Taos Pueblo Micaceous Clay Pot with Fire Clouds by Angie Yazzie, 5\" x 8\" For Sale

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Taos Pueblo micaceous clay pot with fire clouds by award winning artist Angie Yazzie, pit-fired and hand coiled with extremely thin walls. Approx: 5\" tall x 8\"

ANGIE YAZZIE

Award-winning potter Angie Yazzie is a member of the Taos Pueblo Tribe. She was born June 16, 1965, and has lived in Taos all of her life. She was introduced at an early age to the techniques of traditional pottery making by her mother Mary Archuleta (Pob Calle) and her grandmother, Isabel Archuleta, both of Taos Pueblo. Angie was making bean pots and other traditional shapes by the age of eight. She now passes on the tradition to her children and grandchild.

Angie is considered a Master of micaceous clay pottery. In 1994, she was invited, along with nine others considered masters of the art, to a convocation at the School of American Research in Santa Fe which led to the book “All that Glitters” by Duane Anderson and an annual micaceous pottery show.

Angie’s pottery is recognized for its thin walls and variety of shapes. Her micaceous clay pottery gleams with a special shine due to the tiny sheets of mica silicate that is naturally found in the clay. When fired, the mica sheets fuse into a glassine ceramic. Angie’s pottery is all hand-coiled, smoothed and sanded — never thrown on a wheel. Each piece is traditionally fired in an outside pit with dry cedar wood and bark. The firing method gives each piece its own unique finish, sometimes displaying “fire clouds” of grays and blacks on the otherwise red clay.

Angie Yazzie’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio, the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, California, the Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe. Several of her pieces are in the vault of the School of American Research in Santa Fe.

AWARDS & PRESENTATIONS

Eight Northern Pueblo Show:
2008 — 1st place, Micaceous Pottery
2007 — 2nd place, Micaceous Pottery
2006 — 1st place, Best of Traditional Pottery
2005 — 2nd place, Unpainted Pottery
2003 — 1st and 2nd places, Unpainted Pottery
2001 — 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, Unpainted Pottery
2000 — 1st and 3rd places, Unpainted Pottery

Taos Invitational:
2004 — Best in Pottery
2001 — Best of Show
2000 — Best of Pottery

Taos Art Museum:
2000 — Best in Unpainted Pottery Division

Taos Invites Taos:
1996 — Best of Pottery

Santa Fe Indian Market:
2007 — 2nd Place Traditional Pottery
2006 — 3rd Place Traditional Pottery
2005 — Best in Division,
1st Place Traditional Pottery
1st Place Other Forms of Pottery
2003 — 1st Place Traditional Pottery
2nd Place Other Forms Pottery
2002 — Best in Division,
1st & 3rd Places Unpainted Pottery
1st Place Other Forms of Pottery
2001 — 2nd Place Unpainted Division Pottery
2000 — 1st Place Non-Traditional/Micaceous Pottery
1999 — 1st Place Traditional Pottery
2nd Place Non-Traditional Pottery
1998 — 1st and 2nd Places Micaceous Pottery
1996 — 2nd and 3rd Places Traditional Pottery

Museum of Women in the Arts:
2015 — Panel of women artists

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