Only 9 days left at the Holiday Market in Grand Central New York City. The 40 day event is a long haul……many sculptures have been sold and it is great to hear how people have enjoyed their purchases over the years. For those looking for the Thank You! documentary video……click here Happy Holidays to all. [...]
NICA Ceramic Art Thank You video for Holiday Customers
The video series I created for customers at the Grand Central Holiday market is set up at: www.thankyou.nicaceramicblog.com Here you can put in your information to see the entire process for the ceramic artisans of San juan de Oriente, Nicaragua. If you are all ready on our e-mail list you can place in your info [...]
Is Nicaragua Pottery – Pueblo Pottery?
Is Nicaraguan pottery, pueblo pottery? In the market place pueblo pottery is recognized as pottery made in the pueblos of the Southwest United States. Pueblo pottery is actually a result of artisans making pottery based on an old cultural tradition. “Pueblo” is Spanish for “small town”. San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua is a small town with a 2000 [...]
Miguel Maldonado sculptures to be featured at Grand Central Holiday Market 2011
Miguel Maldonado ceramic sculptures will be featured at the NICA Ceramic Art booth at Grand Central Holiday Market opening November 14th. This will be the fifth year for NICA Ceramic Art at the Grand Central event. Miguel’s portfoloio has also been updated at nicaceramicart.com Known for the uniqueness and quality of work the NICA booth is a [...]
Documentary video – Three Generations – Potters of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua
As I get more involved with taking web videos I have gone back to my first effort which I filmed in various visits to San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua in 2001 and 2002. This was done or an old style mini dv camera and I had a editor work with me to put it together. [...]
Schedule for Luis Enrique Gutierrez coming together for 2012
Luis Gutierrez will arrive for his 2012 events in early March, or possibly end of February 2012. Traditionally Luis starts the season at the Gasparilla Festival in Tampa, FL, however, this year he may start a week earlier at the late February event in Naples, FL. March will also feature our annual trek to Scottsdale, [...]
Santiago Gutierrez – Returns to Nicaragua after successful trip
Santiago Gutierrez returns to Nicaragua after his first trip to the United State tomorrow after selling major sculptures and winning three awards. His first exhibit at the St. Louis Art Fair was the most successful where he sold 34 sculptures. Collectors were amazed by the detail and craftsmanship of Santiago’s work. Customers who [...]
San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua – 2000 Years of Pottery
The Nicaraguan village known today as San Juan de Oriente was dubbed San Juan de los Platos when the Spanish arrived in the mid 1500′s. How long were indigenous peoples of the area making pottery before Spanish arrival??? There isn’t any way to say exactly, however, the geographic area which is now Nicaragua has two [...]
Welcome to NICA Ceramic Blog
Thank you for visiting our new blog at www.nicaceramicblog.com. We launched a very successful blog last year and started to have great success in building a following and creating quality content………. Unfortunately, we lost that blog and were unable to retrieve the files…..so we are building a bigger and better experience for our fans, collectors [...]
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