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Robert Marcus’s glass work has grown out of the traditional pottery-making he learned from his mother and grandmother in Ohkay Owingeh. Drawing on the forms and designs of Ohkay Owingeh pottery, Marcus experiments with glassmaking techniques. The color, transparency, and texture he achieves are unique to the medium of glass—which, when carved, adds multiple layers of complexity to Marcus’s reinterpretation of Pueblo stylistic traditions.

From the 2022 exhibition Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design, curated by Dillen Peace '19, Native American Art Intern and Sháńdíín Brown '20, Native American Art Intern 

Course History

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2022

Writing Program 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Winter 2023

Writing Program 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Winter 2023

Exhibition History

Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22, 2022-March 12, 2023.

Publication History

Beth Michelle Schrift, Pueblo Pottery of the Churchill Collection at the Turn of the Century: A Representation of Changing Times, 2004, pp. 1-102, ill. p. 46, fig. 8.

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico, 1903-1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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