Potters of Mata Ortiz

This video visually documents the traditional methods used to create the beautiful, handmade pottery of Mata Ortiz, Mexico. It relates how Juan Quezda's revival of the prehistoric Casas Grandes ceramic tradition of northern Mexico has made Mata Ortiz a major pottery producing center of the Greater Southwest in less than two decades. Provides much ethnographic and historical material, shows ancient and contemporary pottery, village life and pottery process.