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Loretta "Sunday" Chavarria | |
| Birth Date: 1963 |
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| Loretta Sunday Chavarria was born into Santa Clara Pueblo in 1963. Her parents were Loretto and Stella Chavarria, her grandmother Teresita Naranjo. These matriarchs taught her all the fundamentals of working with clay, and encouraged her to continue the family tradition, perpetuating the legacy of pottery-making. Her pottery was mentioned in the 1974 Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in Albuquerque. She was active in the marketplace as a teenager.
Along with her sister Denise Chavarria, Sunday gathers clay from the hills close to her home at Santa Clara Pueblo. She then cleans the clay, mixes it with white ash, and allows it to set for about a day. She uses the traditional hand-coiling method to form the body, then designs and carves the piece. After it has dried completely, she sands, polishes, and fires the finished piece outdoors, using horse dung to achieve the striking black-on-black effect.
Sunday participated in the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show for many years.
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