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Grounded in clay : the spirit of Pueblo pottery

Title

Grounded in clay : the spirit of Pueblo pottery / Pueblo Pottery Collective, Elysia Poon, Rick Kinsel.

Publication

London ; New York : Merrell, 2022.
©2022

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Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery website (viewed February 7, 2023)

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287 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (cheifly color), color map, portraits (some color); 30 cm

Summary

No art form is more associated with the Native Americans of the Southwest than pottery. For centuries, Pueblo people have made beautiful pottery, often painted with intricate designs, for everyday activities such as cooking, food storage and gathering water, and for ceremonial use. Vessels of these types have been found at ancient sites including Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. The tradition of pottery-making continues to thrive among Pueblo communities in the Southwest, and while pottery is still made for practical purposes, it is also commonly produced for the art market. Since the time of the Ancestral Puebloans, pottery has been made predominantly by women. The pots are created from natural clay using a coil method; they are hand-painted and then fired outdoors. Designs vary from one Pueblo to another, but many symbols and motifs are shared by the Pueblos. An impressive survey of more than 100 pieces of historic Pueblo pottery, Grounded in Clay is remarkable for the fact that its content has been selected by Pueblo community members. Rather than relying on Anglo-American art historical interpretations, this book foregrounds Native American voices and perspectives. More than 60 participants from 21 Pueblo communities in the Southwest - among them potters and other artists, as well as writers, curators and community leaders - chose one or two pieces from the collections of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Vilcek Collection in New York. They were then given the freedom to express their thoughts in whichever written form they wished, prose or poem. Exhibition: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, USA (31.07.2022 - 28.05.2023) / Vilcek Foundation & Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (13.07.2023 - 04.06.2024) / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (2024) / Saint Louis Art Museum, USA (2025).

Alternative Title

Spirit of Pueblo pottery

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Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective and held at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, July 30, 2022-May 29, 2023, the Vilcek Foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 13, 2023-June 2, 2024, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 27, 2024-January 19, 2025, and at the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 9-June 1, 2025.
Published in association with the Vilcek Foundation and the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Elysia Poon -- Asserting Indigenous intellect into the collection / Joseph Aguilar -- Clay stories / Nora Naranjo Morse -- Map: contemporary Pueblo communities of the Southwest -- Catalogue -- Afterword: amplifying Native voices / Rick Kinsel -- About the Pueblo Pottery Collective -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.
Pueblo Pottery Collective members: Dr. Joseph Aguilar -- Albert Alvidrez -- Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo) -- Jade Begay (Tay tsu'geh Oweenge/Tesuque) -- Camille Bernal (Taos) -- LeeAndrea Bernal Trujillo (Taos Pueblo) -- Diane Bird (Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo) -- Dr. Christina M. Castro (Taos Pueblo, Jemez Pueblo, Chicana) -- Tony R. Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo) -- Clarence Cruz/Khaayay (Tewa/Ohkay Owingeh) -- Patrick Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh) -- Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo) -- Max Early -- Timothy Edaakie (Zuni Pueblo) -- Cliff Fragua -- Juanita Fragua -- Lorraine Gala Lewis (Laguna, Taos, Hopi) -- Felicia Garcia -- Jason Garcia/Okuu Pin (Tewa/Santa Clara Pueblo) -- Ray Garcia -- Tara Gatewood (Isleta, Diné) -- David Gaussoin (Picuris, Diné) -- Tazbah Gaussoin (Picuris Pueblo, Diné/Navajo) -- Erin Monique Grant (Colorado River Indian Tribes) -- Marita Hinds (Tesuque Pueblo) -- Amy G. Johnson (Isleta, Diné/Navajo) -- Josephine Kie (Laguna) -- Rick Kinsel -- Ramson Lomatewama (Hopi) -- Jonathan Loretto (Jemez, Cochiti) -- Monica Silva Lovato -- Michelle Lowden -- Evone "Snowflake" Martinez -- Dr. Matthew J. Martinez/Tsadamuu Tsay (Yellow Turtle Shell) -- Seamus McKillop -- Diego Medina (Piro-Manso-Tiwa) -- Claudia Mitchell -- Mark Mitchell -- Bernard Mora (Tesuque Pueblo) -- Arlo Namingha (Tewa/Hopi) -- Dan Namingha (Tewa/Hopi) -- Michael Namingha (Hopi, Ohkay Owingeh) -- Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha'p'o Owingeh/Santa Clara) -- Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo, Diné/Navajo) -- Dr. Emily Schuchardt Navratil -- Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) -- Brandon Adriano Ortiz (Taos) -- Donna Pino (Tamaya/Santa Ana) -- Shirley Pino (Tamaya/Santa Ana) -- Elysia Poon -- L. Stephine "Steph" Poston (Pueblo of Sandia) -- Ulysses Reid -- Stephanie Riley -- Diego Romero -- Lynda Romero (Pojoaque) -- Martha Romero (Nambé) -- Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) -- Gary Roybal (San Ildefonso) -- Russell Sanchez (San Ildefonso) -- Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara) -- Melissa Talachy Romero (Pueblo of Pojoaque) -- Dominique Toya -- Monyssha Rose Trujillo (Cochiti, Santa Clara, Laguna, Jicarilla, Diné) -- Brian D. Vallo -- Lonnie Vigil (Tewa/Nambé) -- Samuel Villarreal Catanach (P'osuwaegeh Owingeh/Pueblo of Pojoaque) -- Kathleen Wall -- Nathan Youngblood (Santa Clara).

Call Number

E99.P9

ISBN

9781858946924
1858946921

OCLC

1292590456
on1292590456
SCSB-14531409

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Columbia University Libraries