Tafoya, Jennifer and Chris Youngblood – “Trout” Small Bowl with 3 Trout
$ 2,700.00
This is a detailed, small collaborative piece by Christopher Youngblood and Jennifer Tafoya. It is a small bowl that is carved with three trout. Each trout is swimming around the bowl and each is fully polished. There is a Rainbow Trout, a Brook Trout, and a Brown Trout. After the bowl was fired, Jennifer etched the designs into the clay and then painted with clay slips for the various colors. They are VERY detailed and realistic in appearance. The rim and base of the bowl are carved with water designs and slipped with mica. They collaborative work has won them numerous awards over the past several years, including “Best of Pottery” at Santa Fe Indian Market in 2026. It is signed by both Chris and Jennifer.
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WOW! This is an exceptional collaborative piece by Christopher Youngblood and Jennifer Tafoya. It is a box that was made and carved by Chris. It was polished by both of them and then traditionally fired a deep black coloration. After the firing, Jennifer etched the designs into the clay. The box has five dinosaurs carved into the clay on the sides. There are two velociraptors, an allosaurus, a triceritops, and a parasaurolophus. They are each VERY detailed in design and if you look closely, you can even see the scales on them. This style of Jennifer’s work is VERY time consuming. The lid has a triceritops on one side and a stegosaurus on the other. Again, they are very detailed. All the clay colors are applied after the designs are etched into the clay. It is a very detailed and fully designed collaboration. The remainder of the piece is slipped with mica. It is signed by both Chris and Jennifer.
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Tafoya, Jennifer (b. 1977)
Jennifer Tafoya
Jennifer Tafoya is the daughter of Ray and Emily Tafoya. The use of realism in their imagery has revitalized the style of sgraffito pottery originated by Joseph Lonewolf in the 1970s. Jennifer has won numerous awards for her pottery and is featured in books such as "Talking with the Clay," "Crafted to Perfection," and "Breaking the Mold." Jennifer has also been featured in recent magazine articles in "Native Peoples Magazine" and "Southwest Art Magazine" and won "Best of Pottery" for a collaborative jar at the 2013 Heard Indian Market Guild. She has continued to be an award-winning potter at Santa Fe Indian Market's 'Best of Show 2023.' Jennifer uses the Native American traditional hand-coiled pottery methods, then shapes, polishes, and is traditionally fired before applying scraffito. She then paints natural ore colors and slips them into her designs. She collects and processes all of her pottery materials from natural sources.
Youngblood, Christopher (b. 1989)
Chris Youngblood
Chris Youngblood is Margaret Tafoya's great-grandson and Nancy Youngblood's son. His mother, Nancy, taught him to make pottery. He won the "Best of Class - Youth Award" at Santa Fe Indian Market and the prestigious "Best of Pottery" in 2014. In the 2010 Native People's Magazine, he was featured as one of the "Generation Next Emerging Potters" and recently featured in Native Art Magazine in 2016 as one of the "Three Potters Under 30" to watch. In addition, his "Best of Pottery" jar was featured in the book "Spoken Through Clay."
Chris Youngblood says that he focuses on each piece, taking the time to work on the shape and stone polish the surface to a high shine, often polishing it several times to get it right. Chris comes to the clay focused on expanding his illustrious family's technical and artistic boundaries. His manipulation of the clay surface through his technically inspired imagery expands the art in new directions.