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Hydrus Network 535 instal the new2/23/2024 ![]() The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style. In a radical sea change for museums, Mitchell is one of 68 Pueblo potters, artists and cultural leaders invited to largely organize “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first Native American exhibition there that has been community curated. Now she is helping to broaden the understanding of American art. “Our past and present become the future in the pottery.” Through her vessels, “the spirit of all those people is brought back to life,” she said. In her own work, Mitchell, 57, incorporates shards of pottery from previous generations that she finds along the road, grinding them into a powder to give her pots extra strength before firing. Lewis, a much-acclaimed potter who worked well into her 80s and whose hands, smooth and soft from years of clay, never lost their strong grip. She also thanks the women who came before her, especially her grandmother Lucy M. ![]() First she gives thanks to the Clay Mother - the Earth - in prayers and offerings that include a sprinkling of cornmeal, a small piece of turquoise and, always, water - the high desert’s most precious gift. Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready.
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