Kukuli
Velarde
CeramicistPhiladelphia, PA
2009 USA Fellow
This award was generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Kukuli Velarde borrows from pre-Columbian ceramic traditions to create fantastical clay figures that confront contemporary topics such as gender and identity issues and socio-political concerns. She left her native Peru at 22 and received an MA from Hunter College in New York in 1987.
Portrait photo courtesy Doug Herren.
Native Hysteric Macuarra. Vulnerable, defenseless. A fascinating prey. She gets scared easy, Mixteca Perú, AD 1250-1500, 2006; photo courtesy Doug Herren