SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET 2024 OFFICIAL ARTIST DIRECTORY

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO

Cecelia Lucy Leuppe McKelvey

Navajo Nation
Name
Cecelia Lucy McKelvey
Booth
FR N 308
Website
Description

I am a self-taught potter that has spent over fifty years experimenting with all kinds of found and home refined materials to create my pottery art using these materials. They are all hand coiled and painted using these natural found clays and tempers, polishing slips and paints (the black paint coming from hematite rock ground on a stone pallet and mixed with a type of dried molasses made from bee plant juice). The pots are all stone polished and fired outside using juniper wood and sheep dung. Pottery is traditionally fired outside.