Ami, Ramona

“It gives me pleasure to create pieces that I usually was not planning on in the beginning. Working with clay gives me a good feeling.”

Ramona Ami is a Hopi potter from the Sichomovi Butterfly Clan. Her parents were Emma and Hale Adams. She was born in February 1929 but didn’t produce any pottery for the marketplace until she was in her 50s. That was after she learned how to make pottery from her sister, Marcella Kahe.

Although she got started relatively late in life, Ramona went on to participate in venues like the Sedona Hopi Gathering, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Arts Fair & Market, the Pueblo Grande Pottery Show and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show. Dr. Schaaf records that she earned a Best of Division award at one of them.