Anita Suazo

Santa Clara Pueblo

Anita Suazo is a potter from Santa Clara Pueblo. She and her sister (Anna Archuleta) learned the traditional method of making pottery from their mother, Belen Tapia. Collaborating with her husband, Anita makes blackware and redware, polychrome redware, two-tone black-on-black carved pottery and black melon pots. She likes to carve some pots and paint others with avanyu, kiva step, cloud, feather and other designs passed down since ancient times.

She first entered the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1979 and has been consistently earning ribbons ever since. Along with Margaret Tafoya and 42 other Santa Clara potters she was a participant in a 1985 show at the Sid Deusch Gallery in New York. In 1986 she earned the Jack Hoover Memorial Award for excellence in Santa Clara pottery. Pieces of her work can be seen at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Anita Suazo | Anita 2

Carved black melon jar

Black carved melon jar
3.5 in H by 3 in Dia

Flat-topped carved black jar

Carved flat-topped black jar
2.5 in H by 6.25 in Dia

Sunflower design carved into a red jar

Polished red jar carved with a sunflower design
2.75 in H by 3.5 in Dia

Red melon jar

Carved red melon jar
3 in H by 5 in Dia

Ribs and kiva step design carved into a red jar

Red jar carved with ribs and a kiva step design
3 in H by 3.5 in Dia

Red carved melon jar

Carved red melon jar
3 in H by 4.5 in Dia

Sunflower design carved into a red on red jar

Red on red jar carved with a sunflower design
3.25 in H by 5 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a red jar

Red jar carved with a geometric design
2.5 in H by 3.25 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a black on black melon jar

Black on black melon jar carved with a geometric design
3.5 in H by 4.5 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a black jar

Black jar carved with a swirl geometric design
2.5 in H by 3.5 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a red jar

Red jar carved with a geometric design
2.5 in H by 3.5 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a black melon jar

Carved black melon jar
4.75 in H by 6 in Dia

Bear and geometric design carved into a black jar with a sienna spot

Black jar carved with a bear and geometric design
4.25 in H by 4.25 in Dia

Geometric design carved into a red melon jar

Red melon jar carved with a geometric design
2.25 in H by 3.5 in Dia

Carved black melon jar

Black carved melon jar
2.5 in H by 3 in Dia

Black jar carved with a melon design

Black melon jar
3.75 in H by 4.75 in Dia

Anita Suazo | Anita 2

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