A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the... Read full biography
A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the members making a living by raising cattle. After high school, Lonnie Vigil went to Denver where he... Read full biography
A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the members making a living by raising cattle. After high school, Lonnie Vigil went to Denver where he earned a junior accounting degree, having followed a path to fulfill his mother's advice to become a business person. On a scholarship, he entered the business administration program at Eastern New Mexico... Read full biography
A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the members making a living by raising cattle. After high school, Lonnie Vigil went to Denver where he earned a junior accounting degree, having followed a path to fulfill his mother's advice to become a business person. On a scholarship, he entered the business administration program at Eastern New Mexico University, took a job as a loan officer at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, and then was promoted to a similar job at a national level in Washington DC. However, a defining moment was attending a Native American gathering at the Kennedy... Read full biography
A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the members making a living by raising cattle. After high school, Lonnie Vigil went to Denver where he earned a junior accounting degree, having followed a path to fulfill his mother's advice to become a business person. On a scholarship, he entered the business administration program at Eastern New Mexico University, took a job as a loan officer at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, and then was promoted to a similar job at a national level in Washington DC. However, a defining moment was attending a Native American gathering at the Kennedy Center, and in 1982, he headed back to Nambe to get in touch with his own culture and to pursue his creative instincts. His gathering of "g... Read full biography
Lonnie Vigil - Artist Info
About Lonnie Vigil: Books
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)