Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion eighteenth-century retablos and bultos

eighteenth-century retablos and bultos

Burning love and crushing loss

wild cheetahs once were found in most of Africa

pliable adobe architecture of Northern New Mexico

David Roberts set out to try to answer these questions and to bring this remarkable historical episode to life

Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion eighteenth-century retablos and bultosMartha Arquero was born in 1944 into the Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. She has been making pottery sculptures since the late 1960s, inspired to continue the family tradition of clay sculpting by her Mother, Damacia Cordero. She uses all natural pigments to hand coil her sculptures, gathering the clay from the hills nearby her home. Martha makes a variety of pottery, from traditional storytellers and nativity scenes to playful characters and comic book