Seeing these pieces wheelwrightmuseum in #santafe created by our mom Seferina Ortiz brings back so many happy memories and inspiration. We miss you mom!🫶🏼🙏🏽 Bathing Beauties, circa 1980-90 Clay and natural pigment Wheelwright Museum Collection, Gift of Jim, Alice, Gifford, and Joanne Phillips, and Marjore Phillips Elliot Around 1870, potters at Cochiti Pueblo began to develop a unique art form. Using locally gathered clay and traditional methods of construction, they created freestanding, ceramic caricatures of acrobats, sideshow performers, Anglo cowboys, Mexican merchants, and other denizens of New Mexico. Sometimes standing more than two feet tall, these material figurines are masterpieces of engineering and craftsmanship. Born at Cochiti in 1931, artist Seferina Ortiz began her journey to becoming a great matriarch and a well-respected ceramicist of her generation. Her lineage of renowned and equally innovative ceramists included her son, Virgil Ortiz, daughter Janice Ortiz, an...