Interconnected

A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK INTO HOW NAMPEYO’S SIKYATKI REVIVAL INSPIRED THE CAREERS OF MARIA AND JULIAN MARTINEZ.

Most contemporary Indian art collectors and curators are aware of the successful Pueblo pottery careers of Nampeyo, who created the Sikyatki Revival Art Movement at Hopi in the mid-1880s, and the later career of Maria Martinez and her husband Julian at San Ildefonso Pueblo. Yet most collectors view Nampeyo’s and the Martinezes’ careers as unrelated. After all, Nampeyo lived at remote Hopi in Arizona and Maria lived much later in New Mexico at San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Santa Fe.