Museum of International Folk Art

Acoma Pueblo Figurative Pottery / Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026

June 7, 2026 - November 30, 2026

Gallery of Conscience

This exhibition is a community-curated project that focuses on figurative pottery from Acoma Pueblo. The show will examine ancestral Puebloan precursors to figuration in clay, as well as how the rise of tourism and the market for Pueblo pottery at the turn of the 20th century shaped the development of this practice. Included will be 80-100 objects with a focus on Acoma Pueblo women artists who have been at the heart of this tradition.

The exhibition is the Museum of International Folk Art’s contribution to the national Craft in America’s initiative, Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, which marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Handwork strives to tell some of the untold or undertold stories of American craft, including Indigenous art, calling for a more complex and diverse understanding of the handmade in the nation from past to present.