Zuni Art Market opens today, showcases local artisans and heritage
Zuni artisans opened a weekend market in Zuni Pueblo today, selling jewelry, pottery, beadwork and more directly to visitors. Buyers also learned Zuni techniques and personal stories.
The Zuni Art Market opened today along NM 53 in Zuni Pueblo, giving local artists a weekend sales floor for jewelry, pottery, carvings and other work rooted in Zuni heritage. The market is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow, and visitors can buy directly from the artisans who made the pieces.
Zuni artisans offered jewelry, pottery, carvings, paintings, beadwork, quillwork, sculpture, leatherwork, textiles and more.
Ancestral Rich Treasures of Zuni Cooperative, or ARTZ, listed the market at 1192 State Highway 52 in Zuni, New Mexico 87327 in its 2025 materials, and the 2026 event ran Friday through Sunday, July 17-19, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ARTZ’s 2026 application also required artists and food vendors to carry a peddler’s permit from the Zuni Taxation Office, and food vendors to have a valid food handler permit.
Visitors can learn first-hand about Zuni arts, techniques and personal stories, with traditional pottery, stone fetish carving, silversmithing, jewelry and woodcarving among the forms on offer. Zuni Pueblo is the largest of New Mexico’s 19 pueblos, covering more than 700 square miles and home to more than 10,000 people, about 38 miles southwest of Gallup.
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