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Born 1962 Taos, New Mexico. Known for: Santa Clara Pueblo motif sculpture and pottery.
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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Art Method
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
Art Association
- •American Women Artists
Art School
- •Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Artist Has Artist Family Members
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Indian, Native American
- •Santa Clara Pueblo
Exhibition of Museum
- •Heard Museum Indian Market
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Santa Fe Indian Market