Grace Chino
(d.)
Acoma
Starburst
4" H
x 4 1/2" D
Grace T. Chino (1929-1994)
was a well respected potter who believed that "each pot
should 'decide' which design is most appropriate" (Schaaf
2002: 89).
Her work can be seen at the
Peabody Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, Harvard
University, the Brooklyn Museum, and at the Albuquerque Museum.
Chino has also been published
in American Indian Art Magazine (1999: 19) and Dillingham (1992:
206-208) and has taken many first place ribbons at Indian Market.
"When I'm doing my pottery
I think of Mom [Marie Z. Chino] first, and that she could help
me. I want to do like she does. She didn't need outlining, she
just painted, and sometimes I do that now. I know the design
and I just do it.
-Grace Chino, quoted in Rick Dillingham,
Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery (1994)
The Chino family, led by the
matriarch Marie Z. Chino, was innovative in adapting the designs
found on prehistoric pottery shards to modern pottery forms.
Grace Chino used a dazzling, esign on a short seed pot. The result
is a form of abstraction that embraces tradition as essential
to innovation.
