Nathan Youngblood reigns supreme in the modern world of Pueblo Pottery. He was given a “life with the clay” from his grandparents Margaret and Alcario Tafoya, as well as his mother, Mela Youngblood, all leaders of the Santa Clara Pueblo renaissance. His upbringing was steeped in traditions, stories and symbols of his rich cultural inheritance.

And then there is C.S. Tarpley, once referred to as “a wild child from Santa Fe” who found the medium of blowing glass, and became the precocious new artist adept in a very difficult process in glass art: electroformed blown glass. The intersection of these two artists from wholly different but parallel universes has resulted in a stunning new interpretation of Native American iconography and aesthetics.

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