Tony Dallas {Hopi Tribe}
Height: 6 3/4" / Width: 5 3/4" / Children: 4
" Tony Dallas is a full blooded Native American Indian. He was born in 1956 into the Hopi Reservation. He married into the Cochiti pueblo in the early 1980's. He was inspired to learn the art of working with clay sculptures by observing hoe mother-in-law, Lucy R. Suina. He sparked interest in working with clay at age of 16.
Tony seriously began making pottery in 1982. He learned all the ancient traditional methods of constructing pottery and clay sculptures. Finally, he decided that he really enjoyed making storytellers and contemporary style of art. He stated, "I started to hand coil a regular storyteller. Then, I thought for a moment. Mud-heads and Koshare clowns also tell stories and they are so humorous to me. So I began experimenting with different styles of storytellers using my creative imagination to construct them". Tony's style is a finely painted contemporary flare on a traditional sculpture. He signs his art as: T.D. followed by a badger claw to denote his Clan origin. Tony is related to the lat Charles Loma.
Awards: 1999 New Mexico State Fair 3 rd. Place
Sante Fe Indian Market various years
Rio Grande Indian Market various years
New Mexico State Fair various years
Publications: The Pueblo Storytellers
Miniature Arts of the Southwest
Miniature Figures in Clay
Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery
Hopi-Tewa Pottery 500 Artist Biographies
Talking with the Clay "
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