Grounded in Clay

“Grounded in Clay” gives voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, the sixty Native American curators who selected and wrote about works in clay, including UNM Associate Professor of Ceramics, Clarence Cruz, from SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center and from the Vilcek Foundation. This unique traveling exhibition features over 100 historic and contemporary works in clay and offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. Grounded in Clay will be in New York until June of 2024. The exhibition then travels to Houston, followed by Saint Louis.

Foregrounding Pueblo voices and aesthetics, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is the first community-curated Native American exhibition in the history of The Met. The effort features more than one hundred historical, modern, and contemporary clay works and offers a critical understanding of Pueblo pottery as community-based knowledge and personal experience.