Wallowing Bull, Loren

Loren Wallowing Bull was born into Jemez Pueblo in April 1988. He was partly raised by Linda Lucero Fragua and Phillip Fragua. He showed an interest in working with clay early in life and his birth mother (Felicia Fragua) began teaching him the Jemez traditional way when he was about five years old. Like others of his generation in the Fragua family (Chrislyn, Amy, Anissa and Clifford), his feel for the clay goes way back.

Loren has participated in shows at the Heard Museum, Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show, Tucson Art Museum and the Santa Fe Indian Market. At Santa Fe he earned a First Place ribbon in the Youth Pottery Division and he’s earned a First Place ribbon at the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.

Loren tells us he gets his inspiration from his family and, like them, he truly enjoys making pottery. His favorite shapes are eagles, as storyteller figures and in nativity scenes. He also says he likes to push the style envelope and come up with something new, something different. That’s how he came up with his eagle Nativities and now he can’t make enough of them. Then he moved into making storytellers and Nativities with owls, ravens, stellar jays, parrots…