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Pottery by Osa
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her)
Gulf Coast Florida
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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 23
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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A promotional graphic in portrait orientation. The background is a photo of my hand holding a lump of dark brown clay above my lap. You can see my green skirt below and the bottom of my striped top at the bottom of the frame. The workshop title “Clay Is For Everyone” appears in all caps at the top of the page. Near the bottom is the text “a virtual workshop” and “Saturday, October 25, 2025 1-3pm Eastern”
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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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A zine page. The background is green and the text is white and handwritten. The title reads "How to make a bowl from clay" laid over a photo closeup of my hands holding an unfired red clay bowl. Underneath it says Kuumba in Kwanzaa colors: red, green, black (and yellow.) Underneath the text reads: "Kwanzaa celebrates creativity, community and working with our hands, just like shaping a bowl from clay. When we make something ourselves, we honor the spirit of Kuumba--using our imagination to bring something good into the world. As you for your bowl think of it as a small piece of tradition: building, creating and sharing with others. A green page with white handwritten text, decorated with red, black and green triangles. It contains steps 1-4 of making a clay bowl. There are four closeup photos of my hands performing each step. The text reads: take a small amount of clay and roll it between your palms to make a ball. Lightly pound the ball with your fist to flatten it into a "cookie."
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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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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My hand holding three homemade spindles. The two on the left feature ceramic whorls while the one on the right has a circular wooden whorl. The wood has a greenish hue. The ceramic whorl on the far left is circular with a scalloped edge. It is off-white with some light olive green detail. The center whorl is aqua in color with a narrow tapered top that flows downward into a wide undulating “skirt”. Each whorl is affixed to a wooden dowel with a small metal hook at the top.
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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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A square photo of me standing in the sun in front of my studio holding a mug with pink, orange and olive green earth tones, with a abstract plant motif, and the interior glazed glossy chartreuse green. I am wearing a light coral mesh shirt , chartreuse green long beaded earnings and bright green shorts. A small cactus palm can be seen in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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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A collection of intricately designed ceramic pottery, including a teapot and several mugs, showcasing various warm colors and geometric patterns. The pottery is arranged on a neutral brown background.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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@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
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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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Two children are engaged in crafting with clay at an outdoor table. One child, wearing a blue shirt, is focused on shaping the clay, while the other child, in a white shirt with sparkly designs, is also working on her creation. A child’s hand is shaping a clay mug using a blue sculpting tool. The mug is partially finished, displaying a handle and an unfinished surface. The setting includes a table with a patterned cloth and hints of a lively outdoor environment in the background. A young person wearing a maroon beanie is focused on shaping clay at a table, while another child beside them works with clay as well. They are outdoors at a skate park with tents and other people in the background.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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@firesidefedi I nominate @JoBlakelyArt
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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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A person looking down, writing in a note book, wearing a dust mask. They are surrounded by glaze ingredients and bottles of terra sig, a scale and a cup filled with white powder (glaze ingredients.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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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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A small batch of bone-dry pots sitting on a wooden shelf. Intricately decorated jugs, jars, vases and vases are clustered together with a light blue wall in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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@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
A photo of an old dirty pottery wheel with a wooden shelf built around the top metal splash pan. There is the bottom half of a 3L bottle of orange juice filled with dirty water, and a blue tub spattered with clay mud.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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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Closeup of a cross section of bluish gray clay with streaks of rust.
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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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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About two dozen dark gray bars of clay lined up in rows, sitting on a wooden table in what seems to be an institutional setting (school lab). A small, orange-brown, fired rectangle of clay being held by a three-point bend test machine. It's metal with two control panels attached to wires. Two graduated cylinders. One filled with dry, pulverized gray clay and the other filled with black pulverized burned sea sponge (sponge spicules). A poster summarizing students' research results titled "Evaluating the Performance Characteristics of Spiculate-Tempered Pottery." There are four blue squares, one in each corner, filled with text with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Materials, Discussion. The rest of the poster is filled photos of test materials, microscopic images, graphs and tables. If you're really interested in the entire contents of this image, message me and I will send you a pdf with readable text.
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#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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A dark closeup photo of the rocket kiln firing chamber. Pieces of wood protrude from the top of a square soft brick furnace glowing from the fire within. Looking down at the firebox into the flame below.
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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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One of my smoke fired pots collaged on top of a photo of a prescribed or controlled burn in Sarasota County. The pot is a gradient of tones from terracotta to grayish black. It has a wide mouth and narrow foot—a very deep bowl. The lip is curved and a series of ridges follows the curve of the rim all the way down to the foot. The background shows a brush fire with gray smoke filing the air above. A small black bowl sits above the furnace of the rocket kiln as a fire burns below. The bowl was smoke fired to blacken it. The furnace is square and formed with off-white fire brick. Scrap would is partially visible in the burning chamber. The bowl is simple but well formed and features two scalloped decorative ridges on the exterior surface.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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
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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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A selfie I took sitting at the optometrist office wearing a new pair of glasses. They are somewhat large and cat eye shaped with a brown and black pattern that almost looks like animal print but isn’t. The white price tag is still a fixed to the frame. I’m a black woman with shoulder length locs wearing dangly earrings and a black and tan sweater.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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
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@steggy mine too 🩵
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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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.
My hand holds a decorative ceramic cup above the surface of clear turquoise water, with light reflections and bubbles visible in the water. The cup is off white with carved geometric leaf-shaped patterns, with aqua color accents that match the water.
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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@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
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@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
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"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
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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
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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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The student’s hands forming a pot with a soft organic form out of brown clay. The pot sits on a small piece of cardboard on top of a work table. A beam of light shines softly onto the table, pot and the makers hands. A light blue wall and shelving are partially visible in the background. The student taking a photo of the pot they worked on in the previous photo. Various objects sit on the table along with the pot; a plastic water bottle, a ceramic bowl, pieces of clay, cardboard and tools. The background is a pottery studio with a light blue walls, lots of shelving and a window.
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM