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Pottery by Osa
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her)
Gulf Coast Florida
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Had a couple of my friends’ kids over for a #pottery making session. I’ve known the boy for a year and a half now and I just met the girl for the first time at that skatepark event a couple of weeks ago. I bisque fired the mug she made and today she got to […]

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December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The purple coloration in the sand and clay at the park comes from the presence of manganese.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Another cool thing about Providence Canyon is there’s glitter and rainbows everywhere. At first I thought the rainbow water at the bottom for canyon was gasoline runoff but then noticed it was more concentrated wherever there was granulated mica. I looked it […]

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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We visited Providence Canyon State Park in #georgia for my birthday, which was on Thursday. The park has a disturbing origin story but the beauty of the strata below is undeniable. Earth is the original work of #art from which all of the art we create is […]

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December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saturday's "Clay Is for Everyone" virtual class went really well. I think it was a revelation for some to realize that the once-a-week community class model is not ideal for advancing your skills over time and can feel quite limiting. $200-300/mo is a lot to […]

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October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Photos from last Friday's #artisttalk at UUSRQ Lexow Gallery for "The Re-Enchantment of Nature," a showing of work by myself and digital collage artist Stephen White. This was my first opportunity to speak in person with a local audience since I began […]

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October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Even as I create larger statement pieces for upcoming shows, my functional ware is still the most important aspect of my work because of the way it exists in people’s homes and everyday lives. Here are a few pieces that have come out of the kiln over the past few weeks. #pottery #ceramics
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I already have more than enough #clay samples to keep me busy but somehow everywhere I went in #louisiana there seemed to be a pile of disturbed clay soil just waiting there for me to find. The most interesting was at the #lsu Lakes which they are currently […]

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October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Yesterday we took our family to our favorite #nature park in #louisiana. It was my 3 month old nephew’s very first hike and the first place I ever found #wildclay years ago when we lived in Baton Rouge.
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We flew to #louisiana to see family but made a quick stop to visit @archeaids and his wife Ann on the way from the airport. James gave us a quick pit firing demonstration, gifted me a sample of #clay from his yard and showed us different pots, clay samples […]

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October 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This vase was a custom order for a couple’s 9th wedding anniversary. They wanted something they could pass down to future generations and thought a ceramic piece would make a good commemorative heirloom. They mentioned their love for terracotta amaryllis, a […]

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October 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM