Meeting My Hero, Jeri Redcorn

My Hero, Jeri Redcorn

After Robert Sharp (Executive Director of Publications at the Art Institute of Chicago) introduced me to the catalog for the AIC exhibition Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, I fell in love with the pottery of Jeri Redcorn. She is a contemporary native Caddoan artist who works in a traditional style. After researching materials, techniques, and forms, she experimented to recreate the old ways of making Caddoan Mississippian pottery. http://www.redcornpottery.com/about.html

It was a great honor to meet her and see her elegant work (along with works by other wonderful, contemporary artists) in person at the Gilcrease Museum show, New Masters of Old Traditions, curated by Bob Pickering. The show is in the new downtown Zarrow Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. June 7 – July 28, 2013