However, she adds, ceramics is the way Fletcher managed to keep her culture alive. “She is really a stand-alone artist, and innovative in that it is a woman working with ceramics,” Laver says.

Revisions to 1990’s NAGPRA legislation mandate museums get tribal permission to exhibit sacred objects The Denver Art Museum on November 30, 2022 in Denver, Colorado.

At the ceremony, Li Tinghuai contributed the celeste glaze, three-foot wine goblet with a bow string pattern, a Ruzhou ceramic product, to Yan’an, a sacred place of Chinese revolution.

The Denver Art Museum this month removed a case of Native American ceramics from public view in response to new federal regulations governing the exhibition of sacred Indigenous objects. The revisions ...