Dextra Quotskuyva Explained

Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo
Birth Date:6 September 1928
Birth Place:Polacca, Arizona, U.S.
Field:Potter and artist
Training:Great-granddaughter of Hopi–Tewa potter Nampeyo
Awards:Proclaimed an "Arizona Living Treasure," 1994; Arizona State Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998

Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo (September 6, 1928 – February 2019) was a Native American potter and artist. She was in the fifth generation of a distinguished ancestral line of Hopi potters.

In 1994 Dextra Quotskuyva was proclaimed an "Arizona Living Treasure," and in 1998 she received the first Arizona State Museum Lifetime Achievement Award.[1] In 2001, the Wheelwright Museum organized a 30-year retrospective exhibition of Quotskuyva's pottery,[2] and in 2004, she received the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Lifetime Achievement award.[3]

Personal life

Quotskuyva was the great-granddaughter of Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo of Hano, who revived Sikyátki style pottery, descending through her eldest daughter, Annie Healing. Dextra is the daughter of Rachel Namingha (1903–1985), and sister of Priscilla Namingha, who are other notable Hopi-Tewa potters.[4] Her daughter, Hisi Nampeyo is also a potter, and her son, Dan Namingha, is painter and sculptor.[5] Her husband, Edwin Quotskuyva, was a veteran and a Hopi tribal leader.

Quotskuyva died in February 2019, at the age of 90.[6] [7]

Work

Dextra began her artistic career in 1967, following Nampeyo's rich heritage rooted in Sikyatki decorations. At first, following the advice of her mother to stay true to the old styles, Dextra's design repertoire was limited to traditional Nampeyo migration and bird designs. After her mother died in 1985, Dextra felt at greater liberty to express her personal creativity. She was the first Nampeyo potter to produce a commodity for public consumption.[8]

Quotskuyva experiments with the traditional materials usually used for pottery, gathering clay from different sources from her reservation and creating variations on the characteristic orange, tan, and brown hues of Hopi bonfire pots.[9] For the decorations, she uses bee-weed plant for the black and native clay slips for the red.[10]

In describing her way of creating pottery, she said: "One day my pottery calls for me, and then I know this is the day I must do it".

Noted American Indian art dealer and collector, Martha Hopkins Lanman Struever, authored a book about Dextra entitled "Painted Perfection", exploring a collection of her works which were exhibited at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.[11]

See also

Selected public collections

References

Pecina, Ron and Pecina, Bob. Hopi Kachinas: History, Legends, and Art. Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013. ; p. 161

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.holmes.anthropology.museum/southwestpottery/dextraquotskuyva.html Dextra Quotskuyva
  2. Web site: 2001 . Painted Perfection: The Pottery of Dextra Quotskuyva . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210801182922/https://wheelwright.org/exhibitions/painted-perfection-the-pottery-of-dextra-quotskuyva/ . 1 August 2021 . 4 February 2023 . Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
  3. Web site: 2 June 2004 . SWAIA Announces 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230205030356/https://ictnews.org/archive/swaia-announces-2004-lifetime-achievement-award-winners . 5 February 2023 . 4 February 2023 . ICT.
  4. Book: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery. 1978. University of New Mexico Press. 0826303889. 6th. Albuquerque. 18. Internet Archive.
  5. Web site: 2007 . Dan and Arlo Namingha - A Fascination with Dualities . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230205031209/https://musnaz.org/dan-and-arlo-namingha-%E2%94%80-a-fascination-with-dualities/ . 5 February 2023 . 4 February 2023 . . en-US.
  6. Web site: Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo, Hopi-Tewa Potter . Adobe Gallery . 10 January 2024.
  7. Web site: Quotskuyva, Dextra Nampeyo (1928–2019) . King Galleries . 10 January 2024.
  8. Web site: Dittemore . Diane . August 2001 . The Nampeyo Legacy: A Family of Hopi-Tewa Potters . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210506180030/https://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/feature-articles/the_nampeyo_legacy . 6 May 2021 . 4 February 2023 . . en-US.
  9. Book: Pottery by American Indian women : the legacy of generations ; [exhibition itinerary: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1997 – January 11, 1998 ; The Heard Museum, Phoenix, February 18, 1998 – April 18, 1998]. Susan.. Peterson. National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.). 1998-01-01. Abbeville Press. 0789203537. 614021872.
  10. Web site: Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220815045400/https://kinggalleries.com/brand/quotskuyva-dextra-nampeyo/ . 15 August 2022 . 4 March 2017 . King Galleries . en-US.
  11. Book: Painted Perfection: The Pottery of Dextra Quotskuyva . Struever, Martha Hopkins . Jonathan Batkin . 1–123 . Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico . 2001 . October 23, 2021 .
  12. Web site: hopi2002-4-24. www.holmes.anthropology.museum. 2018-03-08. 2018-06-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20180602010642/http://www.holmes.anthropology.museum/southwestpottery/hopi2002-4-24.html. dead.
  13. Web site: Awatovi Birds, 1990 - Dextra Quotskuyva . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221105081204/https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4236/awatovi-birds-dextra-quotskuyva . 5 November 2022 . 8 March 2018 . Minneapolis Institute of Art.
  14. Web site: Jar – Dextra Nampeyo (Quotskuyva) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180309191244/http://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/55920/jar;jsessionid=BACEB864708BACA7C53D7A35AF813A5B?ctx=55b0646f-7f72-416e-afc8-09c9643787cf&idx=0 . 9 March 2018 . 8 March 2018 . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art . en.
  15. Web site: Jar – Dextra Nampeyo (Quotskuyva) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180309191246/http://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/56995/jar;jsessionid=BACEB864708BACA7C53D7A35AF813A5B?ctx=55b0646f-7f72-416e-afc8-09c9643787cf&idx=1 . 9 March 2018 . 8 March 2018 . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art . en.
  16. Web site: National Museum of the American Indian : Item Detail. www.nmai.si.edu. en. 2018-03-08.
  17. Web site: Seed jar - circa 1980 by Dextra Quotskuyva . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180309054001/http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=396815&catids=3&partytxt=dextra&src=1-2 . 9 March 2018 . 8 March 2018 . . . en.
  18. Book: Gallery Family Guide: Beyond Expressions in Clay - William C. and Evelyn M. Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art . Museum of Texas Tech University . 4 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210213004109/https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/exhibitions/downloads/davies-gallery-guide.pdf . 13 February 2021 . live.

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