In Oaxaca, traditional black pottery is making a comeback as a sustainable ... A tree-lined plaza next to the town’s 16th-century Mexican baroque church doubles as a barro negro bazaar, where ...

Colorful Mexican pottery is not hard to spot ... Talavera is made from a blend of black and white clays unique to Puebla, which goes through a process of mixing, filtering, and resting for ...

A Pueblo potter today, searching for a statement that is perhaps both innovative and respectful to tradition, can find inspiration in the painted designs on ancient pots. “Some also grind up old ...

‘Here is this American guy who goes down to Mexico to meet this Mexican artist, and they end up working together.’ As the pottery reached new markets and grew in popularity, Mata Ortiz was ...