Rodas was born on February 8, 1925, in Itá in the Central Department, a city that is nicknamed the Capital of Ceramics.
[4] She was educated in ceramic art by her mother Juana de Jesús Oviedo and grandmother María Balbina Cuevas.
Herself, she passed her knowledge to her daughter with whom she worked together great part of her career and who became a known ceramist herself too, Julia Isídrez.
[1] Rodas' work should be classified as modern art, and is characterized by traditional pottery of the countryside with exotic Jesuit and contemporary techniques.
Josefina Pla characterized her work as "micro-sculptures" in her book La cerámica popular Paraguaya.