What if we were not catapulted into modernity, and into the thinking that whatever is native is ‘old’ and needs to be ‘discarded’?

The Pottery Institute started with the curiosity to unveil the artistic past of our ancestors, and the remarkable ways they have lived in harmany with mother nature; protecting it and sustaining their livelihoods through it.

For the Hausa people of Nigeria who have lost most of their cultural heritage to both western influences and social exposure to other societies, the Institute serves as a bridge to the past and present of a people in transition to reclaim their socio-cultural values and ethnic identity.