Eduardo "Chevo" Ortiz and his wife, Hortencia Dominguez de Ortiz, were prolific potters until Chevo passed on. Early in their careers they produced a lot of polychrome pottery in Paquimé styles and designs. Later in life, they were known for producing elegant black and black-on-black pottery. Usually, Chevo would make the pots, his wife would sand and polish them, he would paint the basic designs, she would fill in the blanks and he would do the firing.

Chevo was one of the original innovators in Mata Ortiz and was known as one of the best potters in town. He was most famous for producing primarily three kinds of pots:

• Jars with 4 round concave sides highly decorated with cuadritos
• Black jars with pottery rings and some with hooks attached to the rims, as though for hanging
• Black jars with formed melon-like spirals rotating downward from rim to bottom

Andrea visited Mata Ortiz for several days in 2009. Chevo appeared at the dinner held in her honor the last evening she was there. He even wore a shirt. It was one of the only times in his adult life anyone could remember him wearing a shirt, and he'd clearly had to buy one for the occasion. But that's a sign of the respect the Mata Ortiz potters feel for Andrea.