Adobe Gallery Blog

Anticipation around here is growing and on August 7th, 2017, the Hopi show will hit the shelves of Adobe Gallery. Ever since Al decided we were going to have a Hopi show, there seems to have been an uncanny series of coincidences. People we have never met somehow have found their way to us with Hopi treasures they no longer want. People we haven't heard from in years have contacted us looking for "that perfect Hopi pot" to complete their collection. Mark Tahbo has been on a creative streak, each piece he sends us is more and more amazing. Mark also shared some of the work of his cousin, Debbie Clashin.

For my part, I have gone back to reading about Hopi, I am fascinated by the stories of early visitors to Hopi and their interactions with Hopi potters. First is Thomas Keam. What possessed a young Englishman to leave his home, sail around the world, join the US Army and end up in a small canyon in Arizona? Arizona wasn't even a state when he arrived, the railroad was almost 10 years away. Yet, this young man learned two crazy difficult languages, Hopi and Navajo, married a Navajo woman and was responsible for the commercialization of Pueblo pottery. He was the starting point, in a way, in a long series of events that eventually leads to our show.

Here is a link to the show:

A Century of Hopi-Tewa Pottery: From Nampeyo of Hano to Mark Tahbo

(click here to view)