B.F.A Colorado State University

            Gregory S. Wood, ArchaeoCeramist, Art Educator, and recipient of the National Park Service’s Award of Interpretive Excellence, has worked with clay for more than thirty-five years. His ongoing research with archaeologists in museums and on-site has led him to remote locations throughout the American Southwest and Latin America, tracing the origins of ancient pottery in the New World. Using prehistorically available materials and methods reconstructed from excavated potsherds, he replicates ancient pottery without the benefit of metal, modern equipment, commercial materials or fuels. He strives to create ethical alternatives to owning artifacts in a collectible market that helps to preserve our threatened archaeological heritage.

            His work has been featured at The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, The Anasazi Heritage Center, in interpretive exhibits at Canyonlands National Park and in the National Geographic Explorer television documentary entitled “Looters!”

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