The grandson of renowned Kiowa medicine man and scout James Haungooah, Art Cody was born in Lawton, OK in April 1943. James Haungooah was also famous for his ledger drawings of life on the southern Great Plains. The name Haungooah means "silverhorn," or "sunlight reflecting off a buffalo horn" in the Kiowa language.

Art met Martha Suazo in Dallas where she was attending school and he was stationed at Fort Hood. They got married in 1972 and, following Puebloan tradition, he moved to her home at Santa Clara Pueblo. They began making pottery together and their son Dean was born that same year.

Art went to school at Cameron College in Lawton, OK, the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, graduating from IAIA with an Associate of Fine Arts degree. He learned pottery making, silversmithing, jewelry making, painting, stone sculpture and bronze making.

Born in 1947, Martha Suazo was a daughter of Joe and Santanita Suazo, both acclaimed potters from Santa Clara. Martha learned how to make pottery from her mother and she taught the basics to Art. Usually, when they were working together, Martha would make the piece, Art would sand it, Martha would polish it, then Art would fire it and do the sgraffito work, carving and etching his designs into the surface of the piece. Over time he graduated to adding inset stones, silver, pipestone, mother-of-pearl, precious stones, beaded medallions and strands of heishe beads, multiple slip colors and two-tone firings.

Art and Martha's pottery was a mix of traditional and contemporary styles and designs and they were an immediate sensation in the Native American pottery world. They offered a unique fusion of Santa Clara and Kiowa designs, usually on miniature pieces. They did make a few larger pieces but as Art once said, "I can make twice the amount of money by making miniatures. There's a bigger demand for miniatures, and they're not that time consuming, because there's a smaller area to work with. The larger pieces you put more time into it, and then if they do sell you've got to sit back and wait for a buyer to come in."

Art and Martha took part in exhibits like Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Guild and Indian Art Fair, Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery and a 1979 tour in Europe put together by Pierre Cardin.

Sadly, in 1981 Martha was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning while she was walking around at Puye Cliff Dwellings (an ancestral home of the Santa Clara people). In 1983, Art married Brenda Tafoya (sister of Ken Tafoya, Ray Tafoya and Paul Speckled Rock). In September 1985, Art, Brenda and their infant son Scotti died in a single-vehicle car accident.

Art and Martha's work is on display in museums such as the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, the Denver Art Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, the Museum of Indian Art and Culture in Santa Fe, NM, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Most of their pieces were signed by Art alone, usually with "Haungooah" somewhere in the name. In the early 1980s he signed a few pieces using his initials and the outline of a fish. There are a very few pieces signed by both Art and Martha and even fewer pieces signed by Martha alone (and all seem to have been miniatures). Their son, Dean Haungooah, carries on today making the shapes and designs made popular by his parents.

Some of the Awards Art and Martha Earned

• 1971 - First Place, Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair & Market
• 1976 - First Place, Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair & Market
• 1977 - Second Place for a pottery lamp, Santa Fe Indian Market
  - Second Place for a miniature bowl, Santa Fe Indian Market
• 1978 - Third Place for a miniature sgraffito pot, Santa Fe Indian Market
• 1979 - Best of Division, First Place for a sgraffito miniature jar, Santa Fe Indian Market
  - 3rd Place for a sgraffito seed pot, Santa Fe Indian Market
• 1980 - Second Place for a miniature sgraffito jar, Santa Fe Indian Market
• 1983 - Second & Third Place for non-traditional, new forms, innovations, Santa Fe Indian Market