Lujan-Hauer, Pam

Born in September 1958, Pam Lujan-Hauer is of mixed Dutch, English, Irish, Tewa and Taos heritage. She paints and makes drums but she also makes pottery: miniatures, jars and figures. Most of her pottery is of the micaceous kind, like the potters of Taos Pueblo have been making for hundreds of years.

Pam says she was taught to make pottery by two of her great aunts: Anita Lujan and Josephine Ortiz. Later she learned more at the Institute for American Indian Arts.

In 2010 Pam earned a First Place award at the Arizona State Museum Southwest Indian Arts Fair. In 2011 she earned the Discovery Award from the Southwest Association for Indian Art. She’s also earned other awards at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Lawrence Indian Art Show in Lawrence, Kansas and others.

The Heard Museum records that she’s showed there several times, earning a Second Place award in 2011 for a non-traditional non-native design or form.