Event Details

Join us at Coronado Historic Site for our monthly artist demonstration with artist Dolores Lewis Garcia (Acoma Pueblo). Dolores will demonstrate ancient, traditional clay pottery techniques she learned from her mother, the renowned, late, Lucy M. Lewis.

Dolores has been around great pottery artists her whole life, but she is also a self-taught artisan, learning the ancient traditional methods of working with clay by carefully observing her mother construct pottery vessels. Dolores chose to continue the long-lived tradition of working with pottery because of the importance of keeping her people’s traditions alive. Dolores gathers her own natural pigments and clays from the clay pits within the Acoma Pueblo. She cleans her clay for impurities by hand, then, she hand mixes, hand coils, hand paints, and uses a traditional firing method to add the finishing touch to her wonderful masterpieces.

Admission is free to NM residents, children 16 and younger, Tribal members, NM disabled veterans, NM foster families, and MNMF and FCJHS members. Admission for non-residents is $7 for adults.