Lucero, Diana Pino

Diana Pino Lucero was born into the Zia Pueblo Corn clan in December 1958. She was the adopted daughter of Vicentita S. Pino (Zia) and John Pino (Jemez).

Diana learned how to make pottery through watching and working with her mother as she grew up. In 1974 she accompanied her mother and other Jemez artists on a trip to Washington DC where Pat Nixon hosted them. They each presented Mrs. Nixon with a gift of pottery and then toured a couple branches of the Smithsonian Institute, looking at some of Santa Ana’s lost patrimony. Diana still credits her mother as being her first great influence and her husband and children as being her greatest inspirations.

Diana has exhibited at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair & Market, the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show, the Walatowa Arts Festival at Jemez Pueblo and the New Mexico State Fair among other venues. She has earned several ribbons at Santa Fe Indian Market.