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Tom Tapia
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Tom Tapia

Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), 1946-2015
BiographyPotter, working in the sgaffito style. Often uses a two-tone effect, with a different color clay under the black, stone polish. sgraffito style: unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an outline drawing.

Tom Tapia was born in 1946, Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico. He died in 2015

Learned to make pottery by working with his mother, Leonidas Tapia
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