ABOVE: Joshua Madalena painting a pot using yucca. RIGHT: High-temperature pit firing.


“That’s one of the things that really kept


me going. It’s not something that we stopped. It was not our choice. Someone else forced us to stop doing this art.” He continues, “Back in history it wasn’t


just a form of art, it was a way of life. We used the pottery for storage of our food and for cooking purposes. It was an important issue for me to bring it back and I knew I was very close. I imagined that if I could bring back this art form that it could be utilized as part of our traditional way of life again.” But Madalena also wants to bring the art


form to the broader mainstream culture, as a means of furthering Jemez preservation. “I wanted to make it available for public purchase


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