Picuris Pueblo
— the small pueblo that stayed.
Not only on a wall.
Picuris Pueblo, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Picuris Pueblo, one of the nineteen sovereign Pueblo nations of New Mexico, sits in the Picuris Valley about twenty miles south of Taos. The pueblo is Tiwa-speaking and one of the smaller communities by enrolled membership. San Lorenzo de Picuris, the rebuilt mission church, anchors the plaza. The valley is closed to outside vehicles on certain feast days, and the community sets the terms of any visit.
The place, in three passes.
Picuris Pueblo is a sovereign Tiwa-speaking Pueblo nation in Taos County, northern New Mexico, at roughly 7,300 feet in the Picuris Valley below the southern Sangre de Cristo crest. The pueblo lies a few miles north of Peñasco on State Road 75, on the High Road to Taos. Its enrolled population is among the smallest of the nineteen New Mexico Pueblos, in the low hundreds. The community has occupied the same valley continuously for roughly nine hundred years.
San Lorenzo de Picuris is a traditional adobe mission church. The original was built in the seventeenth century, destroyed in the aftermath of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, rebuilt, and substantially reconstructed in the 1990s using community labour and traditional adobe methods. The walls were rebuilt by hand with mud and straw bricks, and the roof carries vigas of local timber. The church anchors the plaza alongside older residential and ceremonial structures, and remains the principal Catholic site of the community.
The annual San Lorenzo Feast Day falls on August 10 and is the principal public event of the year. The day includes a morning Mass at the rebuilt mission church, dances on the plaza, and a long-standing footrace. Other feast and ceremonial days are not advertised to the public. Photography, sketching, and recording are restricted at the pueblo; visitors should call the tribal office before arriving and follow posted rules at the plaza.
