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
- Ermeterio Ortiz (d. 1998)
- Manuel and Benita Reyes
- Manuel Reyes Jr.
- Yolanda Reyes
- 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
- Manuel and Benita Reyes
- Felix Ortiz & Otila Sandoval
- Raquel Ortiz & Cesar Navarette
- Roberto Beto Tena & Sofia Sandoval de Tena
- Adolfo Fito Tena
- Gerardo Tena & Norma Hernandez de Tena
- Gerardo Tena Jr.
- Mariela Tena
- Melissa Tena
- 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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