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Las Cruces Writer Charmayne Samuelson’s award-winning book, MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery. Poems. Artists: POES\u00cdA DEL BARRO Cer\u00e1mica. Poemas. Artistas<\/a><\/em>, is on its way to the Vatican with her Mata Ortiz collaborators. Here is Charmayne on the amazing events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The outstanding Master Mata Ortiz potters, Hector Gallegos and Laura Bugarini, are now at the Vatican in Rome for a special Chihuahua, Mexico in Rome Christmas celebration. The photos here show their outstanding work in creating magnificent life-sized statues of the nativity scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also presented my book to the Ambassador of Mexico to the Holy See, Alberto Barranco Chavarr\u00eda. I would have never dreamed that my work, my poetry\/pottery book would speed around the world to the VATICAN. This is a truly blessed Christmas!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Las Cruces Writer Charmayne Samuelson’s award-winning book, MATA ORTIZ POETRY OF THE CLAY Pottery. Poems. Artists: POES\u00cdA DEL BARRO Cer\u00e1mica. Poemas. Artistas, is on its way to the Vatican with her Mata Ortiz collaborators. Here is Charmayne on the amazing events: The outstanding Master Mata Ortiz potters, Hector Gallegos and Laura Bugarini, are now at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,4,90,17,388,32],"tags":[31,251,316,223,389],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-festival","category-events","category-members","category-press","category-recognition","category-writers","tag-charmayne-samuelson","tag-mata-ortiz","tag-mata-ortiz-poetry-of-the-clay-pottery-poems-artists","tag-poetry","tag-vatican"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdvZx1-sZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}