Tony Berlant

He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a BA (1961) and MA (1962) in painting and an MFA (1963) in sculpture.

He has a large collection of Southwestern Native American art, especially Mimbres pottery and Navajo rugs.

More recently, he has used tin of his own manufacture, gaining control over the color.

[4] Berlant worked with archaeologist Steven A. LeBlanc and others in attempts to attribute Mimbres painted pottery to specific (but still anonymous) Native artists.

Berlant and LeBlanc found that (in their opinions) a relatively small number of Mimbres artists made the majority of the ancient pottery, perhaps as few as 2 or 3 artists per village at any given time.