{"id":94,"date":"2021-01-23T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T02:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/?p=94"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:48:15","slug":"jug-maria-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/2021\/01\/jug-maria-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Jug, Maria Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria Martinez (Native American, San Ildefonso, 1880-1980)\n<em>Jug<\/em>, 1934-1943\nClay fired blackware ceramic\nGift of Orpha Webster\n1975.C.2.33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/files\/2021\/01\/1975.C.2.33_MartinezM_J-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/files\/2021\/01\/1975.C.2.33_MartinezM_J-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/files\/2021\/01\/1975.C.2.33_MartinezM_J-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/files\/2021\/01\/1975.C.2.33_MartinezM_J-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/files\/2021\/01\/1975.C.2.33_MartinezM_J.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Martinez\u2019s vessel is an example of the artist\u2019s renowned<br>\ntechnique and represents a cultural recontextualization that<br>\ncame to define public understandings of Native American<br>\nceramics. Known as black-on-black ware, such vessels required<br>\na painstaking, specific process of creation involving local clay,<br>\npulverization, hand-shaping, polishing and firing. Though the<br>\ntradition originated with her maternal ancestry, Martinez<br>\npioneered and popularized the style resulting in a widespread<br>\nacknowledgment of Native American ceramics as an art form.<br>\nMartinez shaped a new perception of her medium that resisted<br>\nutilitarian assumptions and cultural stereotyping. Her jug<br>\nstands as both a symbolic gesture and an inherently feminist<br>\neffort, representing an artist who defied a structural narrative<br>\nthat generally excluded both her gender and her heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Maria Martinez (Native American, San Ildefonso, 1880-1980) Jug, 1934-1943 Clay fired blackware ceramic Gift of Orpha Webster 1975.C.2.33 Maria Martinez\u2019s vessel is an example of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/2021\/01\/jug-maria-martinez\/\" title=\"Jug, Maria Martinez\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2347,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aestheticsofmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/confrontinggreatness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}