Evelyn Cheromiah Family and Teaching Tree

Disclaimer: This "family tree" is a best effort on our part to determine who the potters are in this group and arrange them in a generational order. The general information available is questionable so we have tried to show each of these diagrams to living members of each family to get their input and approval, too. This diagram is subject to change should we get better info.

Evelyn worked with Nancy Winslow, an Anglo woman from Albuquerque, to set up what became the 1973 Laguna Arts and Crafts Project. At that time, only Evelyn and a couple potters in the village of Mesita were still making Laguna pottery. Those women were teaching their daughters, too, but it was clearly a dying art. Evelyn and Nancy secured enough funding for Evelyn to teach two 4-month sessions of pottery making classes. Both groups were filled to overflowing.

Evelyn Cheromiah (1928-2013)
  • Josephita Cheromiah
    • Elton Cheromiah (1975- )
  • Lee Ann Cheromiah (1954- )
    • Brooke Cheromiah
  • Mary Cheromiah Victorino (c. 1950s- )
  • Wendy Cheromiah Kowemy
    • Wendell Kowemy (1972- )
  • Calvin Analla Sr. & Velma Analla
    • Calvin Analla Jr. (1958- )
Her other students:
  • Elsie Chereposy
  • Marie Kasero
    • Robert Kasero Sr. & Paula Estevan (Acoma)
  • Mabel Poncho (c. 1920s- )
    • Sue Tapia (1945- ) & Tom Tapia (1946-2015, San Juan)
      • Matt Valencia
      • Patrick Valencia
  • Bertha Riley (Evelyn's niece) & Stuart Riley Sr. (Navajo)
    • Stuart Riley Jr.

Some of the above info is drawn from Southern Pueblo Pottery, 2000 Artist Biographies, by Gregory Schaaf, © 2002, Center for Indigenous Arts & Studies. Other info is derived from personal contacts with family members and through interminable searches of the Internet and cross-examination of the data found.

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