Reynalda Quezada de Lopez, Mata Ortiz jar

Reynalda Quezada de Lopez is one of Juan Quezada's sisters, who from the first day she began making pottery twenty years ago has stuck exclusively to blackware. She sculpts her pieces in shapes of turtles or frogs and sometimes decorates the rims with circling lizards and snakes. Others in the village, including her sisters Rosa and Genoveva, have copied her style. Her son, Samuel Lopez Quezada, is also an accomplished second-generation potter and her two daughters, Yolanda and Olivia, are also copying Reynalda's style. Reynalda and her husband, Simon Lopez, live in Barrio Central.

Lowell, S.; The Many Faces of Mata Ortiz, Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, 1999: 168.