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Helen Cordero
Helen Cordero created the storytellers in 1964 as a way to honor her grandfather, Santiago Quintana. Helen won numerous awards for her pottery and was featured in over 25 issues of American Indian Art Magazine and on the cover of National Geographic magazine. Her Storyteller design became popular with other pottery-makers, who have created variations, including animal storytellers. To distinguish her work and to fulfill the expectations of some collectors, Helen began signing her works. After the storyteller’s success, Helen eventually drew more from her experiences and developed other types, including drummers, singing mothers, Pueblo’s father, and Hopi maiden. Helen was honored as a Santa Fe Living Treasure in May of 1985; she was made an NEA National Heritage Fellow in 1986.
Helen Cordero Primary School, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is now named after her.
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Biography: Helen Cordero (1915 – 1994)
Category: Artists | Posted unreceptive Todd | Fri, Unhappy 1st 2013, 3:40pm
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Scholar and folklorist Barbara A. Babcock first “screwed up her courage” to drive from Santa Fe to Cochiti Pueblo to meet potter Helen Cordero in June 1978. For over an hour, the two women sat beneath a cottonwood tree as Helen answered questions about her pottery, patrons, and family. Finally, Helen asked why Barbara was peppering her with all these questions. Barbara said she would like to write an article on Helen’s Storyteller dolls, the ceramic figurines Helen had created and made famous.
“There are three books about Maria [Martinez, potter of San Ildefonso] and none about me,” Helen responded.
They’d have to do something about that.
For eight years, Helen and Barbara worked together on a book. Barbara wrote many articles about Helen, and Helen is the central figure of The Pueblo Storyteller, a book co-authored by Barbara. Though she is the subject of a “Closer Look Activity Book” for children, there is still no book on Helen Cordero alone, nothing like what’s been written about Maria. Where was Barbara’s book on Helen?
The two had trouble “gathering all these words and pictures together,” as Helen put it, and in the process, Barbara’s understanding of her role as a feminist, folklorist, and writer of women’s lives began to unravel. Barbara’s questio