Nolan Youvella

Walpi Village
(as seen in our ad in the Smithsonian's American Indian Magazine - NMAI)

5½"H x 5½"D


Born in 1970 to Wally Youvella Sr. and Iris Polacca Nampeyo, Nolan Youvella has taken up the craft of his heritage in typical Nampeyo fashion: original. He is corn clan of the Tewa village at Hano, First Mesa on the Hopi Indian reservation.

Nolan traces his roots through his mother, back to his grandmother Fannie Nampeyo, and once more to his great grandmother, Nampeyo. Their blood flows through his veins, as well as their creative inspiration.

Nolan first began his pottery making journey at age eleven. Following more closely in the footsteps of his mother, but also influenced by his father, as well as his uncle, Tom Polacca, Nolan produces a type of pottery known as appliqued buffware.

It has a characteristic very similar to that of his mother's pottery. The surfaces are always highly polished and the natural color of the clay is allowed to shine through. However, he has incorporated the sgraffito techniques of his uncle in etching Hopi symbols on the walls of his work.

Most recently, Nolan has graduated into the applique work that depicts various village scenes which are raised up off the surface of the pottery in a detailed fashion. Here you can see each tiny brick re-created in the pueblo landscape and architecture.

This piece he calls "Walpi Village" because of its likeness to the traditional village at First Mesa, of which there have been many classic artistic re-creations.

Nolan's work appears in nearly every major publication on Hopi pottery including Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies, by Gregory Schaff; Fourteen Families of Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham; Nampeyo: Legacy of a Master Pottery by Mary Ellen Blair; and Art of the Hopi by Jerry and Lois Jacka, as well as others.

Gallery Price: $1,200.00

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