ROSEMARY APPLEBLOSSOM LONEWOLF

Rosemary Apoleblossom Lonewolf, an
irlisvceramist, Originally from New
Mexico, was in Victoria for the Native
Ars Studies Association Conference and
spent Saturday, October 16, giving a lec-
ture and slide presentation to the
Acnowemuith Potters Guild. Lonewallis an
infemational artast collected both privately
and publicly. Same of her pieces are in
museums throughout the United States
including the Smithsonian Institute which
also has works by her father, Joseph
Lonewolf. She talked not only about her-
self but also about other artists in her
family, all world-renowned Pueblo artists.

She stowed slides of mural-size person-
ally expressive Work as well as many small
pots beautifully incised. Pottery for hun-
dreds of years was a family tradition in the
Pueblos, the area known as the four cor-
ners Where New Mexico, Arvona, Utah
and Colorado meet. Everybody took part
in the process even children. Rosemary
learned the art of making pots, painting
and incising them as partof her early daily
aclivibes, She showed the first pot she had
created from beginning to end. She was
fifteen and by then had known the ttre.
cies of clay for a long ime. In fact the
notion of whe did this? was a perplexing
one for these anists when the tourist and
artalicionados Started taking an interest in
Puebla work. Several people could have
and often did work on one prece but io
salisly this penchant for identity, they be-
gan signing their work in the early nine-
een hundreds.

Rosemary Lonewolf has stretched her tal-
ents tonclude very personal observations
in her designs. She works with the tradi-
ional shape of a pot but combines the
representational, stylized designs handed
down by her fanuly and incorporates mod-
em cancepts. If the pot does nm seem to
have enough space for the design, she
turns it upside down! Her more recent pots
are very small; three inches high is not
unusual, When displayed upside down,
the central focus is.a scene that Wraps itself
around the shoulders of the piece, en-
croaching on other designs,

The design that reveals Ms. Lonewoll’s
slance between her heritage and the non-
Pucblo culture is Tie Garden State as
Viewed from the Land of Enchantneent.
[iwas inspired from herexperiences Living
in New Jersey, the Ganden Staic. The land
of eachantment refers to New Mexion. On
ont side of this mot is * hyuro pole, a
monument lo electricity; oexl to i is a
Kachina figure, the icon that depicts the
spirituality of all things for the southwest-
em natives. The power pole mimics the
Kachina, its annsakimbo. Rosemary com-
mented that both images represent sources
of power. Also on this pot is the New
Jersey turnpike and a fernale figure, arms
oulstretched toward a distant mesa and
two stalks of com, which represent man
and woman. In another work she carved
coils of barbed wire in @ concentration
camp style ground the centre of one piece
after a dispuse with her brother-in-law
overaccess lo her land; he had blocked the
rod,

aces dete! ofan a FMA, Chandler,
Anmand

Rasemary has just completed a yearlong
project at the YMCA complex in Chan:

dler, Anwona, where she now lives. This

work consists of one large mural and
smaller murals placed on columns, They
are done on cement board and screwed in
place allowing her to retneve the pieces in
the future Uf necessary.

Rasemary Lonewolf is a meer artist
with strong links to her hentage. Her son,
Adam Speckle Rock works with her and
has become an accomplished. artist. She
stil] returns to Santa Clara to perform in
the seasonal Com Dance. She attended the
Beijing Conference on Wornen’s Issues a
few years ago and continues bo promate
the well being of bah natives and women
in her art work and lecture series.

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