#OllasByOsa are back in stock. I have a batch that are ready to ship. When those sell out, you may still purchase made-to-order ollas that take 4-6 to complete. Happy #gardening!
https://potterybyosa.com/collections/ollas-by-osa
Pottery by Osa
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her)
Gulf Coast Florida
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
#AmySherald "American Sublime" is moving to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in May. The imagery in this triptych is giving me a lot to consider! https://high.org/exhibition/amy-sherald-american-sublime/ #Art #BlackArt #painting #OilPainting
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Putting the finishing touches on my slideshow presentation about #Florida clay history for this Saturday and I'm mentioning the ceramics program at UF Gainesville. @Linda_Arbuckle@mastodon.social taught there from the early 1990s until 2015 and I'm mentioning her work and impact briefly in the presentation. I hadn't taken the time to look at her work in a long time and I'd forgotten just how great it is. https://www.lindaarbuckle.com/arbuckle_image_archive.htm #pottery #ceramic
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
I’m making a custom clay body for my upcoming workshop using #WildClay I collected just south of where I live, and combining it with a midrange commercial clay to give it the durability it lacks on its own. The sample on the right was fired to over 2100°F, just under its melting point, and is still fragile and easily broken. The color transformation is lovely, though. I’m excited to give workshop participants a unique opportunity to work with local clay.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
This Saturday, I’m partnering with Reflections of Manatee museum in Bradenton #Florida, offering a hands-on coil building pottery workshop as well as a slideshow presentation on FL clay history from geological formation to contemporary art. No previous clay experience necessary. Details including signup on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2326242227841963
#Sarasota #Tampa #StPetersburg #crafts #history #pottery #clay
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
@bosquebill@techhub.social it makes you realize why our bigger problems can’t be resolved. At least BC figured it out.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
First swim of the year and the conditions were perfect. #TimelineCleanse
#Florida #GulfCoast #beach #nature
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
I’ve had a humbling week in the studio. After 13 years of #WheelThrowing, I sat down at my wheel on Monday and couldn’t manage to successfully complete a single form. There’s typically a large gap between throwing cycles for me because my decorating process is long, so by the time I get back around to throwing, I’m out of practice. I took it as an opportunity to return to the basics and seek advanced wheel throwing tips. Each day has been better than the last. #pottery
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
I’m feeling increased motivation to use my creativity to continue to connect with like-minded Floridians who love our state in spite of its obvious flaws. The best way to do this locally has been to volunteer with groups that oppose our government’s cruelty and build alternative spaces of care for vulnerable communities. It takes a special kind of conviction to carry on this work in such an unsupportive and hostile context.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Thank you to everyone who’s donated to Friends of the Everglades. We’ve raised about $800 so far—much more than I would have been able to give on my own. One more day to go. #fundraiser #ICE #AlligatorAlcatraz #Florida #EnvironmentalActivism
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
"I don't want to return to the past, but I want to bring the forgotten wisdom of the past into the present."
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
I'm raffling this oversized mug to support Friends of the Everglades, a #Florida environmentalist group who have been fighting alongside the Miccosukee Tribe against #AlligatorAlcatraz #ICE detention center in court. Donate any amount and email your receipt to potterybyosafundraiser@gmail.com. I will pick a winner at random on Wednesday at 5pm. US only, please.
https://www.everglades.org/stop-alligator-alcatraz/
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
I’m making terra sigillata from the clay I collected from my birthplace last summer. I’ve been invited to a show called “Clay as Place: The Transient Object” and it reminds me that my #WildClay collection is a mirror of my experience with transience—moving, touring and visiting. But when I went and collected that clay from the duck pond in Virginia, I could be certain that it’s the same earth that was there when I was four years old, throwing the birds stale bread.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
My #zine & #pottery making worlds collided in these commemorative plates I created for The Women’s Table, a special event at the #Orlando Museum of Art inspired by Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party. 30 women and non-binary ceramic artists were asked to make plates honoring women who have inspired us. I chose Zora Neale Hurston and Courtney Love. More info in the #alttext. Opening event details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-table-preview-tickets-1982796976131
#Florida #art #museum #WomensHistoryMonth
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
In the before picture, the mug has been painted with terra sig (from Louisiana, Virginia and Ontario) and is unglazed. This is one of the pieces I decorated at the dining room table when it was too cold to be in my studio. #BeforeAndAfter #ceramics #pottery #WildClay
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.
Nigerian American studio potter (she/her) Gulf Coast Florida Tap “Media” for pottery content 👇🏾 Solar powered home & studio 🌞 I get verbose in the # alttext PFP: selfie. dark skinned Black woman with shoulder length locs wearing sunglasses. Blurred white beach sand and stormy sky background. Header: A collection of intricately designed pottery pieces, including jars, cups, and a lidded container collaged on top of photo of a multicolored clay deposit.