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INDIGENOUS ARTS
Mata Ortiz Pottery
In the 1950s teenage Juan Quezada Celado travled the mountainside outside his home in Mata Ortiz, Mexico collecting firewood and foraging for food. While searching Juan also found prehistoric pottery shards with beautiful decorative patterns and colors. As an artist Juan meticulously self taught himself every step of the pottery making process, an art that hadn’t been practiced in that areas for hundreds of years. With time Juan invented his pottery making style.He also taught the people of Mata Ortiz pottery making as well.Now Mata Ortiz is a site of one of the latest and richest artistic revolutions of our times. Each pot is unique, shaped by hand, not using a pottery wheel with all of the materials used in making the pots found in Mata Ortiz
