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Zuzia Ceramics
@zuziaceramics.bsky.social
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Pottery nerd making functional decorative pottery for daily use. Portland, Oregon.
@zuziaceramics at IG, zuziaceramics.bigcartel.com.

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Shirley, our gas kiln, is about to be loaded. 🙌 #pottery #potterysky #ceramics #potterystudio #reductionfiring #potteryprocess #portlandoregon #portlandpotter #art #pdx
October 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Hard slab building! Learning/trying some new stuff. Greenware cone 10 Lincoln 60 fireclay #pottery #potteryprocess #ceramics #decorativeceramics #clay #art #sculpture #potterysky #artist #abstract #form #portland #portlandceramics
An asymmetrical curved, four-sided form in greenware (unfired) clay with hard edges, standing just over a foot tall
September 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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About to handle some cups/same cups with handles #pottery #ceramics #clay #functionalceramics #smallbatchpottery #wheelthrown #potterysky #portland #pdx
Six thrown and trimmed demitasse cups in beige-green clay with pronounced throwing rings The same six cups with generous looped handles on a work table in front of a pink-tinted window
September 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Smol red bird and black vines #pottery #ceramics #handmade #smallbatchpottery #mug #mugoftheday #art #clay #portlandpottery #clayart #potterysky
A finished cup in speckled off white clay with a red stylized bird design surrounded by black leaves and vines
September 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Getting a little obsessive with this design #pottery #ceramics #potterysky #design #originalart #functionalceramics #cats #wip
A greenware mug painted with blue and orange Scandi style cats with inlaid botanical patterns
September 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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A fun before and after of a #cone10reduction fired small vase. First layer is Steven Hill matte turquoise, then Anderson Ranch oribe, and the squiggles are Candace Black. I love how these glazes interact. #ceramics #pottery #potterysky #potter #wheelthrown #portland #pdx #portlandpottery
Side by side before and after. In the first photo the base glazes are pale green and beige and the black glaze is dark rust red. The after shows hues of pale copper green, yellow rust, dark turquoise, and moss black
September 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Shino glazed bowl from last week’s reduction firing

#pottery #clay #cone10 #glazing #shino #ceramics #functionalpottery #portlandpottery #pdx #artist #clayart #clay #wheelthrown #minimalism
Shino glazed bowl with brushed turquoise accent. Though this is a “white” shino the colors range from bronze to deep burnished red
September 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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I’ve thrown many platters but I haven’t handbuilt them before now. 🙂
#clay #handbuilding #pottery #design #potterysky #ceramic #ceramicart #functionalpottery #pdx #portlandoregon
A clay platter, unfired and unglazed, loosely oval or leaf shaped with thin clay bands “dividing” the platter with loose, easy organic lines
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Soooo I’ve been taking a hand-building class.

#pottery #potterysky #clay #ceramics #handbuilding #maker #portland #ceramicart #coral #pdx
A coil built ceramic greenware oval bowl with cutouts meant to resemble coral
August 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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I ❤️ SOCIALISM

One of several mugs for a fundraiser

#wip #pottery #ceramics #mugoftheday #mugshot #potterysky #wheelthrown #ceramicart #pottersofbluesky #portland #pdx
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Planters are satisfying. #ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky #portlandpottery #pdx #clay
Two freshly thrown midsized planters in brown clay on a shelf
August 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Facts! But since this is my pottery account here’s the studio cat visiting the handbuilding class #cats #studiocat #ceramics #pottery #potterysky #hamdbuilding
A handsome tabby cat with with a white chest blaze and white socks walks on the canvas work table among the pots demanding skritches
August 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This platter came out of the cone 10 reduction kiln. I am so happy with the glaze combination I’m trying it next on other clay bodies #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #functionalpottery #potterysky #reductionfiring #pottersofbluesky #clay #glaze #green #design
Platter glazed with a matte turquoise glaze and shiny moss green overlay, with splatters of black, on a red tablecloth with an olivw branch pattern A small tabby cat photobombs a dining table with a vase of flowers and pottery on it Close up of platter edge showing the transition from shiny green to matte, with lemons on the platter
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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And after the glaze firing. I’m pleased; the lines and definition are sharp and the design works well with this speckled clay body.

#pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #functionalpottery #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #clay #mugs #mugshot #design #flowers #peony #beforeandafter #clayartist #portland
August 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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More demitasses, just out of the kiln tonight. I love making these.
#pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #functionalpottery #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #clay #mugs #mugshot #design #scandi #decoration #handmade #smallbatchpottery
Three demitasses in speckled clay with stylized designs of flowers and birds
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Large bowl in progress. #wip #wheelthrown #pottery #ceramics #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #portlandpottery
Big newly thrown wide shallow bowl Big newly thrown wide shallow bowl still on the wheel
August 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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This guy has been glazed with a white shino glaze with brushed turquoise matte and fired in the cone 10 gas kiln. #pottery #ceramics #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #wheelthrownandaltered #art #abstract #portlandpottery #pdx
A small pottery bottle shaped and altered to look like a stone. The shino glaze is mostly orange with flashes of white, accented with blue-green strokes of turquoise matte
August 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I think it is. It’s a nice clay body to work with and doesn’t bloat at cone 6 like some other dark clays. Here’s a “no filter” pic from some stuff I made with it recently
A bottle and three bowls on a wood table; black clay, iridescent blue glaze
August 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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#WIP. These peonies are relaxing to paint. #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #functionalpottery #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #clay #mugs #mugshot #design #originalart #handpainted #art #flowers #bloomscrolling
July 31, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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After the kiln. I could not be happier. #pottery #reductionfiring #kiln #functionalpottery #design #minimalism #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #pdx #portlandoregon #glaze
A platter glazed in a pale matte lichen green with mossy green splashed over the bottom half and black splatter A wide shallow bowl glazed half with a pale lichen green with rust tinges at the edges; half with a glossy moss green. Loose abstract black splatters over the top
July 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A tabby cat glares, shelob-like, from the top of a cat tree
July 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I like posting #wip, both because ceramics — like any act of creating — is imperfect, and to demystify these processes. Here, I’m painting, carving away, and (sometimes) painting again. The pencil marks and uneven surfaces will disappear on the finished pieces. #pottery #ceramics #potterysky #design
Diner mug greenware, painted in underglaze with a stylized mystical hare in teal and yellow, a pumpkin and big yellow crescent moon Coffee cup, greenware, painted with a stylized Scandinavian influenced design of teal birds and orange and black flowers
July 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Black and white cat mug. #caturday #mug #pottery #functionalpottery #ceramics #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #alternating #bluskyartshow
Black and white photo of a mug with a stylized cat painted in black and white stripes
July 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I am *hopefully* getting these dynamic abstracts into the cone 10 gas kiln being fired tonight. After pics coming soon, praise be to the kiln gods.

#pottery #potterysky #pottersofbluesky #functionalpottery #ceramics #pdx #portlandpottery
Unfired 12 inch platter glazed with a dynamic layered pattern like three tall hills over half; a squiggle of black on one side overlaps both colors Unfired bowl with a dynamic layered pattern and squiggles of black accent
July 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Yes! I did the same. Here are a couple of plates from that sesh (my niece and her friends were in college so got the knack of the transfers pretty quickly)
Two white stoneware plates on a kiln shelf with a glaze transfer design of bees (on one) and an octopus on the other
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM