Several major reviews of GiC appeared in 2023 after the show opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in July. This include:

• “Relationships Carved from Clay Bring New Partners to Museums.”  New York Times, August 13, 2023
  
• “Three Ways of Looking at Pueblo Art, “  Boston Globe, August 17, 2023
  
• ‘Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery’ Review: Fusing Form and Function,” Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2023

All of these may be behind paywalls, for which I apologize.

Anyone interested in this important exhibition should take a look at SAR’s Ground in Clay page as well as the Vilcek Foundation’s GIC section, which includes links to audio clips of the curators’ comments on each pot.

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ORIGINAL AUGUST 22, 2022 POST

After the opening of SAR’s long-awaited exhibition, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, at the end of July, regional and national reviews have begun to appear. The response has been remarkably positive, exceeding even our expectations. Perhaps the most exuberant appeared in Forbes (August 26, 2022) in an article by Chadd Scott largely focused on this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market. Here are the relevant paragraphs:

“The Museum for Indian Arts and Culture premiers a groundbreaking exhibition of Pueblo pottery, “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery.” On view through May 29, 2023 before heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Grounded in Clay” features over 100 historic and contemporary works in clay offering a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. The exhibition shifts traditional curation models, combining individual voices from Native communities where pots have been made and used for millennia into a uniquely Indigenous group narrative . . . .”

“Most of the items seen in Grounded in Clay come from the nearby School for Advanced Research, which houses the premier collection of Pueblo pottery anywhere in the world. It’s something of a secret as SAR’s work has largely occurred out of the public eye until now . . . Consider this an unmissable experience when visiting Santa Fe. A more powerful combination of art and spirituality may not exist anywhere in the world.“

Other illustrated articles on the exhibition:

“Breaking the Mold,” New Mexico Magazine, August 2022 
 “A Community of Clay” Native American Art Magazine, issue 39“
Community Focus” Art & Antiques, Summer 2022
“60 Curators, 1 Show,” Associated Press, 6 August 2022

GIC’s catalog will be available for purchase on Amazon.com in early September.