Gutierrez, Melony

Melony Gutierrez is a potter from Santa Clara Pueblo. She is also a basket weaver and an educator. She says she learned to make pottery after becoming Sammy Naranjo‘s partner.

Legoria Tafoya was Melony’s great-grandmother but through the generations, her family line trended into weaving baskets and away from making pottery.

Melony has specialized in making turtle figures with carved, sgraffito and painted designs, sometimes with sienna spots and often with inlaid stones.