Alma Jimenez Lopez is a Mexican-American artist and designer whose work explores material, memory, and cultural continuity through ceramics, textiles, and spatial design. With roots in Comonfort, Guanajuato, Mexico, and raised in Texas, her practice is informed by inherited traditions of making, early exposure to weaving through her grandfather, and the lived experience of cultural duality. Bringing over 16 years of experience across ceramics, interiors, and product development, Lopez extends her ceramic-based inquiry into textiles through Compartido, her collection with Nomadory. Inspired by communal rituals, shared joy, and the everyday care systems within first-generation families, the rugs translate memories of conchas and candy into tactile, hand-crafted surfaces—designed to be lived on, gathered around, and experienced together.