Biography of:
Nora Naranjo-Morse
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Nora Naranjo-Morse is a contemporary Tewa artist, poet and a filmmaker. She has worked with clay since she was a child. As an artist, she continues to push the boundaries of her Pueblo clay with her figures and structures. It was with the encouragement and guidance of her brother Michael, a well-known bronze sculptor that she also started to work with bronze.
Nora Naranjo-Morse earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. Most recently the winner of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Insitution, outdoor sculpture design competition. Her sculpture "Always Becoming" will be featured on the museum grounds on the Washington D.C. mall. Her work can be found in the collections of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz., the Minnesota Institute of Art in Minneapolis and the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. She has been featured in group and solo exhibitions at the White House, Portland Art Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M.
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HEARD MUSEUM
