Ortiz Family and Teaching Tree

Disclaimer: This "family and teaching tree" is a best effort on our part to determine who the potters are in this grouping and arrange them in a generational order/order of influence. Complicating this for Mata Ortiz is that everyone essentially teaches everyone else (including the neighbors), so it's hard to get a real lineage of family/teaching. The general information available is scant. This diagram is subject to change as we get better info.

    Ortiz Family
    • Emeterio Ortiz (d. 1998)
      • Manuel and Benita Reyes
        • Manuel Reyes Jr.
        • Yolanda Reyes
        Their students who became potters:
        • Martin Rios
          • Mari Rios (niece)
      • Porfilio Pilo Mora
        • Manuel Mora
        • Jorge Cordero Palacios
          • Jorge Cordero Luruena
      • Sabino Caby Villalba
        Others who learned from him:
        • Adriana Villalba de Andrew
        • Andres Villalba (Sabino's father)
        • Carlos Villalba
        • Maria de Lourdes Villalba
    • Felix Ortiz & Otila Sandoval
      • Raquel Ortiz & Cesar Navarette
      Others who learned from them:
      • Roberto Beto Tena & Sofia Sandoval de Tena
        • Adolfo Fito Tena
        • Gerardo Tena & Norma Hernandez de Tena
          • Gerardo Tena Jr.
          • Mariela Tena
          • Melissa Tena
        Others who learned from them:
        • Antonia Tena de Mora
          • Bonifacia Mora
          • Laulo Mora
          • Manuel Mora
          • Nena Mora
          • Rosa Mora
    • Teodora Ortiz & Reynaldo Pedregon
      • Enrique Pedregon Ortiz

Some of the above info is drawn from:

  • The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz, by Susan Lowell, © 1999, Rio Nuevo Publishers.
  • Secrets of Casas Grandes: Precolumbian Art and Archaeology of Northern Mexico, edited by Melissa S. Powell, © 2006, Museum of New Mexico Press.
  • Mata Ortiz Pottery Today, by Guy Berger, © 2010, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
  • Mata Ortiz Pottery: Art and Life, by Ron Goebel, © 2008, self-published.
  • The Miracle of Mata Ortiz, by Walter P. Parks, © 1993, The Coulter Press.

Most other info is derived from either personal contacts with family members or with individual traders plus interminable searches of the Internet and cross-examinations of the data found.

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