| |  | | Workshop—Moche-Inspired Pottery with The Met Cloisters and Uptown Clay | Saturday, June 20, 10 am–5 pm
Meet in Gallery 1, Romanesque Hall
Create a Moche-inspired creature vessel based on artworks in Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas. Start out at The Met Cloisters for a tour of the exhibition, then walk as a group to Uptown Clay, where ceramics artist Vanesa Cabezas will lead the studio workshop. All participants will create their own vessel and fire their work in a kiln to be picked up at a later date.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas.
Fee: $250. All materials are provided. Note: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Registration closes Friday, June 19, 2026, or when registration is full.
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Gallery 001, Gallery 010, and Gallery 016
Set in the evocative atmosphere of The Met Cloisters, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas sheds light on a selection of works created on either side of the Atlantic Ocean between 500 and 1500 CE. The exhibition's exploration of hybrid creatures deepens our understanding of their apparent necessity among diverse peoples. In the Americas, a complex gold pendant by a Tairona artist of northern Colombia, depicting a confrontational figure with hands on hips, a crocodile-like head, and an enormous headdress, would have reflected and expressed the wearer's status and power. In Europe, ferocious dragons such as the one depicted on a monumental fresco from the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, Spain, took center stage to convey a multiplicity of meanings both sacred and profane.
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Images: Pottery workshop photo by Vanesa Cabezas | Tairona artist(s), Figure Pendant, Colombia, 900-1600 CE. Gold. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 (1991.419.31) | All other photos by Filip Wolak | | | |
