

About us
Our family specializes in making one of a kind tufa sand cast jewelry. This Jewelry business blossomed from Santiago Leo Coriz, then was passed down five generations from Sedellio Lovato and his wife Mary C. Lovato onto Leos grandson Anthony Lovato and finally to his children and grandchildren; Kewa Pueblo arts is a family owned and operated business. Each jeweler is unique in their own craft, we make a bridge between contemporary and traditional styles of art.
A story of Generations
For generations their has been artists in our pueblos ancestry, and our family are just a few of the hundreds of Native artists who chose to carry on the tradition.
Great Great Grandfather, Valentino Coriz
Valentino would ride the train for miles to places like Arizona and California. He would trade his turquoise necklaces that were hand drilled and were locally mined in the Cerrillos mountains near Santa Fe, NM. He would return on horseback months later with a heard of sheep and other goods for the family.
Great Grandfather, Santiago Leo Coriz
(b.1913)
Santiago Leo Coriz is the grandfather of Anthony Lovato and was one of the first silver smiths in a pueblo full of lapidary and ceramic artists. Santiago learned how to cast silver into sandstone when he met a Hopi man named Jimmy Koot'swy'tewa in the navy during world war II, he showed Santiago the tufa sandcasting technique and where to mine the sandstone.
Grandmother, Mary Coriz Lovato (b.1936)
In the late 1950's Mary revived the traditional technique of stone-in-shell mosaic jewelry inlaid with silver and natural stones such as turquoise, coral, mother of pearl and other stones. She is known for her mosaic hand designs.
Grandfather Sedelio Lovato (b.1929)
Sedelio father of Anthony was a veteran of the Korean war. He was a well accomplished silversmith, known for not only his tufa sand cast work, but lapidary work as well.
Anthony Lovato
In 1978 Anthony decided since he grew up in a family of artists he should further his education in that area, So he attended IAIA in Santa Fe, and got his accociates degree in Fine Arts. Following graduation he moved to Arizona and worked at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff from 1979 to 1980. While Anthony was there he attended additional jewelry classes at the Northern Arizona University and the University of Colorado in Boulder. From 1984 to present day he has been a dedicated jeweler.
Joel Pajarito
Joel blends a mixture of contemporary an traditional styles, using a wide variety of stones. His imagery includes horses, petroglyphs, corn and butterflies. He also creates hollow ware jewelry.
Cordell Pajarito
Fast developing his personal style, Cordell's tufa cast pieces show intricately carved traditional motifs. He often uses a variety of natural materials within inlaid mosaic.
Serina Bailon
Serina is the eldest daughter and is married she has two children with her husband. Serina is in the work shop whenever she can be. Having children to support she works multiple jobs and rarely has time.
Autumn Pajarito
Youngest daughter Autumn graduated in 2016 and is currently working at a youth shelter in a Santa Fe she is a mother as well so he finds time to work when she can.
Ramona J. Garcia
Ramona is a mother of two and is employed at the Santa Fe Indian school and like her sisters is always busy with work and is only in the shop when she has time.
Dominic Melchor
Dominic is the second youngest son of Anthony and practices a traditional techniqe of making pottery, he also has made a few sand cast pieces.
Triston Noah Pajarito
Triston is the youngest out of Anthony's children and also attended school at IAIA to build his background in Studio Arts.
Matthew Lovato
Matthew the eldest grandchild of Anthony Lovato, is a jeweler as well as a painter, he also makes other crafts like earrings using cut out gourds pieces.
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Take a look at our one of a kind tufa sand cast jewelry.
Click on pieces to view back designs, Tufa sand cast technique allows us to design both sides of piece.
NP: Medium Dragonfly / Bumble bee bracelet ?
$900.00
Stone is Persian TurquoiseQuantityComing soonJP: Sun symbol Pendent Reversible
$580.00
Stones : Kingman StonesQuantityComing soonNP: Cross Pendent
$300.00
Stone : 6 mm king man TurquoiseQuantityComing soonAL: Buffalo Spirit pendant
$980.00
Stone : Ribbon Cerrillos TurquoiseQuantityComing soonNP: Flower Spirit Pendent with Rain drops on the water
$800.00
Stones : Head is Fox Turquoise & Earrings are King man TurquoiseQuantityComing soonJP: Corn spirit pendent with rain drops on water
$480.00
Stone : #8 TurquoiseQuantityComing soonJP: Sun symbol Reversable pendant
$500.00
Stone: Boulder OpalQuantityComing soonJP: Buckle with pueblo designs
$600.00
Stone : Hachita turquoiseQuantityComing soonNP: Night deer hunt pack out scene (Buckle)
$800.00
Stone - Persian TurquoiseQuantityComing soonNP : Reversible turtle Pendents
$200.00
Left - Cerrillos turquoise Right - Boulder opalQuantityComing soonNP: Corn & Rain cloud Post earrings
$260.00
- "2" 1/2 cm / "2" 1/2 cmQuantityComing soonJP : Corn post earrings
$200.00
- "2" 1/2 cm / "2 " cmQuantityComing soonJP: Corn with step design / Post earrings
$240.00
- "2" 1/2 cm / "2" cmQuantityComing soonAL: Corn in rain storm / Dangle earrings
$280.00
- "3" cm / "2" cmQuantityComing soonNP : Rain Cloud post earrings
$260.00
- "2" 1/2 cm / "2" 1/2 cmQuantityComing soonJP: Corn Post Earrings
$220.00
"1" in / "2" cm .QuantityComing soonflower bracelet artist Noah
$780.00
kingman turquoiseQuantityComing soonJP: Turtle Spirit Pendent
$680.00
Stones: Front / Spiny oyster shell head, Serpentine body Back/ Sleeping beautyQuantityComing soonJP: Inlay bracelet with Corn Kernels
$1,200.00
Stones: Ivory, Coral, King man, Pilot mt. & New lander turquoiseQuantityComing soonCP: medium bracelet with pottery designs
$660.00
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