Four Voices from the Rose Williams Legacy

In the low cedar hills north of Shonto Trading Post, four women still shape the earth the way their mother taught them: by hand, without a wheel, and always with a prayer.

Susie Crank (B. 1966), Alice Cling (B.1946), Lorraine “Rain” Williams (1955-2024), and Sue Ann Williams are all accomplished Navajo (Diné) potters from the Shonto/Cow Springs area of the Navajo Nation. They share a close familial connection through the renowned matriarch of modern Navajo pottery, Rose Williams (1915–2015), the quiet revolutionary who pulled Navajo pottery back from near extinction in the 1970s.