Leno, Joyce

Joyce Leno-Barreras was born into Acoma Pueblo in 1952. She was the daughter of Thomas and Juana Leno, granddaughter of Jose Luis and Lupita Vallo. She learned how to make pottery through watching and working with her mother as she was growing up. It seems she was making her own pottery before she was 10 years old. Among her siblings were Phyllis Leno, Rose Leno, Marie Leno, Isabel Leno and Regina Leno Shutiva.

Joyce liked to make polychrome bowls, jars, seed pots, vases and storyteller figures. She was a participant in the Santa Fe Indian Market from 1985 into the early 2000s.

Joyce was one of the artists mentioned in “The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition” by Barbara A. Babcock and Guy and Doris Monthan (The University of Arizona Press, 1986) p. 136-37.