Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. Highlighting Pueblo voices and aesthetics, this traveling exhibition marks the first Native-curated exhibition on view at the MFAH. The presentation features more than 100 historical, modern, and contemporary items in...
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. Highlighting Pueblo voices and aesthetics, this traveling exhibition marks the first Native-curated exhibition on view at the MFAH. The presentation features more than 100 historical, modern, and contemporary items in clay.
Although Pueblo pottery has long been exhibited within the context of Eurocentric time lines and Western concepts of art and history, Grounded in Clay gives voice to the Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of more than 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities who selected and wrote about artistically and culturally distinctive pots from two significant Pueblo pottery collections: the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Vilcek Foundation in New York City.
The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery combines individual voices from Native communities where pots have been made and used for millennia into an Indigenous group narrative. The approach illuminates Pueblo history and contemporary life, redefining concepts of Native art, history, and beauty from within, and challenging stereotypes about Native peoples.
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What's on
Grounded in Clay (Starts on 20 October 2024)
Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples (Starts on 27 October 2024)
Gauguin in the World (Starts on 3 November 2024)
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, is in the Museum District, minutes from Downtown Houston and the Texas Medical Center. On 14 acres, you can explore over 70,000 artworks spanning 5,000 years and seven continents.
Inside three unique buildings, you'll find special exhibitions and permanent galleries featuring art from the Americas, Europe, Egypt, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Enjoy the urban sculpture garden, MFA Shop, Café Leonelli, Le Jardinier restaurant, and the Glassell School of Art with its rooftop city view.
Opening hours
Wednesday | 11:00 - 17:00 |
Thursday | 11:00 - 21:00 |
Friday | 11:00 - 21:00 |
Saturday | 11:00 - 18:00 |
Sunday | 12:30 - 18:00 |
Monday | Closed |
Tuesday | Closed |