Roller, Jeff

Jeff Roller is the son of award-earning potter Toni Roller and grandson of famed potter Margaret Tafoya. He grew up at Santa Clara Pueblo, surrounded by people making pottery nearly all the time. He began making his own pottery when he was nine.

After high school Jeff became an engineering technician. He continued making pottery in his spare time and soon established himself as an award-earning artist. Jeff quit the engineering tech job in 1988 and devoted himself full time to his pottery.

Jeff still makes pottery the traditional way, with remarkable attention to his crisp carved lines and an evenness to his stone polished surfaces.