Maria Martinez - Antonietta Capone

 Maria Martinez was a world renowned potter of San Ildefonso Pueblo, she lived from 1884 to 1980. She was known for making black on black pottery. She learned how to make pottery from her aunt, Tia Nicolasa. She discovered that smothering a cool fire with dried cow manure trapped the smoke, and that by using a special type of paint on top of a burnished surface in combination with trapping the smoke and the low temperature of the fire resulted in turning a red clay pot black, She made pottery but did not paint the pots, her husband Julian would be the painter. Personally I find her dark pottery to be my favorite out of all the potters we learned about in this course.