As a child growing up in Colony, Oklahoma, Jereldine Redcorn was strongly focused on school. Caddo on her father's side and Potawatomi on her mother's, she earned a BA at Wayland College and a master's degree at the University of Oklahoma. Redcorn spent the first few decades of her life as a community activist and teacher. Then one day at the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, she discovered a collection of Caddo pots, and a world of form and design that she was completely unaware of. Never mind that no one had produced a Caddo pot for generations, Redcorn put aside her misgivings about her own artistic abilities. She taught herself hand coiling and firing and launched a Caddo pottery revival. The elegant forms and designs of her hand-coiled pots are creative tweakings of ancient designs and are often titled in Caddo for the images they bear. Redcorn was Artist in Residence at the Chicago Art Museum in 2004, received the Jacobson Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, and was a Red Earth Honored One. In this oral history interview excerpt, Redcorn talks about her early art experiences and highlights select works. For more information, visit www.library.okstate.edu/oralhistory/ona © 2013 Oklahoma State University Subscribe to this channel: www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=oohrp

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