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Maria showed that she had a "knack" in working with pottery since she was a young girl. She combined water and clay to create beautiful and useful pieces of art. Soon she became a famous pottery artist in New Mexico. His husband was Julian Martinez and they decided to work with pottery and demonstrated pottery making at expositions that benefit the Pueblo community because she started to sign their works and received a profit. Maria signed the work of other artists in Pueblo and gave them the money that resulted from the sale of the pieces of art.