Guillermo Ríos Alcalá

Guillermo Ríos Alcalá is a Mexican potter, restoration expert and educator from the state of Colima.

[1] He was born in Chapala, Jalisco to Felipe Ríos and María Guadalupe Alcalá, but moved to the city of Colima in 1957.

As a child, Ríos Alcalá played with balls of clay but had no real inclination towards pottery, but his father made him learn.

[4] Ríos Alcalá created a monumental version of this piece which stands at a traffic circle in the city of Colima, on the highway to Comala.

[2] Ríos Alcalá has studied the pre Hispanic pottery of western Mexico for years, visiting pieces in museums and photographing archeological sites.