The Women Potters of Mata Ortiz
Award Winners

Best of Show

• 1st Elvira Bugarini Cota (from White clay category)
• 2nd Antonia Ivonne Olivas Tena (from colored clay category)
• 3rd Elicena Cota López (from traditional black category)
• HM Olga Quezada Hernández (from innovation category)

People's Choice Award

• Graciella Martínez Quezada de Silveira (from Innovation category)

White Clay/Polychrome Paint

• 1st Nancy Heras Cota de Martínez
• 2nd Elvira Bugarini Cota
• 3rd Angela Estrella Silveira Hernández
• HM Aide Gonzáles Betancourt

Colored Clay/Polychrome Paint

• 1st Angela Estrella Silveira Hernández
• 2nd Martha Martínez Rentería de Quezada
• 3rd Betty Quintana Beltrán de Quezada
• HM Cindy Nayeli Pérez Mendoza

Traditional Black

• 1st Pabla Talavera Quezada
• 2nd Elicena Cota López
• 3rd Lydia Quezada Celado
• HM Dora Esela Corona Quezada

Graphite

• 1st Gloria Azucena Reyes Roque
• 2nd Dalila Lucero Andrew
• 3rd María Concepción Alvarado Diaz
• HM Suzy Martínez
• HM Gabriela Almeida Gallegos

Effigies/Figures

• 1st Olivia Domínguez Rentería
• 2nd María de Los Angeles Corona Guillen
• 3rd Olivia Domínguez Rentería
• HM Norma Fabiola Silveira Hernández de Villalba

Sgrafitto/Carved

• 1st Pricila Cristina Martínez López
• 2nd Celia Ortega Ledezma
• 3rd María Guadalupe Quezada Trevizo (Lupita)
• HM Claudia Ledezma Loya

Miniatures

• 1st Carla Martínez Vargas
• 2nd Carla Martínez Vargas
• 3rd Lucia Quezada Treviso
• HM Virginia Lozoyo Delgado

Innovation

• 1st Elvira Bugarini Cota
• 2nd Silvia Edelmira Silveira Sandoval (Lila)
• 3rd Pabla Talavera Quezada
• 3rd Graciella Martínez Quezada de Silveira
• HM Olga Quezada Hernández

Blank/Unfired

• 1st Rosa María Betancourt Ponce
• 2nd Guadalupe Gonzáles Betancourt (Lupita)
• 3rd Jesus Mariam Gonzáles Villalpando

Retrieved from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum web site on 01-30-2026
https://desertmuseum.org/visit/mataortiz_winners.php