MATA ORTIZ: The Art of Survival & The Survival of Art. Volume I tells the story of internationally recognized ceramicists Graciela and Hector Gallegos from the arrival of their grandparents from China and California to the remote village of Mata Ortiz in the Mexican state of Chihuahua in the early part of the 1900's to the present. The 80 page volume recounts moments in the Industrial and Mexican Revolution, the Agrarian Reform Movement and the formation of a lucrative pottery tradition in the village is told through oral history and over 120 photographs with text in both English and Spanish.