Ford Foundation Gallery Presents Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art – Preview

Ford Foundation Gallery Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art
Image: William Alfred Ismay (W. A. Ismay). Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery demonstration in England. 1970s. York Museums Trust. The W. A. Ismay Bequest, 2001. Photo: W. A. Ismay, © York Museums Trust.

WHEN:

September 10 – December 6, 2025

For more information visit the Ford Foundation Gallery website.

WHERE:

Ford Foundation Gallery
320 E 43rd St
New York, NY 10017

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

“...Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art brings together three generations of groundbreaking Black women artists whose work with clay explores the medium’s multilayered cultural and political significance. Featuring over fifty works across ceramics, film, photography, and archives, the exhibition draws connections between the legacy of renowned Nigerian potter Ladi Dosei Kwali (1925-1984) and contemporary artistic practice. Through these lines of influence and innovation, the show traces how Black women artists have transformed the field of ceramics over the past seventy years—disrupting conventions, challenging hierarchies, and expanding the possibilities of clay as a medium..."

Exhibiting Artists:

Halima Audu
Phoebe Collings-James
Jade de Montserrat
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Adebunmi Gbadebo
Ladi Kwali
Simone Leigh
Anina Major
Bisila Noha
Magdalene Odundo
Julia Phillips

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