Dwight Lanman is the former director and curator of both the Winterthur Museum in Delaware and New York's Corning Museum of Glass, and has collected pueblo pottery for 20 years. 
Dr. Jerry Brody, who has been widely published, was a professor at the University of New Mexico in the Art History department for over 30 years. He was also the Director of the Maxwell Museum. His book, Mimbres Painted Pottery published in 1977 by the School of American Research, Santa Fe, is a classic on the Mimbres people and their ceramics.
Born around 1898, Lucy Lewis learned to make pottery by watching other Acoma women, through observation and experimentation, rather than formal art training. She began to move away from traditional Acoma designs and to develop her own black on white fine-line hatch designs and was one of a handful of women from her generation that brought recognition to southwestern pottery through innovation and dedication to artistic traditions. Lucy Lewis died in 1992 and her daughters continue the use of authentic techniques traditional to Acoma potters in their own pottery.
Charles King has been a judge for pottery at the most prestigious Indian art events, such as Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Indian Market and Gallup Ceremonials. He has written about pottery in the book Collecting Authentic Indian Art and an article in American Indian Art Magazine entitled, "Pueblo Pottery: Folk Art to Fine Art." His first book, Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya, was published in 2008.
Nathan Youngblood learned to make pottery by watching his grandmother "the matriarch of Santa Clara potters," Margaret Tafoya. Using traditional techniques, he often incorporates non-Tewa designs such as abstract shapes into his pieces and has received numerous awards. His work has been exhibited at the White House and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado.
Christine McHorse is a first generation, full-blooded Navajo ceramic artist. She married Joel McHorse, a Taos Pueblo Indian, and learned to make pots through his grandmother, Lena Archuleta, who taught her to work with micaceous clay, a rare but naturally occurring clay high in mica content that can be found in the Taos area. McHorse has since become one of the most admired and successful Native potters, working with traditional techniques making reductive, sculptural pots. She has the unique distinction of winning Best in Show for both pottery and sculpture at the annual Santa Fe Indian Market.
As a 30-year resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Joan Caballero has spent most of her time working in the field of Native American Arts. For the last 12 years she has worked actively as an appraiser of Native American Arts (antique and contemporary), New Mexican Hispanic Arts, Southwest Regional Fine Arts (Taos and Santa Fe schools and living artists), general American antiquities and depreciable goods.
Leroy Garcia is owner of the Blue Rain Galleries in Santa Fe and Scottsdale. The focus of Native American art has remained vital to Blue Rain Gallery's reputation and core; however, the place where Blue Rain Gallery makes its mark is with its continued commitment to innovation and refinement. Garcia was recently elected to the Board of Trustees for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.
Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo, is known for her full-length clay figures that represent the complete spectrum of the human spirit. Although she has a mainstream art education, her work and sensibilites are firmly grounded in a sense of Pueblo identity. In 1999, she won Best of Sculpture at the Santa Fe Indian Market with a larger-than-life bronze.
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