Artes de Mexico Mata Ortiz Bilingual Edition Saint Michael This small bird

This small bird

and impossible not to love

meticulously painted water droplets dance across her body

caught in the classic rearing posture that rodents use to assess a threat

El Arte de la Familia Castillo / Echoes from the Womb of Clay

Artes de Mexico Mata Ortiz Bilingual Edition Saint Michael This small birdArtes de Mxico, No. 45: Cermica de Mata Ortiz Artes de Mxico No. 45 is the defining reference on one of the most remarkable stories in the history of Mexican ceramics: a tradition lost for six hundred years, reconstructed by a single self taught man in a small Chihuahuan village, and eventually celebrated in galleries and museums across North America. For collectors of Mata Ortiz pottery, this volume is less a companion to the work than a key to