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Black Bear, a member of the Blackfeet nation in Montana, lived in northern New Mexico for 27 years. "I ran, hunted, hiked, and sweated that landscape -- it is a living part of me". Black Bear seeks to tell the stories of life and living through storytelling and his art. It is the Indian way.

14" X 12"

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Pedernal, a flat-topped volcanic core, is located in the Abiquiu Valley of northern New Mexico. Georgia O'Keeffe once said, "I own that mountain". However, indigenous peoples have come to that mountain for thousands of years, using the chert for making their axes, knives and arrowheads. Even tribes that did not get along, respected each other while camped there -- a recognition of common need. It is truly a "sacred space".

My Gia (mother in the Tewa language) demonstrated to me that simplicity and elegant form spoke for itself. I watched her as she worked and like the "old cook", she threw her "ingredients" together, slapped the clay around here and there and whether short or tall, wide or thin, her forms emerged simple and elegant.

18" X 11"

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9" X 7"

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Water Spirits, or Avanyu, played an important role in the stories of Pueblo peoples as water was scarce. The water spirit symbolizes presence of water -- Water is sacred as a life-giving source. I have taken the traditional design and made it stylized and friendly -- fiting well around the shoulder of the pot

The design was inspired by seeing the blue herons standing in the waters of Cave Run Lake, near our home. We were pokeboating (cross between a kayak and a canoe) in the little side hollers that had been flooded when the dam was built on the Licking River. The herons are so beautiful and graceful.

17" X 11"

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Detailed view

5" X 7"

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Rattlesnakes! Feared by many, revered by so many! To be respected, for sure. At the same time, for most Indigenous peoples, snakes were seen as symbols of transformation and frequently, symbols of healing. The caduceus of Greek medicine symbolizes the healing powers of the physician. In medieval Europe, snakes were seen as "keepers of the hearth" (would eat rodents that invaded the home).

Chimney Rock, overlooking the Abiquiu Valley of northern New Mexico. At its base lies the Ghost Ranch, a Presbyterian adult education center. Memories of "art and the healing process" workshops include taking the participants on a hike up out of the valley to the mesa top and out onto the tip. For many, it is a rite of passage, a "journey" of life.

8" X 8"

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