Artist Info
Eliza Naranjo Morse
Eliza Naranjo Morse, an artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, was named the 2007 Rollin and Mary Ella King Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.
Eliza has been immersed in artistic expression from the start: Her mother, grandmother, and much of her extended family are renowned ceramic artists, and she grew up surrounded by a tradition of creating pottery. Always comfortable with the art-making process, Eliza became interested at a young age in developing her ability to recreate on paper the world around her. She studied figure drawing at Parsons School of Design, figure drawing and painting at the Institute for American Indian Arts, and ultimately graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in art. Eliza has recently merged the work done based on her “western education” with the artistic traditions that she grew up with. “As a pueblo person who comes from a family of clay,” she says, “allowing these aspects of myself to interact resulted in drawings that better describe my perspective.”
Eliza’s work has been shown at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, the Center for Contemporary Arts and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe.
