This  Native American Designer is Honoring his Heritage Through Craft

MagazineThis  Native American Designer is Honoring his Heritage Through Craft Johnny Santiago Adao Ortiz-Concha works with clay from the surrounding land in his centuries-old adobe house. February 21, 2022This  Native American Designer is Honoring his Heritage Through Craft
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    Ortiz-Concha and his partner, Maida Branch, with milk cows on their property. Branch supports local makers through her platform Maida goods (maidagoods.com).

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    Native mushrooms, hops, plums, bear root, fetid marigold, and more dry in the sun, which preserves them for the colder months.

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    Ortiz-Concha plasters the walls of his 200-year-old adobe house using a traditional technique in which mud from the farm is mixed with wild grass to prevent cracking.

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    Hand-sheared from landrace churro sheep, wool is dyed using endemic materials like plum bark, goldenrod, cota, chokecherry, indigo, and cochineal.

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    Johnny Santiago Adao Ortiz-Concha with his ceramics. 


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