Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe... Read full biography
Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, which was 24 miles from home. While attending Indian School in Santa Fe her mother and... Read full biography
Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, which was 24 miles from home. While attending Indian School in Santa Fe her mother and father died and she was sent to live with relatives in Southern California. Here she worked as a maid for a short time in Beverly Hills. At the age of 20, Blue Corn married Santiago 'Sandy' Calabaza who... Read full biography
Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, which was 24 miles from home. While attending Indian School in Santa Fe her mother and father died and she was sent to live with relatives in Southern California. Here she worked as a maid for a short time in Beverly Hills. At the age of 20, Blue Corn married Santiago 'Sandy' Calabaza who was a silversmith from Santo Domingo pueblo. Together they settled at San Ildefonso where she bore and raised ten children. During World War II, Blue Corn worked as a house cleaner in Los Alamos for the physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. She was... Read full biography
Blue Corn was born "Crucita Calabaza" at San Ildefonso Pueblo. She learned to make pottery from her mother. Blue Corn attended school at the Pueblo in her early years. She then went to Santa Fe Indian School, which was 24 miles from home. While attending Indian School in Santa Fe her mother and father died and she was sent to live with relatives in Southern California. Here she worked as a maid for a short time in Beverly Hills. At the age of 20, Blue Corn married Santiago 'Sandy' Calabaza who was a silversmith from Santo Domingo pueblo. Together they settled at San Ildefonso where she bore and raised ten children. During World War II, Blue Corn worked as a house cleaner in Los Alamos for the physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. She was renowned for her polychrome Blue Corn pottery but also for her distinctive blackware. During her career, she made black on black, redware and... Read full biography
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