Martha Arquero Captain America Clay Sculpture Museum of International Folk Art whose recorded history stretches considerably

whose recorded history stretches considerably longer than that of the United States

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Josef Diaz is the curator of the Southwest and Mexican Colonial Art and History Collections at the New Mexico History Museum

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Martha Arquero Captain America Clay Sculpture Museum of International Folk Art whose recorded history stretches considerablyMartha Arquero was born in 1944 into the Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. She has been making pottery sculptures since the late 1960s, inspired to continue the family tradition of clay sculpting by her Mother, Damacia Cordero. She uses all natural pigments to hand coil her sculptures, gathering the clay from the hills nearby her home. Martha makes a variety of pottery, from traditional storytellers and nativity scenes to playful characters and comic book