Collection Info
Andres Galvan (Henate) Collection
In Zia Pueblo, located about 37 miles north of Albuquerque, lived an important Zia Pueblo pottery painter named Andres Galvan, also known as Henate. In the historic Zia Pueblo tradition, women formed the pottery; men painted it. Henate often worked with his wife, Margaret, on pottery until her passing in the early 1970s. Henate then had no pottery to paint. This, however, did not mean he stopped creating.
Over the course of his career, Henate, also known as Andres Galvan, engaged his creative production in painting Pueblo pottery designs—both historic and of his own creation—on paper in addition to pottery. In 1979 and 1980, 182 of these works on paper were acquired by the IARC. In 2009, long after the gender restrictions around pottery had faded, IARC’s Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow Ulysses Reid began putting his grandfather’s designs back onto pottery, the way they were meant to exist.
