Curator Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo) is a former mechanical engineer and now full-time fashion designer and multimedia artist.
Michelle Lowden (Water jar)
Curator Michelle Lowden is the founder and owner of Milo Creations, a company that has grown from creating Acoma-influenced jewelry to offering such products as wool blankets, silk scarves, and graphic work. She is a daughter of the Bear Clan, passed down from her mother, Roberta Charlie, and of the Yellow Corn Clan, passed down from her father, Aaron Lowden. She is fortunate to call her ancestral home, the Pueblo of Acoma (known as Haak’u in Keres), her current home.
Claudia Mitchell (storage jar)
Curator Claudia Mitchell is a self-taught Acoma traditional potter who learned from watching her grandmother Lucy, mother, Emma, and aunts Dolores and Carmel.
Claudia Mitchell (water jar)
Curator Claudia Mitchell is a self-taught Acoma traditional potter who learned from watching her grandmother Lucy, mother, Emma, and aunts Dolores and Carmel.
Stephanie Riley (Acoma Jar with Parrot)
Stephanie Riley is an Acoma woman, mother, and potter. She is also Registrar for Cultural Projects at the Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.
Stephanie Riley (Acoma Water Jar)
Stephanie Riley is an Acoma woman, mother, and potter. She is also Registrar for Cultural Projects at the Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.
Brian Vallo (Acoma water jar)
Brian D. Vallo is a member of the Pueblo of Acoma tribe in New Mexico, and served as Governor in 2019–21. He has more than thirty years’ experience working in areas of museum development, cultural resources management, repatriation of ancestors and cultural patrimony, historic architecture preservation, the arts, and tourism. He currently serves as an advisor to the Field Museum, Chicago, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. A self-taught painter and potter, he is inspired by the natural environment and elements, which he incorporates into his multimedia paintings.
Brian Vallo (Acoma storage jar)
Brian D. Vallo is a member of the Pueblo of Acoma tribe in New Mexico, and served as Governor in 2019–21. He has more than thirty years’ experience working in areas of museum development, cultural resources management, repatriation of ancestors and cultural patrimony, historic architecture preservation, the arts, and tourism. He currently serves as an advisor to the Field Museum, Chicago, and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. A self-taught painter and potter, he is inspired by the natural environment and elements, which he incorporates into his multimedia paintings.