Angélica Morales creates decorated pots with folkloric scenes and images of Purepecha women from her native Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico. Sirenas (mermaids), rituals and festivals are favorite subjects for Morales, who learned her art as a child, but who has developed a unique painterly style.

She utilizes the “blanco y negro” style that requires treating fired pots with engobes, special thin-clay solutions that prepare the pot for an additional step. One pot can take four days to apply the engobes.  She is working with her husband Roberto to build her own lead-free kiln.