2009 Daryle Lambert on Tony Jojola:
"I have shared with you about my love of Western Art that started with visiting the Eaton's Ranch in Wyoming [ www.eatonsranch.com ], however it has grown greatly from there. I have become very interested in everything to do with the Indian culture. After collecting several wonderful Western paintings by such artists as William Gollings and Ida McAfee, I began to notice other Indian memorabilia. There were the beaded gloves with the American flags on them, ceremonial beaded clothing, weapons and leather goods. The artistry and craftsmanship among the different tribes is astonishing.
From my experiences on the ranch, I became aware that at some level I was connecting to this culture. This is when I began taking trips to South Dakota with Colin Craig, who has become like a son to me. We have gone to the Lakota Sioux reservation together over 20 times and I believe they have accepted us into their families. There isn't anything like a pow wow or a sun dance to make you yearn for the days of old when people where free and roamed the open plains of the West.
However, many of the skills that the older members of the tribes possessed have been lost and I don't think that the young will ever recover them. However, there is a new group of artists emerging and I would like to introduce you to one of them. His name is Tony Jojola and he is becoming one of the true masters of art glass. He studied under Dale Chihuly and his work is getting great acclaim from all that view it.
Here is a short biography:
Tony Jojola is one of only a handful of Native American glass Blowers. Born on the Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico, Jojola began working as a potter at a young age. After enrolling at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, he was exposed to the art of glass blowing. Further training at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, led to a period of study at Pilchuck Glass School, where he served as studio assistant to Dale Chihuly, the acknowledged master of American Glass Art. With Chihuly's support, Jojola established the Hilltop Artists in Residence program at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. This program helps at-risk youth through learning the art of blowing glass. During the past year, Jojola was prominently featured in a traveling exhibition of Native American Artists working in glass organized by the Museum of Craft & Folk Art in San Francisco. The exhibition showed at a number of major west coast venues, including the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ.
This is another opportunity for you, as a member of the “Daryle Lambert's Antique and Collectible Club”, to run ahead of the pack. If you are able to find pieces of work by the likes of Novaro and Jojola, they will definitely fatten your bank accounts. I will continue to share names of top artists that few recognize. I suggest that you go to Yahoo and type in Tony Jojola and study his works, because if I asked 1000 people standing in line at a garage or house sale who he is, I doubt that there would be a single person that would know of him. These true masters of their art are collected by the sophisticated collector and I assure you that you will have no trouble placing their works."
Lambert, D. "Why Just One?-Daryle Lambert's Antique and Collectible Blog-Another Glass Master." June 19, 2009. accessed June 19, 2009. http://31corp.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-just-one-daryle-lamberts-antique.html
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