Featured Signed Acoma Pot

Not sure if the first initial is an O or a D...

 

Looks like D.
There is a Pueblo potter named Dorothy Trujillo, but she is Laguna/Jemez, living in Cochiti.

If you can't find either D. or O. Trujillo from Acoma, you can always ask here:
http://www.acomaskycity.org/home.html?pgid=1

 

Thanks Any

 

This is the decorated green-ware sold in the Acoma gas station (and I am sure elsewhere). It is not the traditional hand coiled pottery from Acoma. If done by an Acoma native, it is still legitimately Acoma pottery. It is just not as expensive or collectible as the real deal. It is tourist/mass market pottery for the uninformed.

 

That first image looks like Kokopelli.

 

It is. Kokopelli is everywhere in the SW now. It seems to be what people expect, or are expected to expect.

 

Agree completely. Decorated greenware, and not very well done. You can still see the mold mark on the bottom.

Trujillo isn't a surname generally associated with Acoma. Gregory Schaaf lists only 3 Acoma potters named Trujillo in Southern Pueblo Pottery, 2000 Artist Biographies.

Roberta Trujillo is listed as active from 1987 to the present, and as the only one of those 3 making ceramic polychrome bowls and jars. "Ceramic" being the key word, used by Acoma potters to describe painted greenware pottery, as opposed to their "potteries" that are all hand-coiled and made traditionally. Possibly this was made by a son or daughter. I'm not personally familiar with the signature or the potter.

 

Thanks Everyone!

 

Here's a D. Trujillo, no first name. That pink is certainly distinctive.