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Mireya Quezada, Biography

 

Text Box: Mireya is the second daughter of Juan Quezada.  She has been making pottery for several years.  She lives in Nuevo Casas Grandes and used to work at pottery with a local teacher, Elias Javier Perez Davila.  Then she managed a small restaurant.  During that period she did not give adequate time to her artistic endeavors, and the quality of her work varied.  In the last few years she has devoted herself solely to working on her pottery.  Now she consistently produces high quality pieces.

 

Most of Mireya’s pots are of white clay, but some are a deep pink.   Many have a gracefully sculptured mouth.  The designs typically sweep down around the pot from the top and are repeated two or three times around the pot.

 

 

                                                                                                         

                                                                                Ron Schneider, November 2002