Clarence Cruz is known for his creative micaceous pottery from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.  This large jar is coil built and it has a high shoulder and a short neck. The jar was reduction-fired black.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Khuu Khaayay Ohkay Owingeh”.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

“Clarence Cruz is Tewa from Ohkay Owingeh, formerly known as San Juan Pueblo, and a graduate of the University of New Mexico, with a BFA and MFA in Art Studio, and a minor in Museum Studies through an Internship at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.  As a potter and instructor, he works with raw materials that he gathers from different sites on public lands. These materials consist of clays, slips, mineral pigments, volcanic ash, and Rocky mountain bee weed used for paint (black) or as a binder. His pottery firings are outside firings, which are: reduction firing, oxidation firing, and open firing (fire clouds)”