Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion and short breaks for bad

and short breaks for bad food in the middle of nowhere showed the West was by no means won

eighteenth-century retablos and bultos

Burning love and crushing loss

This meerkat is carved from a single piece of Jacaranda wood

the museum is the largest of its kind in the world

Martha Arquero Poision Ivy Clay Sculpture Religion and short breaks for badMartha 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