Pottery
The School has one of the most definitive
collections of Southwestern Indian pottery representing more than twenty Pueblo
communities and numerous other southwestern tribes (including Navajo, Apache, and Mojave),
and represents all stylistic and technical traditions spanning more than four centuries of
artistic production.
The collection of Rio Grande Pueblo pottery numbers almost four thousand pieces and is
thought by some scholars as one of the most extensive collections available for study.
New Publication
The IARC is pleased to announce the publication of All That Glitters:
The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico
(edited by Duane Anderson with a forward by Lonnie Vigil).
Luminous golden and sparkling black pottery fashioned from mica-rich clays has been
made by Pueblo and Jicarilla Apache Indians of the northern Rio Grande region for at least
five hundred years. In this generously illustrated volume, Duane Anderson presents the
first comprehensive study of micaceous pottery in New Mexico and explores its current
transition from a traditional culinary ware to an exciting contemporary art form.
Anderson traces the history and prehistory of micaceous pottery making
in the Southwest, describes pottery-making techniques, and explores the development of
micaceous ware as a fine art. The volume includes a complete, illustrated catalog of the
micaceous pottery collections of SAR's Indian Arts Research
Center, a comprehensive survey of Southwestern micaceous ceramics in museums
worldwide, and a roster of micaceous potters practicing in northern New Mexico today.
Read more about All That Glitters:
The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico.
Research
on the collection has resulted in the publication of numerous articles
and books, including the definitive Acoma
& Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham (SAR Press 1992).
Read more about Acoma
& Laguna Pottery.
