MATA ORTIZ, Mexico ... adding coils of clay. They painted with brushes made with the fine strands of children’s hair and used cow dung or cottonwood bark to fire their pottery.

who then passed them along to Mexico when they arrived to colonize. Indigenous people in Puebla were making earthenware pottery using traditional methods and local volcanic clay long before the ...

The film "Alfareros De Puebla" explores the rich tradition of tile and pottery making in Puebla, Mexico, highlighting ... from mixing clay sourced from nearby mountains to the artistic painting ...

Amatenango del Valle is a pueblo of about 5,000 people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Life there is centered around the craft of making pottery. Farming also provides sustenance to the community ...

Before opening El Bazar Azteca in San Jose three years ago, Teresa Saldana was selling her imported Talavera pottery on street corners out of a van. Even then, the bright colors of the ceramics, ...

In San Marcos Tlapazola, Griselda Mateo Gutiérrez uses a piece of quartz to burnish a shallow bowl made of local red clay. She learned how to make pottery from her mother and aunts. In Mexico ...

“Grounded in Clay” features Native curators from New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo ... emotional dimensions of Pueblo pottery, “the literal vessel by which our people sustain themselves, psychically ...

Nov. 1—In 1974, a group of clay artists and potters in Albuquerque with like-minded values founded the New Mexico Potters' Association. Soon, other potters from all corners of the state joined ...