Roxanne Swentzell, resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo, is the daughter of Rina Swentzell. From a family of renowned potters and sculptors, her talent was recognized early, and she was given the... Read full biography
Roxanne Swentzell, resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo, is the daughter of Rina Swentzell. From a family of renowned potters and sculptors, her talent was recognized early, and she was given the opportunity to spend two years at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating... Read full biography
Roxanne Swentzell, resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo, is the daughter of Rina Swentzell. From a family of renowned potters and sculptors, her talent was recognized early, and she was given the opportunity to spend two years at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating from high school where her pieces first began to grow in size. From there she attended the Portland Museum Art School for a year. Swentzell was 22 when she first displayed her works at the annual Indian... Read full biography
Roxanne Swentzell, resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo, is the daughter of Rina Swentzell. From a family of renowned potters and sculptors, her talent was recognized early, and she was given the opportunity to spend two years at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating from high school where her pieces first began to grow in size. From there she attended the Portland Museum Art School for a year. Swentzell was 22 when she first displayed her works at the annual Indian Market in Santa Fe. There, in 1986, she won a total of eight awards for her unique sculpture and pottery, and in 1994, she also won the Market's Creative Excellence in Sculpture award. Among her most popular works is the Emergence of the Clowns,... Read full biography
Roxanne Swentzell, resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo, is the daughter of Rina Swentzell. From a family of renowned potters and sculptors, her talent was recognized early, and she was given the opportunity to spend two years at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before graduating from high school where her pieces first began to grow in size. From there she attended the Portland Museum Art School for a year. Swentzell was 22 when she first displayed her works at the annual Indian Market in Santa Fe. There, in 1986, she won a total of eight awards for her unique sculpture and pottery, and in 1994, she also won the Market's Creative Excellence in Sculpture award. Among her most popular works is the Emergence of the Clowns, which toured the US, Canada and New Zealand as a part of the Heard Museum's exhibition, Shared Visions, and showed at the White House in the... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
2012
Russell, Karen Kramer
244 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Women Potters: Transforming Traditions
2004
Vincentelli, Moira
0 pages (color)
Roxanne Swentzell Extraordinary People
2002
Fauntleroy, Gussie
96 pages (color)
Contemporary Ceramics
2000
Peterson, Susan
0 pages (color)
Clay People: Pueblo Indian Figurative Traditions (Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Batkin, Jonathan
0 pages (color)
Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Souracebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas
1999
Farris, Phoebe
0 pages (color)
Native North American Art: Oxford History of Art
1998
Berlo, Janet C.; Ruth B. Phillips
0 pages (color)
Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices
1997
Wilson, Darryl Babe; Lois Crozier-Hogle, Jay Leibold
0 pages (color)
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America