Meet Pam Lujan-Hauer
Written on July 14, 2011 by ars long
Filed Under: Art
Pam Lujan Hauer is an outstanding Native American artist, specializing in pottery. Her work is ground-breaking (no pun intended). She gathers micaceous clay from the Taos area, where she is a member of the Taos Pueblo Tribe.
The clay she often uses to build her Pueblo Pottery contains small specks of mica. The mica serves as a self-tempering substance and lends considerable strength to Lujan-Hauer’s pottery. The clay is indenus to the Taos area and continues to be used by local Native potters for utilitarian pottery.
Lujan-Hauer’s work, however, is “art”. She creates objects today that are made from red and white clays, over painted with black designs related to the local vegetation. Other signature work by her uses inlay of silver to define designs, a technique she has pioneered.
Most recently, she was recognized by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, the prestigious presenters of the Annual Santa Fe Indian Market, with a Discovery Fellowship for 2011. These are awarded to artist that are exploring creative directions.
Lujan-Hauer’s talents were honed by teachers, Josephine Ortiz and Anita Lujan, her great-aunts. She also studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has demonstrated her techniques at the New Mexico State Fair, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, the Maxwell Museum (Albuquerque) and Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts
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