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Lonnie Vigil

Lonnie Vigil (Born 1949) is active/lives in New Mexico.  Lonnie Vigil is known for Micaceous Indian pottery.

A full-time, self-taught potter since the 1980s, Lonnie Vigil is a native of Nambe Pueblo where he grew up "close to the earth" in a family whose roots went back for generations with some of the members making a living by raising cattle.

After high school, Lonnie Vigil went to Denver where he earned a junior accounting degree, having followed a path to fulfill his mother's advice to become a business person. On a scholarship, he entered the business administration program at Eastern New Mexico University, took a job as a loan officer at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, and then was promoted to a similar job at a national level in Washington DC.

However, a defining moment was attending a Native American gathering at the Kennedy Center, and in 1982, he headed back to Nambe to get in touch with his own culture and to pursue his creative instincts. His gathering of "glittery mica-studded clay" led to his commitment to that material for his signature micaceous potter   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1886 characters.]  Artist bio

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