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Global Day of Clay, Video and National Ceramics School, San Marcos Tlapazola

Global Day of Clay, Video and National Ceramics School, San Marcos Tlapazola

My father was a potter so I have a special affinity for clay. My kitchen in Teotitlan del Valle holds an assortment of San Marcos Tlapazola barro rojo from for cooking. Shelves are stacked with elegant, simple red clay dishes and bowls from which to dine. I love this clay and the women who make it. The village is up the road from where I live.

For centuries, since pre-Hispanic times, San Marcos…

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Pieza de Barro Rojo.

Pieza de barro rojo que formó parte de una primera exploración con el material, hecha para poner anillos, pulseras, etc. 

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Red Pottery of San Marcos Tlapazola, Tlacolula, Oaxaca

Red Pottery of San Marcos Tlapazola, Tlacolula, Oaxaca

My dad was a potter and I grew up with a potter’s wheel and an electric kiln in our garage.  Tools were piled on the table, where also sat clay forms drying to the leather hard before he put them into the oven.

This is where he would go to work when he came home from work.  For him, I think, putting his hands on the clay of earth and forming it into something beautiful or whimsical or functional…

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3 Little Pigs

Handmade with local red clay by indigenous artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico. 

$118