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Otellie Loloma (Otellie Pasiyava) was born on 30 December, 1921 in Second Mesa, Arizona, is a Hopi artist, potter, dancer. Discover Otellie Loloma's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Otellie Pasiyava |
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72 years old |
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Capricorn |
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30 December 1921 |
| Birthday |
30 December |
| Birthplace |
Second Mesa, Arizona |
| Date of death |
1993 |
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United States
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Otellie Loloma Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Otellie Loloma's Husband?
Her husband is Charles Loloma
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Charles Loloma |
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Otellie Loloma Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Otellie Loloma worth at the age of 72 years old? Otellie Loloma’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. She is from United States. We have estimated Otellie Loloma's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Under Review |
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Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Otellie Loloma (December 30, 1921 — January 30, 1993) was a Hopi Native American artist, specializing in pottery and dance.
Additionally, she worked with her husband Charles Loloma on jewelry design.
Otellie Pasiyava was raised on a Hopi reservation at Second Mesa, Arizona, and educated in schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
She made clay objects from childhood, but began formal training in pottery at age 23, when she was invited to study on a scholarship at the School of the American Craftsman at Alfred University.
She also attended Northern Arizona University and the College of Santa Fe.
Otellie Pasiyava married Hopi jewelry designer Charles Loloma in 1947, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1965.
Otellie Loloma ran a shop at the Kiva Craft Center in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband in the 1950s.
She was one of the first instructors hired for the Southwest Indian Art Project in Tucson, Arizona, a summer institute funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1960 to 1961.
She joined the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when it opened in 1962, a position she held until her retirement in 1988.
In addition to her expertise in pottery, Loloma taught Native American dance with colleague Josephine Myers-Wapp (Comanche); they performed at the White House and at the 1968 Summer Olympics with their students.
In 1970, she was one of two women among eight diverse artists featured in an ABC documentary, "With These Hands: The Rebirth of the American Craftsman," along with Paul Soldner, Peter Voulkos, Dorian Zachai (the other woman artist), Clayton Bailey, James Tanner, Harry Nohr, and J. B. Blunk.
In 1991, she was honored with a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
Otellie Loloma died in 1993, age 71.
Works by Otellie Loloma are included in the permanent collections at the Museum of the American Indian, the Heard Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Philbrook Museum of Art, among other institutions.
Her nephew Nathan Begaye became an artist in pottery after his aunt.
Her friend and IAIA colleague, poet James A. McGrath, wrote a book of poems about (and dedicated to) Otellie Loloma, titled The Sun is a Wandering Hunter (2014).
