The Best of Show winner at the 67th annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market had never entered this market before. Rebecca Lucario (Acoma, Yellow Corn clan) said she was completely surprised by her win.
Her Four Seasons & North Star is a ceramic platter with intricate fine-line designs in black-on-white slip with burnt sienna triangle accents strategically brightening the design. She painstakingly painted the fine lines with yucca brushes. Her mathematically perfect geometric designs are a masterful exercise in Op Art, pulsating and moving the eye inward and outward across the surface.
“I didn’t think to do pottery in the first place,” Lucario admitted. “When I was young, growing up, my grandmother made me do the whole process by myself. I had to go dig my clay, go grab my sherds, pick my paints, and go manure-picking and everything.”
She began when she was eight years old, and despite her initial misgivings, she’s grateful to her grandmother, Dolores S. Sanchez, for teaching her pottery and encouraging her to pursue education. Pottery called her back in the 1980s. “After I had my youngest daughter in ’93, I just went full-time back to my pottery.”
Lucario lives in Acoma Pueblo, and says, “Come by and say hello. I do all my work there. I grind my own clay, dig my own clay, do everything myself. And, I know it’s time-consuming, but I hope, and I encourage people, young artists from my Pueblo to take interest in it even though, yes, it is hard.”
With more than 650 Indigenous artists, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market is the largest and oldest Native art market in Arizona. It’s the second largest and oldest art market in the nation, attracting artists from Alaska to New York, and several First Nations artists from Canada. The Heard Fair is organized by the all-volunteer Heard Museum Guild organizes this market as a benefit to the Heard Museum.
Classification winners are as follows. Click on the image to enlarge.
Classification Winners
I. Jewelry and Lapidary
Best of Classification: Benson Manygoats (Diné), Olé Blue
II. Pottery
Best of Classification: Rebecca Lucario (Acoma), Four Seasons & North Star
III. Two-Dimensional Art
Best of Classification: Quinn Honanie (Hopi), Kepok Katsinum
IV. Pueblo Carvings
Best of Classification: Donald Lomawunu Sockyma (Hopi), The Eagle Has Landed
V. Sculpture
Best of Classification: Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee/Seminole), Continuum–Words of Power Across Time
VI. Weavings & Textiles
Best of Classification: Roy Kady (Diné), Dr. Sunnie
VII. Diverse Art Forms
Best of Classification: Jamie Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock) and Sandra Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock), The Happy Couple
VIII. Baskets
Best of Classification: Kathryn Kooyahoema (Hopi), Basket of Dragonflies
Conrad House Award (Best of Innovation)
Benjamin West (Otoe-Missouria/Southern Cheyenne/Muscogee), #Heal the Everglades
Idyllwild Arts Imagination Award
Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota), Lakota Veterans
Indian Arts & Crafts Association Commemorative Award
Ronald Honyouti (Hopi), To Oi Naaka (Stacked Earrings)
Youth Art Show
Best of Youth Art Show: Aydrian Day (Ho-Chunk/Anishinaabe/Lakota), Hoocąk Manape
Links
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- Heard Fair Winners: 2024 | 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017
- 67th Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market | March 1 & 2, 2025
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