Antique Laguna Artwork

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Until fairly recent times the traditional pottery produced by Native Americans who lived in the Laguna Pueblo was in decline. But in the early 1970s a revival of the potter’s art began as gifted artists started teaching and encouraging younger generations. Evelyn Cheromiah (b. 1928) of the Roadrunner Clan, began to instruct her daughter, LeeAnn (b.1954) and others.

Laguna Potter Gladys Paquin also was instrumental, among others, in reviving Laguna’s dying pottery traditions. One of Paquin’s students was Myron Sarracino (b. 1967), who also taught her son, Andrew Padilla, to make pottery. He departed from traditional Laguna designs to make elegant white melon-shaped pots. Designs by the senior Laguna potters today show close kinship to Acoma, but they also draw upon influence from practices at the pueblos of Zia and Santa Ana. Laguna, in turn, during the late nineteenth century dispersed potters to the nearby Isleta pueblo.

Differences between the temper or materials in the body of the clay used in Acoma and Laguna have been cited. Even with such distinction, it is difficult to separate antique works made by Laguna from Acoma potters. In essence, they share the same cultural traditions and feature similar decorative motifs in their pottery.

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