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Silveira 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.
- Gregorio Goyo Silveira & Gloria Hernandez
- Fabiola Silveira
- Goyin Silveira & Graciela Martinez
- Jose Silveira Ortiz & Socorro Sandoval
- Lila Silveira
- Saul Silveira (Ortiz)
- Trinidad Trini Silveira
- Yadira Silveira & Roberto Olivas
- Nicolas Silveira & Genoveva Sandoval
- Armando Silveira & Tomasa Mora
- Arminda Silveira
- Octavio Tavo Silveira & Mirna Hernandez
- Jesus Octavio Silveira
- Octavio Silveira
- Silvia Silveira & Tomas Ozuna
- Lazaro Ozuna
- Veronica Silveira & Sabino Villalba
- Rojelio Silveira
- Israel Silveira
- Rafael Silveira
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.