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Every piece of pottery tells a story.

Worldwide, Indigenous cultures use pottery for similar purposes. Early artisans created pieces for storing grain or gathering. Other ancient potters created works for ceremonies. Still others worked in clay solely for aesthetics. None of these intentions have changed; potters still create works for storage, ceremony and art.

Santa Fe鈥檚 Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts is showing 鈥淪tories Within,鈥� a collection of 18 pieces from the center鈥檚 collection.

Some of the potters used traditional approaches such as the coil method to create their work. Others combine the traditional with contemporary techniques.

鈥淎 lot of them were pieces that have been hidden in our collection,鈥� said curator Alex Pe帽a. 鈥淚t is a lot of material 鈥� over 2,500 works from all over the world.鈥�

Instead, he narrowed down the focus to North America, ranging from New Mexico to Oklahoma.

Chickasaw artist Joanna Underwood Blackburn employs the Japanese raku method traditionally used in tea ceremonies. Raku is-hand-modeled pottery fired at a low temperature and rapidly cooled.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 one of my favorite pieces because it highlights a different culture鈥檚 influences,鈥� Pe帽a said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e still making it their own.

鈥淪he鈥檚 not traditional,鈥� he continued. 鈥淪he graduated from IAIA (the Institute of American Indian Arts), but she was by no means a Southwestern artist. The lip is kind of serrated. It appeared she did not have a perfectionist viewpoint.鈥�

鈥淔light of the Pterodactyls鈥� features soaring dinosaurs around the bowl. Andrew Pacheco of Kewa Pueblo won a youth award for the piece at the Santa Fe Indian Market.

鈥淗e was a high school student,鈥� Pe帽a said. 鈥淚 like dinosaurs. It鈥檚 very multi-level in all the materials he used. If you look at it from certain angles, it鈥檚 definitely not perfect. There鈥檚 various slips on the piece.鈥�

Pacheco used red slip on both the inside and outside of the pot, then added a white slip beneath the outside.

鈥淗e used Rocky Mountain beeweed for the pterodactyls,鈥� Pe帽a said. 鈥淭he clay is actually micaceous clay.鈥�

Alice Cling used a traditional Din茅 olla from clay, stone-burnished slip and covered it in pi帽on pitch.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e more functional in form; it seals it,鈥� Pe帽a said.

Laguna Pueblo potter Gladys Paquin created a wave pattern on her work using natural pigments.

鈥淭hey all feature some similarity in either function or form,鈥� Pe帽a said. 鈥淪ome of them could have been for a traditional bowl or just aesthetics. Each one of them creates a story.鈥�

The former director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, Ralph T. Coeplayed a central role in the revival of interest in Native American art, from the ancient to the modern. He amassed a collection of about 2,500 pieces, including sculpture, baskets, jewelry and moccasins.

As a 1955 art student, he was transfixed by a small Northwest coast totem pole that he spotted in a shop on Manhattan鈥檚 Lexington Avenue. It was the start of a 55-year fascination that he shared through major exhibitions he curated, his writings and eventually his donations.

Telling the 'Stories Within': Exhibit showcases 18 'hidden' pieces at the Coe Center

To gather the objects, Coe roamed from reservation to reservation in the 近距离内射合集 States and Canada, learning about their symbolism and the techniques of their artisans.

When Coe died in 2010, he left some pieces to New York鈥檚 Metropolitan Museum of Art; the rest went to his namesake Coe Center. He lived in Santa Fe.