Wally Grover Carving Kachina Dolls at AZ Handmade Gallery

Hopi artist, Wally Grover, will be at AZ Handmade  Gallery on June 24th from 10:00am-5:00pm.  He’ll be carving Kachina dolls, as well as talking about this traditional art and how he approaches his own creations.

Grover is from the Kachina/Parrot clan and from the Tewa Village on Hopi’s First Mesa at Polacca, AZ. He was 18 when his brother-in-law, Marlon Huma, taught him to carve cottonwood root. The tools for his carving include a pocketknife, coping saw, and a wood burner. He uses acrylic paints to color the details and images on his dolls.