We work with traditional potters in three villages in the state of Oaxaca. Although each community expresses a traditional processes that is fundamentally the same - working with natural local clays, which are fired at a relatively low temperature - the finished results are wonderfully diverse.

Barro Chorreado

Indigenous pottery made from natural clays and oak-bark tints in the Sierra Mixteca.

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Barro Rojo

Red clay pottery made via traditional processes in the Valles Centrales region.

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Barro Negro

Black clay pottery fired via a unique processes in the village of San Bartolo Coyotepec.

Glance into the darkness