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FRIDAY AUGUST 19, 2022 • VOL. 52, NO. 33
Grounded In Clay: The Spirit Of Pueblo Pottery
The Morgan Library And Museum Celebrates 100 Years Of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Community-Curated Exhibition Prioritizes Pueblo Indian Knowledge And Experience Organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation, the exhibition “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” recently opened on unceded Tewa Indian lands at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, N.M., before traveling nationally. The exhibit will be at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 2023; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2024; and the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo., 2025. Pueblo Indian pottery has long been exhibited and interpreted in the academic and museum worlds through singular, often generic,
communities it represents. The project gives authority and voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of over 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities who selected and wrote about artistically or culturally distinctive pots from two significant Pueblo pottery collections, the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe and the Vilcek Foundation of New York. The exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center’s pottery collection in 1922. As SAR’s first-ever exhibition, it
This Zuni water jug (ca. 1720) is on view along with more than 100 extraordinary pieces in the “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” exhibition organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation. It is on view at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, N.M., and will travel to the MET in 2023. This piece was chosen for the exhibition by Elysia Poon, Indian Arts Research Center director at the School for Advanced Research. Shifting Traditional Exhibition Models “Grounded in Clay” shifts traditional exhibition curation models, combining individual voices from Native communities where pots have been made and used for millennia into a uniquely Indigenous group narrative. The approach illuminates the complexities of Pueblo history and contemporary life through the curators’ lived experiences, redefining concepts of Native art, history, and beauty from within, confronting academically imposed narratives about Native life, and challenging stereotypes about Native peoples. “The Pueblos are not a monolith,” states Poon. “Within each community, there are both individual and shared experiences. In many cases, the curators picked pots that weren’t even from their own community. It resulted in a much more complex and rich mixture than we imagined.” Dating from pre-contact to the present day, the featured pots
connect and contrast the lives of Puebloans in communities spanning from New Mexico’s 19 Río Grande Pueblos to the West Texas community of Ysleta del Sur to the Hopi tribe of Arizona. Curators of diverse ages, backgrounds, and professions selected and wrote about one or more work. The exhibit’s focus on personal and community meaning emerges as a conversation expressed in prose, poetry, and the visual language of pottery. The curators’ firsthand knowledge of pots and potters, family rituals, traditional materials, and daily use grounds viewers in a powerful sense of people and place. At the same time, a thread of ancestral memory connects individual pots to the pride, pain, and living legacy of Pueblo peoples. For example, museum curator Tony Chavarria writes of a ca. 1900 stone-polished blackware olla from his home pueblo of Kha’p’o Owingeh/Santa Clara whose shape sparks a memory of his grandmother’s favorite vintage Continued on page 11
This Acoma storage jar (ca. 1880) was chosen for the exhibition by Brian Vallo, former governor, Haak’u/Acoma Pueblo. points of view: as ethnographic remnants of the archaeological past or as fine art examples aligned with milestones in Western art history and culture. But the launch of a unique traveling exhibition featuring over 100 historic and contemporary works in clay offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. Originating in the cradle of the Indigenous Southwest, “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” is a rare exhibition curated by the Native American
also marks the institution’s 13-year efforts to bridge the cultural needs and knowledge of Native communities with its public education mission. “‘Grounded in Clay’ is part of our public education mission which, in this case, enables the public to experience pottery through the eyes of Native peoples,” says SAR President Michael F. Brown. Indian Arts Research Center Director Elysia Poon adds, “Pottery permeates the lives of Pueblo peoples. For many, it is impossible to divorce the pieces from the people.”
Major Exhibit Explores Literary Career While Marking Milestone Of First Edition Being Published To mark the centenary of the groundbreaking novel’s first edition, the Morgan Library and Museum presents “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’” running through Oct. 2. Curated by the noted Irish author Colm Tóibín, the exhibition explores the trajectory of Joyce’s life and career from lyric poet to modernist genius and illuminates the author’s creative Continued on page 3
Historic Rock Ford To Host Noted Long Rifle Expert Dr. Mel Stewart Hankla Lecture Will Be Held Aug. 27 Historic Rock Ford, consisting of the ca. 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion and the John J. Snyder Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative Arts, will host Dr. Mel Stewart Hankla of Carter County, Ky., on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 2 p.m. Hankla will present his program, “The American Long Rifle: Backbone of Frontier Culture.” Hankla will showcase examples of Continued on page 9
In This Issue This Nativity set (ca. 1982) is on view along with more than 100 extraordinary pieces in the “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” exhibition.
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