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Alice Cling
born 1946 Cow Springs, Arizona
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work Desert Hot Springs, California
1929 Honolulu, Hawaii - 2009 Santa Fe, New Mexico
1900 Cleveland, Ohio – 1966 Los Angeles, California
BiographyAlice Cling was born in 1946 in Cow Springs, Arizona, in the Tonalea area of the Navajo Reservation. She learned pottery from her mother, Rose Williams, and her great aunt, Grace Barlow. Alice married Jerry Cling and has four children who also make pottery. Her pots are known for being decorated simply with a traditional thin coat of pitch to allow the natural pigmentation of the clay and the fire to shine through.