¡Colores!; 512; María Montoya Martínez and Julian Martínez of San Ildefonso, Helen Cordero of Cochiti, Lucy M. Lewis

Funding for COLORES was Frederick Hammersley Foundation >>THIS SAN ILDEFONSO POTTERS HELPED TO ESTABLISH INDIAN OUTSIDE OF THE >>She always made it a every day, don't forget what you hear, remember. One of these days what I what we are doing, >>COCHITI PUEBLO POTTER STORYTELLER FIGURINES GRANDFATHER'S STORIES. >>We don't write down our word of mouth and we teach be a good listener if >>GENERATIONS OF ACOMA

LEWIS TO EXPERIMENT >>There's just so many She wanted to do what her IT'S ALL AHEAD ON COLORES! >>MARIA AND JULIAN LEGACY SHINES AT THE RESEARCH'S HISTORIC ♪ ♪ >>What I remember most up with was her And she was

Singing is part ♪ ♪ >>With her pottery it was Clay was in her veins. >>A lot of design can natural surroundings, the the way the clouds move, day moves with the nighttime with the full are cast from buildings ♪ ♪ >>The story of Hewett handing

The fascinating thing it wasn't a pottery style It was a black polished the Tewa villages made, her husband took that worked on that sherd ♪ ♪ >>Bartering for goods coming to an end. The money exchang The railroad system that reservation made it

to the East Coast >>She tells the story cook stove with money she wants a car so they have builds her pottery making modern conveniences >>Oh, she was a strong rights, where women's acknowledged at that She was a very important figure She was a keeper One of her models is "be then all else You know, one thing teaches you is patience.

>>My grandmother, my say, "It's polishing day. We want you to sit down child, I didn't care for saw my peers outside with toys, and here I great-grandmother, You have to be diligent hours and to make sure piece that all the prayers you might have made go whoever purchases that pot that pot to, because the never ends, I feel that without people

their art form that life would Some of the traditions wasn't for her, we >>For the most part, it built her pots and she It was my Julian who painted the His brushstroke is always He realized that it needed This shiny black pottery existing body of Julian realized he needed that would accentuate

pottery, rather than be They really reinvented or nobody else had done. >>There's a lot of of these variety It's awe-inspiring. >>I feel when I touch pottery, they're all walk in I always say, "Hello." There are so many stories. I can just see the number telling their stories, and be able to touch. If you are true artist, it

you become a part of the >>As being a man and was the creation of their life it's like There's no end, there's no >>She always made it a every day, "Don't Don't forget Remember." One of these you're doing, what we are ♪ ♪ >>HELEN CORDERO'S

FAMILY TRADITION ALIVE. ♪ ♪ >>Elizabeth Suina: She put soul, her spirit You know, it goes back to, clay and bringing it You know, you offer the start to work with the into it by breathing on with it and putting your >>Bruce Bernstein: What the outside world, the these figures all had narratives, and by personalized pottery for And what Helen kept alive

through her smile and her people was the story of her >>Suina: She was almost a Helen Cordero was not invented the storyteller, also my grandmother and other kids in the Pueblo. She cared about family. She cared about culture. She was very big She can remember, you the other children grandfather tell stories. ♪ ♪ >>Suina: Not only is the

know, from visions, but envisioning that same that goes hand in We don't write They're told, you know, teach, you know, verbally listener, you're gonna, I think her biggest started so late in life. She didn't start until her had kids of their own, and time or that idle time she she just, you know, symmetrical, and it didn't It wasn't something that made, I think, some thought of her

She said, you know, I'm my grandfather and he'll When we create the closed, because he's story as he's telling because he's narrating said, you know, make Guma-tawa and the children you know, she said, "Look, and see how they sit or that's how you place And she always said, and chubby, you know. She liked to see That was her idea of >>Bernstein: Social

this is a long-standing well known for that, for that There is figures at the century, 1880's perhaps, of Spaniards, of Anglos. They appear to be >>Bernstein: Helen grew up of other inventions, other farming and taking care of the traditions Following that period of this rapid increase of Part of it is maybe radio to the village. Part of it is electricity in the 1950's. So, Helen is one of those people Helen telling the story

reminding people that, to that your elders are still have relevance even the things that Helen that these stories that still had a day-to-day They were still >>Suina: When she was you know, her happy place. That was her joy, that was >>Bernstein: Helen's work aesthetically Somehow they anticipate people's appreciation She had that ability to the world, digest it and and through her clay. Her ability as a visionary showing us what the

>>Suina: You know, She really, I want to everybody else. ♪ ♪ >>Suina: Working on the of a way for her to put a when she was growing up into I think that's, you >>ACOMA PUEBLO TRADITION AND EXPANDED IT. >>Garcia: It's a wonderful, It's quiet and if you the sun starts coming up, formations They come out if the sun you look out west at

pretty brilliant red. I always say there's no else in the world. She was born up there. She was raised up there. >>Bernstein: Lucy Lewis of the 20th century when very closed to the outside into the 20th century when World War 2 opened up she really grew up in probably >>Being a Potter means the traditions of she's responsible for traditions, and what I things, for example I mean and harvests her clay or that she's gonna grind for

something that her female and further in the past And so she's very and present and future that she behaves. I think one of the is that we know her name. We talk about people talk about a painter or be one person that we know is one of those people who love to experiment. She loved to explore She loved to have her When you hear her daughter always is working She puts her pottery aside things like that. They travel around because they're doing it's pottery And so it is, it is a

herself as well as >>Garcia: She was an didn't go to school. Nobody taught her. She taught herself, so admire her or >>Garcia: I know where the fine, When my mother started to There's just so many She wanted to do what, you the past have >>Bernstein: Her To use those same designs but her ability, ability pot, sometimes it's a

bowl or a jar that gets it goes up, that the base and then grow smaller as >>Garcia: She did a That's a white background, That what we got that, inspired by looking didn't really make it was. She, you know, did it own style or version. I'd say what my mother the pottery making that know, it's hard work >>Bernstein: Sometimes

like Lucy Lewis or Pueblo just born that way and we was to get as good as pottery, and the constant constant hands in the how she mixed her clay, every step along the way refined to a certain place sold them by the roadside dime or maybe a >>Garcia: That was the fun met all kinds of people through west and east thing about sitting out we used to ask people if that we could have so we >>And she started coming up to

That's where a lot of and bought, you And so, she was about the reservation to >>Bernstein: That first pottery is that You don't see Lucy Lewis important part Think about all the years that she never It's only the insistence she begins to So, although we think an individual or someone also first and foremost >>Garcia: That's where watching her and I want, So I did it on my own. I have everything My elements are all there.

Clay is there. Colors. Yucca brush grows out in the It's there. Everything is there. That's what's really, it's I can, I have all this, what's really important really happy that I'm, I My children have that about how pottery is made left us that legacy Mom, I'm always Even though you're not >>Funding for COLORES

Frederick Hammersley Foundation