Education

“In the past, Pueblo art has been a slowly changing continuum.” As a category, it was created by Western civilization. Today, even in the West, what can and cannot be considered art is far from being a consensus.

In spite of the inadequacy of the term, many Indigenous artistic pieces have had and continue to have an impact on the sensitivity and curiosity of all viewers in all cultures.

A certain paternalistic conception towards Native arts continues to exist. To some, traditional arts are considered a lesser art form, one in which the artisan simply reproduces the patterns without creating anything new. Such a perspective does not take into consideration the fact that this kind of production does not exist apart from time and cultural dynamics. Moreover, the plasticity of the work is the result of the confluence of collective and individual conceptions and questions, even though they do not stress individuality.

The Poeh Museum mission maintains this aesthetic order, its link to other realms of thought, which constitute means of communication – among persons, peoples and worlds – and forms of conceiving, comprehending and mirror the social and cosmological order.