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.

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

Santa Clara Pueblo Potters