Biography of:
Eliza Naranjo-Morse
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Eliza Naranjo Morse has been immersed in arts from the beginning, as much of her maternal family are well known and highly respected ceramic artists, she grew up surrounded by a tradition of creating beautiful pottery.
Naranjo Morse’s first experience with art, and the creative process, began as a young girl growing up in New Mexico. She spent much of her time helping her family collect and sift clay near Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, preparing the material for use in both sculpture and architecture. Always comfortable with the art-making process, at a young age she began developing her ability to recreate on paper the world around her. She studied drawing at Parsons School of Design and at the Institute for American Indian Arts, and ultimately graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in art in 2003.
Upon returning to Santa Fe, she began to refine her artistic practice, merging her interests in drawing and clay. Recently Naranjo Morse has been drawing on raw canvas with all organic materials, including beetroot, tea, micaceous clay, and volcanic ash collected in New Mexico.
Eliza’s work has been shown at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, SITE Santa Fe, 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. Naranjo Morse was also named the 2007 Rollin and Mary Ella King Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.
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HEARD MUSEUM
