of Hopi pottery making. I asked Rachael Sahmie to make an unfired pot for […]

This collection is particularly focused on Nampeyo and her descendants, thus the Nampeyo aesthetic is well represented. Jar 2018-12 is an […]

This is a well-formed vase with unusually thick walls and is thus unexpectedly heavy for its size. It seems to […]

Nathan Begaye was a brilliant, iconoclastic potter and this pot is representative of his best work. Thirty years after I […]

The depth (front to back) varies from 2.875″ at base to 1.875′ at the necklace to 1.5625′ at the chin and […]

The painting on the exterior of jars is more constrained by the shape of the vessel than the painting on […]

This minature seedpot has fairly thick walls and thus substantial weight for its size. A slight blushing on one section […]

I have seen thick, low-relief carved Navajo clay tiles, but never a Navajo tile like 2018-05 that is 1)this thin […]

The front-to-back width is 0.25″ narrower than the side-to-side width. Bowl 2018-04 is unique in several ways: 1) this is […]

This is a visually simple and elegant “pot,” and thus is typical of much of Randall’s work. Substantially heavy for […]