Grounded In Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery

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The Vilcek Foundation has partnered with the School for Advanced Research to develop a new exhibition, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. The exhibition features works from the Vilcek Collection and from the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR). Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opens July 31, 2022, at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture situated on the traditional lands of the Tewa people, O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place), or Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The exhibition was curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of more than 60 Native American community members from the 22 Pueblo communities in the Southwest. The collective was established as an initiative of the Indian Arts Research Center and SAR in 2019 to engage community members in the development of this exhibition.

The collective is a diverse group that includes potters, designers, and other artists, as well as writers, poets, community leaders, and museum professionals amongst themselves.. Members of the collective selected and wrote about the 116 pieces from the collections of SAR and the Vilcek Foundation that comprise Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. A small number of non-Pueblo museum professionals worked as facilitators and writers for this project, and are also part of the collective.

Following the exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery will travel through 2025, starting with a joint presentation in New York City by the Vilcek Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 13, 2023 to June 4, 2024.