Portraits of Clay
Smith, Sandra S.![Portraits of Clay](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/941/9413762/CHSBZCOP039413762.jpg)
Not long ago, pottery was a lost art in Chihuahua, Mexico. But in the 1970s, near the ruins of Casas Grandes, an art revolution was born. Inspired by ancient pottery fragments from a tradition that had disappeared before the arrival of the first Europeans, a self-taught woodcutter-turned-artist reinvented an entire ceramic technology. Today Casas Grandes pottery, made by hand from local clays and mineral colors by a handful of artists, claims ...