Roxanne Swentzell

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Roxanne Swentzell (b. 1962, Taos, New Mexico) (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 exhibition Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House. This piece can be seen in the Heard Museum's Permanent Collection. Her work has been exhibited at American Craft Museum, New York, NY, Heard Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The White House, Washington, D.C. She has been collected in many private and public collections.


Roxanne is the granddaughter of Rose Naranjo, niece of Dr. Tessie Naranjo, Professor Tito Naranjo, potter Jody Folwell, sculptors Michael Naranjo and Nora Naranjo-Morse and potters Dolly Naranjo and Edna Romero. She is the cousin of potters Jody Naranjo, Susan Folwell, Polly Rose Folwell, Dusty Naranjo and Forrest Naranjo.


[edit] Awards

  • 2004 - Auditorium Wall Sculpture Commission, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • 2004 - Santa Fe Indian Market Poster Artist
  • 2000 - Best of Division, Best of Class, Sculpture & Judges’ Choice Award, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market
  • 1999 - Best of Classification, Sculpture, Best of Division, Bronze and Other Metals , First Place, Bronze, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1998 - First Place, Bronze, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1997 - Featured Artist, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market
  • 1997 - First Place, Single figures Category, Non-Traditional Pottery Division, First Place, Bronze, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1996 - First Place, Single figures Category, Non-Traditional Pottery Division, Third Place, Ceramic Category, Sculpture, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1995 - First Place, Single figures Category, Non-Traditional Pottery Division, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1994 - Wheelwright Museum and Joseph Block Sculpture Award & First Place, Single figures Category, Non-Traditional Pottery Division, Santa Fe Indian Market
  • 1986 - Bob Davis Memorial Award - awarded to the most promising artist at Indian Market & Four 1st Place Awards-Pottery and Sculpture Classifications
  • 1980 - Joy Levine Art Scholarship Award, Santa Fe, NM


[edit] References

January/February 2003 cover of Native Peoples magazine features Roxanne Swentzell

Portrait in Santa Clara Portraits, Neil Chapman, Avanyu Passage West By Southwest, 1999.

Portrait in Pueblo Artists: Portraits, Toba Pato Tucker, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, Darryl Babe Wilson, Lois Crozier-Hogle, Jay Leibold (editors), University of Texas Press, 1997.

Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas, Phoebe Farris, Greenwood Press, 1999.

Pottery by American Indian Women: The Legacy of Generations, Susan Peterson, Abbeville Press, 1997.

Clay people: Pueblo Indian figurative traditions, Jonathan Batkin, CWheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 1999.

Talking With the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery, Stephen Trimble, School of American Research Press, 1988.

Native North American Art, Janet Catherine Berlo & Ruth B. Phillips, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Contemporary Ceramics, Susan Peterson, Watson-Guptill, 2000.

Roxanne Swentzell: Extra-ordinary People, Gussie Fauntleroy, New Mexico Magazine, 2002.

Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Moira Vincentelli, Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Born of Clay: Ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian, 2005.

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