Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) is proud to announce that it will be hosting Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery as the headline program of the Center’s 50th anniversary year. The exhibit will be on display from March 20, 2026 through February 21, 2027. 

Organized by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the Vilcek Foundation, Grounded in Clay, a unique traveling exhibition featuring over 100 historic and contemporary works in clay, offers a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels that carry community-based knowledge and personal experience. Curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective, this landmark exhibition marks an important shift in the field for Pueblo artists and culture bearers to present these clay vessels to the public as understood through a Pueblo community lens. Grounded in Clay offers visitors a multivocal community dialogue through first-person stories and reflections. 

The IPCC welcomes the exhibition and pottery vessels back to the Southwest after a four-year national tour that included the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Vilcek Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Grounded in Clay’s public reception at the IPCC will be on March 21, 2026 from 5-8pm, followed by a “Meet a Grounded in Clay Curator” gallery talk on March 22, 2026, from 1-3pm.

The exhibition and its associated events are generously supported by the First Nations Development Institute and Noon Whistle Fund. Additionally, IPCC will be hosting a media day with information on Grounded in Clay and our 50th anniversary exhibit and programs.