AFA 20th Anniversary

2020 Antiques & Fine Art 155 All of the objects in this new exhibition are a celebration of American pottery in their form, function, and whimsical flourishes. Their stories reveal regional, ethnic, and gender diversity in the wares made by potters across the United States, from Massachusetts to New Mexico.  Angelika R. Kuettner is the associate curator of ceramics and glass, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia. Suzanne Findlen Hood is a former curator of ceramics and glass, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Photography by Jason B. Copes. continued from page 148 Jar, Katherine (Kathy) Pino (b. 1935), Zia Pueblo, N.Mex., ca. 1970. Earthenware. H. 6 inches. Colonial Williamsburg Collections, Museum Purchase (2019.900.2). The people of the Zia Pueblo have a strong pottery tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. Katherine Pino, maker of this jar, is a member of a well-known Zia potting family. Today, she and other family members continue to manufacture traditional Zia pottery. This matte-painted jar features a large stylized roadrunner created with the same slip-and- painting technique used by her ancestors. Elvis , Georgia Blizzard (1919–2002), Chilhowie, Smyth County, Va., 1998. Earthenware. H. 10½ inches. Gift of Folk Art Society of America (2001.900.1). Georgia Blizzard began her pottery career in 1958 when she began selling low-fired earthenware pots through a neighbor who had contacts in the art world. Illness had led to the loss of her job at a textile mill, her husband had died, and she was left to support her sister and daughter. As a child in rural southwestern Virginia, Georgia and her sister, May, had fashioned objects from clay they dug out of creek beds. As an adult, much of Georgia’s work was glazed using found materials including leaves, dried dung, rubber scraps, and coal. Potting was a very personal expression for Blizzard, and she stated in an interview: “I can get rid of taunting, unknowing things by bringing them out where I can see them . . . I feel the need to do it. It’s all I have left.”