Developed in partnership with the School for Advanced Research and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition features more than 100 historic and contemporary works of Native American pottery.
NEW YORK, July 13, 2023 (CarryOnHarry.com)
– The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to present Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, with dual presentations at the foundation’s Manhattan headquarters and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 2023 through June 2024. Developed in partnership with the School for Advanced Research (SAR), the exhibition includes more than 100 historical and contemporary works of Native American pottery originating in the Pueblo communities of what is now the southwestern United States.
The exhibition at the Vilcek Foundation opens July 13, 2023, and is on view through June 2, 2024, by appointment. Tours will be conducted by the foundation’s Native American Art Fellow, Povi Romero (Pojoaque, Cochiti, Santa Clara, and Ohkay Owingeh).
The works included in Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery were selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective from the Vilcek Collection and from the collections of the School for Advanced Research and the Indian Arts Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The collective, established specifically for the purpose of this exhibition, comprises more than 60 curators of diverse ages, backgrounds, and professions from more than 20 Native American communities, as well as non-Native museum professionals.
Curators wrote about the works they selected for the exhibition and its accompanying catalog. Grounded in Clay is enriched by their voices and the diversity of personal, historical, and cultural insights they bring to exhibition visitors’ understanding of these works. The curators’ essays range from recollections on the practices of gathering clay and preparing pigments to poetry and essays reflecting on the works and their meanings. Several curators wrote about the living traditions of pottery-making and today’s artists and makers whose work links the present and future of pottery-making to the rich and important history of pottery-making in Pueblo communities.
Felicia Garcia (Chumash) of the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center and of Native American Art Magazine,writes, “Exhibitions like this are really pushing the needle forward within the field and changing the way that Native art is presented within these spaces. Through this diverse collective of Native voices, we can see what is possible within these institutions when it comes to representing Native communities in a more honest, positive, and accurate way.”
As Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opens in New York, the Vilcek Foundation launches a digital experience, Pueblo Pottery: Stories in Clay, online. The foundation worked with Pentagram to develop the experience, which serves to highlight and expand on the curatorial insights that make Grounded in Clay so unique, and to bring these insights to a wider audience. Users can navigate three-dimensional views of selected works of pottery that were captured using photogrammetry with the support of foundation partners at Cortina Productions and Forum One.
The Vilcek Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation for the arts and sciences. The foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia. The mission of the foundation was inspired by the couple’s respective careers in biomedical science and art history. Since 2000, the foundation has awarded over $7 million in prizes to foreign-born individuals and has supported organizations with over $6 million in grants.
The Vilcek Foundation is a private operating foundation, a federally tax-exempt nonprofit organization under IRS Section 501(c)(3). To learn more, please visit vilcek.org.
Washington, DC, November 28, 2025 –(CarryOnHarry.com)– CryptaBox, an independent electronic music project exploring the intersection of digital aesthetics, cyber-culture, and modern sound design, has released a new official music video for the track “A Coded Sunrise” from the latest album Digital Balance.
The new video blends atmospheric cyber-visuals, glitch-art elements, and dynamic motion to reflect the sonic identity of the track – a fusion of ambient textures, industrial pulses, and futuristic electronic rhythm structures. “A Coded Sunrise” represents the project’s signature sound: a balance between algorithmic precision and emotional depth.
Watch the official music video: https://youtu.be/DiqUOV1HPjQ
The release continues CryptaBox’s artistic direction, focusing on digital symbolism, human-machine interaction, and the evolution of consciousness in a technology-driven world. The album Digital Balance consists of multiple tracks inspired by themes of transformation, digital expression, and the search for harmony in an increasingly accelerated reality.
Listen to and download the full album Digital Balance: https://soundcloud.com/cryptabox
CryptaBox emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to creativity — combining music, visual art, and experimental forms of digital storytelling. Each release aims to expand the conceptual space of electronic music while staying accessible to a wide audience.
Santa Clarita, CA, November 26, 2025 –(CarryOnHarry.com)– On Friday, November 28, Loveforce International will release two new Digital Music Singles. One of the new releases will be a Country Western Christmas song. The other new release will be the Radio edit of a song it released previously.
The new Digital Music Single release by Ami Cannon is entitled “Daddy’s Coming Home For A Country Christmas”. It is a Christmas song with an Indie, Singer-Songwriter, Country & Western feel. Instrumentally it combines a bass, drums, electric guitar and a steel pedal guitar. It combines the instruments with a melody and Inspirational Holiday lyrics that tell a heartfelt story of a mother telling her children that their Daddy is coming home for Christmas.
The new Digital Music Single by Billy Ray Charles is entitled “I Treat My Woman Better Than I Treat My Wife” Radio Edit. It is a happy, energetic Blues song that can be described as is a cross between Louisiana Shuffle Blues and Southern Soul. It has a happy, energetic feel and a lively beat that is meant to get people moving.
Lyrically, it is a serio-comic story about a guy that has both a wife and a girl friend.
“We have two really strong releases this week,” said Loveforce International CEO Mark Thomas. “We have one song that kicks off ‘A Loveforce Christmas’ with three more different kind of Christmas songs following next month, and a radio edit of very catchy song,” he said. “All told, listeners should be happy with this day after Thanksgiving happy pair of releases,” he continued.
The pair of new Digital Music Singles will be released to Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook, Claro Musica, iHeart Radio, iTunes, Deezer, KK Box, Boomplay, Media Net, Touchtones, Soundtrack by Twitch, Snapchat, NetEase, Anghami, TikTok, Resso, Flo, Audio Mack, Kuack, Pretzel, Gio Saavan, Yandex and Pretzel.
For further information, contact Evan Lovefire at (661) 523-4954.
