I am from Laguna Pueblo. I started making miniature pottery in 1979. My main focus is miniature replications of very old historic pottery from all Pueblos .I grew up in Dallas, TX and moved to NM in the early 1970's. I worked as a journalist for the Laguna Red Times paper. I met my future wife Charmae, while conducting an interview on her and her family's pottery legacy. Charmae and her family became my mentors. They taught me to dig my clay and slips, pick beeweed (wild spinach) and iron oxide stones. The beeweed is boiled to a syrup, dried into bars, wrapped in corn husks. The bar is then ground with the iron oxide on a sand stone slab mixed with water into a paint. My miniatures are made from pinch clay, slipped and high fired in a small open pit w/dried cow dung and cedar;using other large broken pottery shards to cover. My 1st art show was in 1980. Winning many ribbons from SFIM, Pueblo Grande Mus., U of A Museum, NAU, Los Angeles Mus., San Diego Mus., many more places.
