Louise Goodman

Louise Rose Goodman (born December 25, 1937) is a Navajo folk artist and ceramicist.

Biography A member of the Biih Bitoodnii (Deer Spring) clan, Goodman learned pottery making from her sister-in-law, Lorena Bartlett. Her range of work includes standard jars and bowls produced in a wide variety of shapes including a significant amount of animal forms such as chickens, rams, dogs, squirrels, bears, lions, elephants, and other domestic and wild creatures. Goodman turned to creating animal figures, already common among contemporary Navajo potters, when she noticed a decline in demand for her more functional clay pots.

Goodman's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Coiled Pot, about 1986, fired clay with piñon pitch, 14 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (37.8 x 28.3 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Selected group exhibitions

1988 – anii ánáádaalyaa'ii; Continuity and Innovation in Recent Navajo Art, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1989 – Navajo Junction: Where Navajo Potteries Meet, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson Rosenak, Chuck; Rosenak, Jan; The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art. Northland Publishing Co. Eddington, Patrick; Makov, Susan. Trading Post Guidebook. Northland Publishing Co. Hayes, Allan; Blom, John; Hayes, Carol (2015-08-03). Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni. Taylor Trade Publishing.