mudlark on thu 21 feb 02
Planning a trip to Sayulita, Mexico in a couple
months. Anyone have any suggestions of potteries
to visit?
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Clyde Tullis
Mudlark Pottery
320 G Street
Salida, CO 81201
719-539-1299
mudlark@chaffee.net
http://www.mudlarkpottery.com
Craig Martell on thu 21 feb 02
Hi:
I haven't been to Jalisco or Nayarit, where Sayulita is located, in about 5
years but I'll venture some thoughts.
There's not much going on around that part of Mexico with regard to pot
making. Sayulita is a great place to surf and hang out with the counter
culture. Nice lil' Pueblo.
From Puerto Vallarta you can take a 20 minute plane trip to Guadalajara
and visit Tonala and Tlaquepaca on the eastern boundaries of the
city. Thursday is market day in Tonala and there are a lot of potters
there. Some do hi fire stoneware and porcelain and there's also a lot of
Brunido or burnished ware. Sometimes Jose Bernabe or his family are
there. They do some of the nicest Brunido in that area. You have to take
a city bus to get there from Centro de Guadalajara. It's a nice ride thru
the city and you see a lot. It helps to know some Espanol so you can ask
someone to tell you when you have arrived. It's not all that
obvious. Tlaquepaca is a market district with a lot of craft shops and
some nice pottery from all over Mexico.
If you have a lot of extra time and a few bucks left over for more travel,
you could also catch a plane to Leon, the largest city in Guanaguato and
from there, bus to Dolores Hidalgo, Guanaguato, and San Miguel de
Allende. These places are in central Mexico in the Sierra Madre
Mts. Dolores Hidalgo is a pottery town. Anything that can be made from
clay is made there. They make pottery equipment, kick wheels and other
stuff too. If you get to Guanaguato, you could visit Gorky Gonzales. He
does cone 2 woodfire Majolica. He studied with Kei Fujiwara in Japan. In
San Miguel de Allende, there's an american woman, Nancy Schlight who does
hi fire porcelain. If she's still there, she will show you her studio and
can recommend tons of places to visit.
I know this is all a distance from where you'll be but it's the closest
pottery stuff I could think of. You can see pots from all over in the
shops in Puerto Vallarta but it's pretty touristy and spendy. You have to
exercise your powers of haggling, which is ok because this is a socially
acceptable form of interchange in Mexico.
regards, Craig Martell in Oregon
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