Can artwork save your life? In keeping with Virgil Ortiz, an artist from the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico, it may well. For Virgil, making pottery with conventional supplies and strategies is a type of remedy, a elementary expression of his tradition throughout generations. Virgil describes how the method itself brings him a way of function and connection to his household, together with the prayers he recites earlier than he and his nephews dig clay from their ancestral lands. Given this residing legacy, it was a major second for Virgil to go to The Met for the primary time and see his tradition represented within the Charles and Valerie Diker Assortment of Native American artwork. Tune in to listen to his story about artwork’s connection to belonging.

Visitor: Virgil Ortiz, artist and trainer

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