Colorful Mexican pottery is not hard to spot, with its vivid hues and complex designs as unique as the maker. Often in the form of vessels, bowls, vases, and tiles, these functional clay pottery ...

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 ...

“We like that pottery, we call them the Mimbres people ... which is most commonly found in west-central New Mexico. The bowl interiors have a thick orange-red slip and black geometric, swirling ...

The two learned how to create pottery from their family members ... starting with a custom-made basecoat, the New Mexico Bowl logo, the Zia sun symbol, and other symbols.

Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery (Museum of New Mexico Press), artist and art historian Traugott and archaeologist Scott G. Ortman show that these painted patterns on bowls, jars ...

"Pottery is a big part of Mexican culture." Previous years' celebrations have sold bowls filled with culinary reminders of Hispanic culture, including soup one year and bunuelos another time.