Form and Relation

de Jami C. Powell, Hood Museum of Art Staff

""Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics" was published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title held at the Hood Museum of Art from March 14 through August 9, 2020. A loan exhibition supported the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative from the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation, Form and Relation will showcase the versatility of ceramics and the many forms it takes through the hands of six Indigenous artists from various regions within what is now the United States. Featuring the innovative and critical works of Anita Fields, Courtney Leonard, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ruben Olguin, Rose Simpson, and Roxanne Swentzell, Form and Relation aims to shift expectations, introduce new forms, and demonstrate how ceramics are capable of holding the complexity of concepts like community, identity, gender, land, extraction, language, and responsibility"--