Native American ZIA pottery by Sofia Medina

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Polychrome Olla by Master ZIA artist, Sofia Pino Medina You are bidding on a large polychrome (red, black, cream) olla (traditional style storage jar) created by one of the best Zia Pueblo potters, Sofia Medina . Born the 1932, Sofia learned how to create traditional Zia pottery from one of the most famous traditional Zia potters -- Trinidad Medina (her husband's grandmother). Since 1963, Sofia Medina has been creating much-sought-after pots in the traditional style Zia pottery using long-established methods and using materials gatd from the Zia Pueblo . Her hand-coiled pots are created in the Medina family tradition; she cleans and mixes local clay, fires her pot outdoors, and creates her colors from natural plants and minerals also found within the Zia Pueblo. Sofia has taught her children these traditional methods of pot-making and is is the matriarch of the Medina family of potters. Sofia Medina's work is in the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology at Wichita State University , at the Smithsonian Institution , in private collections, and can be seen at the Albuquerque International Airport. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2,000 Artist Biographies, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery, Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni, and Talking with the Clay . She has won awards for read more

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