Acoma Pottery is made from natural clays, minerals, and plants found within their homeland. Many inherit family clay beds where they pray and sing songs to Mother Earth.

Some collect many different types and colors of clay for paints and slips. To make their pottery strong, they mix ground pottery shards or volcanic ash and water into the finely screened, dry powdered clay. Acoma potters have made over a dozen main styles of pottery. The traditional style was orange and black-on-white. Their favorite shape was a water jar called an olla.

Acoma Pueblo, also called Sky City, is over 1,000 years old, one of the oldest living

communities on Earth. Located about 50 miles west of Albuquerque, their quarter of a million acre territory features beautiful mesas, deep valleys, and rolling hills.