Fragua, Virginia Ponca

Virginia Ponca Fragua was born into Jemez Pueblo in September 1961. She was the daughter of Moses and Leonora G. Fragua and granddaughter of Persingula Gachupin. She learned to make pottery from watching and working with her grandmother. Her mother helped to fine tune her painting process. She became an active potter in the marketplace while she was still a teenager, making traditional buff polychrome on polished red jars, bowls, storytellers and melon bowls.

Virginia’s favorite designs include corn plants, corn, feathers-in-a-row, lightning, terraced rain clouds, melons, rainbows, kiva steps and the circle-of-life.