User:Vicente Juan Rodriguez

This article is about American Arizona Mestizo artist, designer, director, educator, children book writer/illustrator. Mr. Vicente Juan Rodriguez is born of the Mestizo families of the Rodriguez,Romero,Peru, Garcia, Macias.

Vicente Juan Rodriguez is an American, Arizona Mestizo, artist, designer, educator, director and children book writer and illustrator. Notable for his world-class artwork and founder of the revitalization of the Ancient Trinchera pottery style and Mestizo pop art/design.

Biography

Rodriguez was born in Prescott, Arizona. His family soon moved to Duncan, Arizona where he grew up and graduated from Duncan High School. Vicente J. Rodriguez grew up in southeastern Arizona in Duncan Arizona, on land that had been farmed by his ancestors for generations. There, as a young boy he learned to love the land and his heritage. By the age of five he was already interested in art and was fascinated by the broken pieces of pottery that could be found scattered about on his grandparents’ land – remnants of a past civilization, a people whom his family referred to as Los Antiguos, “The Ancient Ones.”

Being Mestizo a mix of the Ancients and Spanish descendants and growing up on the Arizona-New Mexico border, he heard many stories about Los Antiguos that intrigued him and inspired his study of the Arizona ancient cultures and their arts including pottery making, pit firing & drawing.

He attended Arizona State University and Western New Mexico University were he earned 120 credit hours in art education but then decided to get his degrees in Graphic Design, Visual Communications and Media Design. Vicente acquired his professional Art degree, then Vicente graduated from Collins College Design School where he acquired his Associates of Arts in Visual Communications/Graphic Design. He then went on and got his Bachelors of Fine Arts in graphic design and has his masters in Media Design from Full Sail University out of Florida.

Vicente Juan Rodriguez comes from a long line of Rodriguez’s that can be traced back to the time of the rule of Spain were the first Rodriguez’s mapped the lands for the queen of Spain. Eventually the family was broken up to help the mapping of the new world some stayed in Spain and some were sent to the Americas. One half was sent to Puerto Rico, and the islands of that area and the others were sent to help Columbus and the Spanish armada in the Americas. Vicente is 5th generation Arizonan/New Mexican. He also has family that is of the ancient prehistoric pottery cultures of now a day Arizona and now a day Mexico. Some of his family once lived in the Casas Grandes area of Chihuahua, Mexico.

In May 2004, Vicente announced his engagement to Maritza Rodriguez of Puerto Rico, who is a Dr. in Sports Medicine. They were married on 22 of May 2004 and now have two beautiful children Kalysta Reyna Rodriguez and Vicente J. Rodriguez Jr.

Professional work

Vicente’s early career included working as an artist, and an educator. He went on to teach art & design and coach High School Varsity football, baseball and girls softball. He coached with his brother Ben Rodriguez at several high schools in Arizona where they made history at one of the schools. Vicente continued working as an educator and eventually went on to teach at the college level. He has worked as an art and design instructor for Cochise College for the last 10 semesters. He is also currently known for creating a pottery style called Trinchera pottery and Mestizo pop art. Vicente works in his studio and concentrates on his art design and documentaries.

Vicente J. Rodriguez Pottery

TRINCHERA POTTERY

Trinchera pottery has never been seen by most people. There is a handful of people that have seen this beautiful one of a kind ancient Trinchera southwest glittery pottery. This culture used a reddish, violet glittery pigment, yes glittery, to create awesome geometric designs. Trinchera’s lived in the Duncan, AZ & Virden N.M. area they also lived to the hills of San Simon, AZ & in the hills of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua MX. and eventually ending up in northern Sonora, Mexico and Southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz Altar Valley, going as far as Marana, AZ. There is very little information that has ever been said about them until now.

Vicente has revitalized the Trinchera cultures pottery. He digs the clay in the Santa Cruz county and collects all his materials from nature. Everything from clay, pointy sticks to carve his pottery, plants and minerals for his inks and yucca that he uses as brushes to paint his pottery. Is has also created the worlds smallest Trinchimbres pottery a combination of Trinchera, Mimbres, Mogollon and Casas Grandes pottery.