Clay Storyteller Demonstration with Carol Lucero (Jemez Pueblo)

Join us at Coronado Historic Site for our artist demonstration program from May through October on the last Saturday of the month. New Mexico is home to 19 federally recognized Pueblos and Arizona is home to 12 Hopi villages. The artist demonstration program will highlight six artists from these groups. Visitors can meet Indigenous artists as they practice their style of traditional and contemporary arts.

This month, watch Carol G. Lucero Gachupin (Jemez Pueblo) demonstrate how she makes clay storytellers. Carol is a well-known Jemez Pueblo potter who learned the art from her mother, Margaret Lucero, and acclaimed pottery artist Marie Romero. Carol loved to draw as a kid, and attended drawing classes after school led by renowned artist Alfred “Al” Momaday, father of N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D., the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature. She uses traditional pottery methods passed down through generations, first making her own natural clay and pigments, then molding and painting her figures by hand, and finally firing outdoors. Inspired by memories of her grandfather telling stories around the fire and dinner table, Carol specializes in storyteller figures, and is known for the incredible level of detail and sophisticated painting in her figurines.

Included with admission of $7 for adults and free to children 16 and younger, people with Native/Tribal affiliations, NM disabled veterans, NM foster families, and MNMF and FCJHS members.

Photo courtesy of Carol G. Lucero Gachupin.