Monica Naranjo
Santa Clara
Monica Naranjo was born into Santa Clara Pueblo in 1975. The sister of Kevin Naranjo, she also learned the traditional way to make pottery from their mother, Geri Naranjo. Like her mother, Monica specializes in black and sienna miniatures with very fine traditional sgraffito decorations.
Monica is still making her trademark miniature black jars and seed pots (sometimes with sienna rims and spots) with fine sgraffito avanyu, feather and geometric designs. She usually signs her pieces: Monica Naranjo Santa Clara Pueblo.
Monica began earning ribbons for her work while she was still a teenager:
- 1990 - Third Place, ages 13-18, burnished black or red jar, Santa Fe Indian Market
- 1991 - Second Place, ages 13-18, animal figure, Santa Fe Indian Market
- 1992 - Second Place, ages 13-18, sgraffito, Santa Fe Indian Market
- Second Place, burnished black or red jar, Santa Fe Indian Market
- Second Place, miniature, Santa Fe Indian Market - 1993 - First Place, ages 18 & under, miniature, Santa Fe Indian Market
- Second Place, animal figure, Santa Fe Indian Market - 1998 - First Place, miniature, sgraffito black, Santa Fe Indian Market
- Third Place, miniature, sgraffito, all other, Santa Fe Indian Market
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