Vera Chino Ely (born June 27, 1943) is a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. She is the youngest daughter of Marie Z. Chino, who was also a potter. Vera learned from her mother.[1]

In the late 1970s she worked with her mother doing fine-line painting on some of her pots. In 1979, she participated in the "One Space: Three Visions" exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. A collection of her works can be seen at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]

Vera's sisters, Carrie Charlie (b. 1925), Rose Garcia (b. 1928), and Grace Chino (c.1929–1994), are all award-winning Acoma potters.

Further reading

  • Dillingham, Rick - Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. 1994.
  • Schaaf, Gregory - Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2,000 Artist Biographies. 2002.

References

  1. Dillingham, Rick (1994). Fourteen families in Pueblo pottery. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. p. 82. ISBN 0826314988.
  2. Schrader, Julie Ann. (2005) "The Morgan collection of Southwest pottery website: research and photography: a project" (MA Thesis). Wichita State University. https://soar.wichita.edu//handle/10057/128
  • Dittert, Alfred E; Fred Plog (1980). Generations in Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press in cooperation with the American Federation of the Arts. ISBN 0873582713.


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