Mata Ortiz Pottery Show and Sale
Friday-Sunday, February 13-15, 2026
10:00 am-4:00 pm each day
Visit Amerind’s Mata Ortiz Show and Sale and meet Award-winning potters Hector Gallegos Jr., Laura Bugarini, César Bugarini, and, for the first time, Paula Gallegos Bugarini from Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico. Come and meet the artists, learn about their work, and have the opportunity to purchase one of their incredible works of art. The artists will conduct demonstrations and firings (weather permitting).
This event is included with regular Museum admission
Also, on Friday and Saturday, February 13 & 14, 2026, 10 am-4 pm, we will have a book signing with Award-Winning Author Charmayne Samuelson for her Best Seller “Mata Ortiz Poetry of the Clay,” a full color, bilingual book featuring 24 contemporary potters with original poetry by Charmayne Samuelson.
She will also have her best-selling biography, SPENCER MacCallum Memories-Mystique-Mata Ortiz. A biography of the anthropologist who jump-started the Mata Ortiz pottery movement after meeting potter, farmer, and cowboy Juan Quezada.
What could be more special than an exquisite piece of pottery along with a signed bestseller!
This event is included with regular museum admission.
You may also like the following events from Amerind Museum:
- Next Friday, 28th November, 10:00 am, Mata Ortiz Potter Show & Sale in Dragoon
- Next month, 4th December, 07:00 pm, Free Online talk with Dr. Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tísoc. in Dragoon, Arizona
- Next month, 13th December, 10:00 am, Amerind Holiday Mercado in Dragoon
Also check out other
Arts events in Dragoon,
Literary Art events in Dragoon,
Meetups in Dragoon.
