This is a sampling from a larger exhibit currently on display at Old Main on the University of Arizona campus.
Born in Oklahoma, artist Anita Fields creates works of clay and textile that reflect the worldview of her Native Osage culture. Her practice explores the complexities of cultural influences and the intersections of balance and chaos found within our lives. The early Osage notions of duality, such as earth and sky, male and female, are represented in her work. Fields has been featured in American Craft, Ms Magazine, American Style, and First American Art. Her pieces can be found in several collections, such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Art and Design, New York City; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; and the National Museum of American Indian in Washington, DC. Visit Anita's website.
Osage appliqué bowl
Anita Fields, 2004
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ceramic, paint
Gift of Stephen Strom, 2017
2017-78-1
Photo: Anita Fields. Photo by Tom Fields, from anitafieldsart.com.
Susan Folwell was born in 1970 and raised at Santa Clara Pueblo. Many members of her extended family are well-known innovative ceramicists. Her grandmother was famed matriarch Rose Naranjo and her mother, Jody Folwell, is celebrated for her avant-garde work. Through her own innovative ceramic pieces, Susan creates commentary on society and politics. She has won numerous awards at Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Several of her pieces are in museum collections worldwide. In addition, she has been featured in several books, including, “NDN,” “Free Spirit,” and others. Visit Susan's website.
Ledger Pot
Jody Folwell and Susan Folwell, 2015
Pueblo of Santa Clara, NM
Ceramic, acrylic paint
Friends of the ASM Collections
Hartman Lomawaima Memorial Purchase
2015-180-1
Photo: Susan Folwell, Arizona State Museum.
Nora Naranjo-Morse (born 1953) is a Tewa artist and poet from Santa Clara Pueblo. She is the daughter of potter Rose Naranjo and grew up surrounded by women relatives and siblings, all of whom worked with clay. Her work—sculptures and films—can be found in several museum collections including the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. She is the author of the poetry collection, Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay (1992), which combines poems with photographs of her clay figures. She currently resides in Espanola, New Mexico. Visit Nora's website.
Hopi Maiden, detail
Nora Naranjo-Morse, 1992
Pueblo of Santa Clara, NM
Bronze
Gift of Stephen Strom, 2019
2019-115-9
Photo: Nora Naranjo-Morse, from noranaranjomorse.squarespace.com.