Eliza Naranjo Morse (1980) is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. Her work engages drawing, land, collaboration, sculpture, and writing. She receives an ongoing education from her extended family and holds a Bachelor Degree in Art from Skidmore College. She works mostly locally and has traveled internationally for various forms of creative knowledge gathering and sharing.  She lives on Santa Clara Pueblo land and continues to work with creative and communal expressions and the universes of possibility that lies within them. 

(Eliza has been immersed in artistic expression from the start: Her mother, grandmother, and much of her extended family are renowned ceramic artists, and she grew up surrounded by a tradition of creating pottery. Always comfortable with the art-making process, Eliza became interested at a young age in developing her ability to recreate on paper the world around her. Eliza has recently merged the work done based on her “western education” with the artistic traditions that she grew up with. “As a pueblo person who comes from a family of clay,” she says, “allowing these aspects of myself to interact resulted in drawings that better describe my perspective.”