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Pottery by Osa
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her)
Gulf Coast Florida
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I’m offering this #virtualworkshop for the second time on Saturday, October 25. If you’ve ever had an interest in working with #clay, I hope you’ll join me. #ceramics used to be a free creative medium but has become an expensive hobby. In this workshop, I […]

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Just finished working on some pages for a kids' art #zine we're making for upcoming community #kwanzaa celebrations. Each child will be given a gift bag with zines, stickers, clay and other little art supplies. Last year, I just attended the celebration and […]

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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The handful of you who also follow my gardening account @PermaSolarPotter know that I’ve begun #spinning native cotton. I love plants in the hibiscus family and was given permission to gather some seeds from a plant at the community garden last spring. I […]

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November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Twinning in the sun 🌞 with my favorite mug from this collection. I did not consciously dress like the mug but considering the fact that I mostly wore neutral tones before I started working with #wildclay sig, it’s safe to say that the clay is speaking through […]

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November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
TGIF! I just finished writing up my newsletter that will go out tomorrow and I started it by mentioning that my pieces for this month’s collection had to share kiln space with a fair number of pieces by kids & students as well as my larger sculptural […]

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November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@DavidM_yeg The great thing about kids as they were invested in the process more than the finished product. Some took their pieces with them, some balled them back up after they were done playing with the clay. I offered to fire the mugs for the boy who made them. He is deeply interested in […]
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November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
These photos are from last weekend. I provided a free Clay Play table for an event at the local skatepark. My husband’s a skateboarder & skatepark designer so I got linked in through his network. It was so sweet, fun and, best of all, relaxing. A few kids got […]

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November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This was my student’s first time making glaze. Exciting! They’ve finished building their pieces which are now ready to be bisque fired and we’ve made a small amount of glaze to test on little tiles before we apply it to the larger pieces. I referred them to […]

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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Before I can switch gears and begin on my smoke fired pots, I’ve got to finish up this last batch. It’ll be a mixture of smaller sized tableware, a couple of lamps and some larger pieces for an upcoming show. I’m in the carving and decorating phase of the […]

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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@mayintoronto thanks for the kind words, May!
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Today's output: A shelf for my pottery wheel to hold tools and water and stuff. All made of scrap wood from under the house. Should make tool management a bit easier. The whole thing lifts off for ease of cleaning.

#pottery #diy
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here is the original #clay. We found it in a construction site in Venice, just south of us. They were digging a retention pond beside a new road. The construction is now complete and the pond is filled with water, but for a moment the site was kind of like a […]

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November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Last year, I sent some #clay that I collected to the University of West Georgia Archaeology Dept and they just sent me the results of their experiment. They tested how the addition of sponge spicules (or fired sea sponge) affects the strength of the fired […]

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November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#rocketkiln test fire. No pots in the kiln, just a quick inaugural burn. It’s always fun to watch the flame travel downward and then horizontally into the J-tube.

Firing at night helps me see gaps between any of the bricks since they may have shifted over […]

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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Every potter is a bit of a pyromaniac. As soon as the temperature drops below 60°F, it’s fire season. I have an entire body of work that I only make in the winter because I fire #pottery in my outdoor woodfire kiln. #permaculture geeks will love this: I built […]

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November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A reminder, just in case: This is a great time to support your local #foodbank if you haven’t already. #snap #hunger #foodinsecurity
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just a middle aged woman getting her first pair of progressive lenses. I’ve been slightly nearsighted since I was a kid but in recent years it’s been getting more difficult to read up close. I would have just grabbed a pair of drugstore magnifiers but my eyes […]

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November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Listening while I work:

“What does it mean to move like a river and to live in flow with the world around us? In this episode, Willow is joined by one of the world’s most celebrated nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, to follow the many forms of flow—of water, of language, and of life itself.” […]
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November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@steggy mine too 🩵
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I’m feeling refreshed, inspired by the seascape that surrounds me and ready to create this week. This is an old photo from one of those days when the Gulf is so clear, it looks like a swimming pool.

I’ll be ending the week with a workshop for #ceramics students at St. John’s River State College.
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@ted thank you for signing up. Once you get the chance to watch it, I’m happy to answer any questions.
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@ted Thank you! This bowl is coil built, not wheel thrown. I cut the wave pattern at the softer leather hard phase.
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Lajok: The Night Dancer" by filmmaker @dilmandila is a spooky revenge fantasy based on Ugandan (Luo) folklore. Dance is used to possess and control but once the spell is broken, the same power can be used for payback.

Watch: https://makertube.net/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW

If you enjoy this […]
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November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I gifted this bowl to my mother in law for her birthday and now she’ll get to decide how it will be used. She and my father in law live on the Gulf Coast of Texas and love boating, fishing, and all things marine related. Their home is mostly decorated in white and blue. They are also both water […]
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November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I started with another Ringling College of Art student a couple of weeks ago. They don’t have a #ceramics program at their school so whenever a student approaches me with an interest in #clay, I provide a free 6 week studio intensive where they get the entire […]

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October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM