Naranjo, Stephanie

Stephanie Naranjo was born to Pauline Gutierrez and Frank Naranjo of Santa Clara Pueblo in 1960. Her maternal grandparents were Luther Gutierrez and Lupita Naranjo. She was born into a pottery making household and she showed interest early in life, making her first little figures around the age of eight. Some of her work was included in 1974s Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

For most of her career Stephanie made polychrome bowls, koshare storytellers and pig figures. Back in 1974 her grandfather Luther was mostly collaborating with his sister Margaret. When Luther died in 1987, Margaret started working with his daughter Pauline. About a year later Pauline died and Margaret started working with Stephanie. Then Margaret passed on in 2018.