Lucy Martin Lewis

Place: Acoma Pueblo

Born: 1890

Death: 1992

Biography:

Lucy Martin Lewis was born and raised in Acoma Pueblo on Sky City mesa and history credits her for reviving the pottery making process at Acoma Pueblo. She is known for her black-on-white decorative ceramics made using traditional techniques. Lucy Lewis is one of the great Matriarch pueblo potters of the 20th century. She worked in the traditional way using Acoma clay, hand coiling, and white slip. She spent her entire life in Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, leaving only to teach ceramics workshops across the country. For more than seven decades, she practiced the art of making dung-fired white pottery, noted for its black 'thin-line' geometric abstractions derived from ancestral designs.