Nora Naranjo-Morse
About the Artist
Chiaroscuro currently has no available works from Naranjo-Morse, but hopes to present new works in 2012.
Honored as the Santa Fe Rotary Foundation's 2009 Distinguished Artist of the Year, Nora Naranjo-Morse has earned a national reputation as a contemporary artist whose work examines the changing social landscape of Native life. She is part of a well-known extended family of Santa Clara Pueblo potters whose matriarach was Rose Naranjo.
Naranjo-Morse began her career working with clay but has expanded her repertoitre to include other sculptural materials, painting, poetry and most recently video and film. Her work has been exhibited in numorous museums across the country including the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC) and the Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ).