Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery

Made literally from land, Pueblo pottery is one of America’s most enduring art forms, and the innovative exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery connects a remarkable group of Pueblo ceramics to contemporary Indigenous knowledge.

Showing at the Saint Louis Art Museum from March 7 to Sept. 14, 2025, the exhibition features more than 100 clay works with a range of forms, surface treatments and materials. Dating from precontact to the present day, vessels and sculptures represent communities spanning from New Mexico’s Río Grande Pueblos to Ysleta del Sur in West Texas to the Hopi tribe of Arizona.

Grounded in Clay is a collaborative exhibition curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective, organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation and hosted by the Saint Louis Art Museum.