Myron Sarracino

Laguna
A black and white jar incorporating Tularosa and Mimbres designs

Born in January, 1967, to Joan and Mike Sarracino of Seama village at Laguna Pueblo, Myron has become one of the top award-winning potters from Laguna Pueblo. He's said when he was a child, he'd to watch his grandmother make ashtrays and small bowls out of clay, and fire them. Then he'd go with her to the village church where she sold them to the tourists. He made his first pieces on his own when he was about 12. He's said he learned from "every grandmother, lots of grandmothers," who would teach and show him but he really began learning the traditional methods of making pottery from Gladys Paquin while he was in his early teens. Gladys taught him to make thin-walled impeccable shapes and to paint exceptional designs. Working together they produced some of the finest polychrome pottery in the modern Laguna tradition.

Then in the 1990s Myron branched off from Gladys and he turned to creating pieces that harken back to the more ancient Mimbres and Tularosa shapes and designs. He's extensively studied those prehistoric designs and has developed some unique variations of some of them. The result: traditional hand-made pottery with an ancient look and contemporary refinements. His work is also well-known for his swirl designs, inspired by the migration trails of his ancestors.

Myron's collection of awards range from Honorable Mention to Best of Show from competitions at the New Mexico State Fair, Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonials and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.

His favorite designs include cloud patterns, rain, Tularosa spirals, bighorn sheep, swirls, checkerboard, feathers-in-a-row and frets. He says he used to get his inspiration from his grandparents, Thelma and Sandy Sarracino, and friends Gladys Paquin and Verna Soloman. While they have all passed, he still feels their presence around him, mixed in with that of his sisters and nieces.

Myron is the creator of the Laguna Pueblo Pottery Mug of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center's "Pueblo Pottery Mug" series.

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