Cathedral of Our Lady from Guadalupe
In ancient times, it was a small chapel reserved for the exclusive use of Francisco Montaño de la Cueva. As time progressed, it passed...
Mata Ortíz rose to fame thanks to the miracle of a meeting between two extraordinary human beings: Juan Quezada Celado and Spencer MacCallum. The first, a simple country man, the second a professor of Anthropology. Juan Quezada rediscovered in a self-taught way the ancestral technique of making ceramics with the technique of the ancients. Spencer discovered in the budding potter a friend, a generous, brilliant and humble artist.
It all started when Spencer found a small clay pot at a thrift store in New Mexico. Mr. MacCallum thought it was ancient art because of the technique seen in the making of the pot. He asked about the origin of the piece and was informed that it was made by a “boy” in Mexico. Spencer wanted to meet the author and ventured out to literally look for a needle in a haystack. The professor found the “boy” and the rest is history.