Rose often took Dora on workshop tours, and Dora took her own pots along, too. Dora says that every year at the Indian Market in Santa Fe, she gets some kind of ribbon, and that in 1988 and 1991 she won the prestigious Best in Traditional Pottery award. Now Dora travels all over the country for shows and demonstrations and entertains workshop groups at her home on the pueblo. I love to carve. I do some new things, but I will never get away from carving altogether.
Some artists do crazy things.
Jar with two spouts and turquoise inlay, 1980. By Dora Tse-pe. The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Photograph by Craig Smith. She also adds turquoise and coral to accent her deep carving technique or to mark a change of clay color on a pot.