Roberto and Angela Bañuelos
Mata Ortiz and Casas GrandesRoberto Bañuelos works with his wife Angela. She forms, sands and polishes the pots that Roberto then paints and fires. Following local tradition, as the painter, Roberto signs all the pots.
In making their pots, Angela uses yellow, red, black, white and mixed colors of clay. In applying his designs, Roberto often begins by splattering drops of a particular color across the vessel and letting that dry, then painting his interpretations of Mimbres fish, rabbits, feathers, lizards and miscellaneous fantasy creatures across the surface. He also often adds a necklace of Paquimé geometric designs around the opening.
Roberto and Angela learned to make pottery in 1988, learning from two of Angela's sisters: Rosa Irene and Gloria Isela Lopez. Both women are in-laws of Reynaldo Quezada and they learned from him.
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