Visiting Artist Scholar Designer Talk with Virgil Ortiz
Channel: Center for Visual Art MSU Denver
Date: 2023-04-20

Virgil Ortiz is a Pueblo artist known for his pottery and fashion design from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. Ortiz makes a variety of pottery including traditional Cochiti figurative pottery, experimental figurative pottery, and traditional vessels. For nearly two decades Ortiz has told the story of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt through his artwork, simultaneously joining traditional pottery forms with sci-fi fantasy. His material choices and techniques draw from the past, while his imagery is both ultramodern and futuristic.