About the Artist

(Born circa 1950) Lucy Leupp McKelvey, a Navajo potter, first began learning pottery when she was in college in 1973.

Though she began by using ceramic clays and electric kilns, she soon convered to using clays collected from Native lands in Arizona and oak-fuled open air firings.  She is well known for her yei figure designs and large, low vessls with flat, wide shoulders.