Jacob Koopee
Ceremony Season
5" H
x 9" D
*Special Note:
This incredibly beautiful
piece of pottery experienced a hairline crack during firing.
The flaw appears on the top surface and runs about 4 or 5 inches.
We are offering it up for sale to help Jacob move an otherwise
perfect piece. From an aesthetic standpoint, it is gorgeous.
Unfortunately, the same amount of time, effort, love, and skill
goes into making these pieces as goes into a perfect piece. We
hope you'll recognize this special opportunity and bring home
this beautiful piece for a fraction of its regular gallery price.
Jacob Koopee was born March
31, 1970. He is the great-great grandson of Nampeyo; great-grandson
of Nellie Nampeyo Douma; grandson of Marie Koopee, and the son
of Jacob Koopee, Sr. (Tewa) and Georgia Dewakuku Koopee.
In 1996, at the age of 26,
Jake was awarded Best of Show, Committee's Choice, Best Traditional
Pottery, at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He has successfully
participated in and won awards at many Markets since then.
Jacob appears in several major
publications on Hopi pottery including Hopi-Tewa Pottery:
500 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaff (p. 59), and The
Art of the Hopi by Jerry and Lois Jacka (pp. 118, 126).
He loves to base his work
on old Sikyaki designs. Jake reports, "My Aunt Dextra (Quotskuyva)
inspired me." Jake is a young man with extraordinary talent.
He creates some of the largest hand coiled / open fired pieces
of pottery at Hopi.
He has signed with his hallmark
Kokopelli and last name Koopee. And in true Koopee fashion, he
has continued the design on the underneath.
Jacob is proud of his adherence
to traditional methods which always produce a one-of-a-kind pottery,
with its own unique character and finish. In Hopi culture, nothing
is ever "perfect," and that's just the way he wants
it.
