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Pottery by Osa Jun 22, 2025

Today's #Juneteenth celebration #clay workshop was such a fun way to pass cultural knowledge to the next generation. Kids learned coil building and were taught how pottery skills were traditionally passed down through the family by women to their daughters, nieces and granddaughters in Nigeria as well as many other cultures around the world, including those Indigenous to the Americas. And of course, everyone got a chance to play the udu. #pottery #ceramics #KidsArt #KaaboClay

Pottery by Osa Jun 17, 2025

I’ll be celebrating #Juneteenth with another edition of Rhythms of Clay at an Arts Festival hosted by the Westcoast Black Theater Troupe in Sarasota, Florida. Once again, we’ll be teaching Black youth about the udu, a #Nigerian clay drum. They’ll have the opportunity to make a large drum collectively and create their own small percussion instruments from #clay. Materials provided by #KaaboClay and Highwater Clays of Florida. Happy Juneteenth everyone! #pottery #ceramics #BlackHistory

Pottery by Osa Jun 5, 2025

#MutualAid Pottery Raffle! A #KaaboClay member is preparing for a critical, life-saving surgery. Artist Kenya Moffett-Garner will be unable to work for a month while she recovers and needs our collective support.

Please donate to her fundraiser: https://gofund.me/e010827c

And then email your donation receipt to [email protected] to entered a raffle to win this Earth Tone pitcher. Winner will be selected at random & announced on Sunday night. US only because of shipping.

Pottery by Osa Jun 4, 2025

“Between Starshine and Clay: Ceramics Across Diaspora, Land, and Lineage”

This will be the title of my solo exhibition at the Art & History Museum at Maitland in 2027. They’ve also requested that part of the exhibition features work by members of #KaaboClay, the Black #clay art collective & mutual aid network I founded in 2021. What an incredible opportunity to shape clay culture! I’m very excited.

I also want to share the poem the title is from, by #LucileClifton.

Pottery by Osa May 25, 2025

Today’s the day: #KaaboClay’s biggest fundraiser sale of the year! On this anniversary of George Floyd’s unjust death, we commemorate the tragic event that sparked a movement. This is an opportunity to show that we are unwavering in our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in all realms of life, including the arts. See my past posts for more info on who we are and why we exist. Shop our sale here: www.kaaboclay.org/shop (US only). #pottery #ceramics #BlackArt #DEI #BLM

Pottery by Osa May 22, 2025

I made a #FaceJug for the first time since 2019 and I’m donating it to the #KaaboClay fundraiser that begins this Sunday.

Face jugs are a #ceramic expression of the American South brought here by enslaved Africans (specifically Congolese, according to scholars).

The #terracotta heads of the Ife Empire are part of the artistic legacy of Yoruba people of Nigeria.

With this piece, I draw on the wisdom and ingenuity of our ancestors to make an offering to the next generation of creators.

Pottery by Osa May 9, 2025

This is the piece I’m donating for the #KaaboClay Award later this month. It’s one of the first I made after developing my #WildClay #TerraSigillata surfaces. In making this type of work, I feel I’m bringing together my reverence for #nature and admiration of #AfricanDesign elements.

A couple of years ago, I taught a workshop at Harvard Ceramics alongside my mentor #DavidMacDonald called “Africa Adorned” named after the photo book by Angela Fisher. I glance at it regularly for inspiration.

Pottery by Osa Jan 20, 2025

Today, we celebrate Dr. King’s legacy and share the history of the udu, a Nigerian clay drum, with local youth. Hands-on clay activity and live musical performance for Freedom School families and the greater community in Sarasota, Florida. Sponsored by http://kaaboclay.org

#mlk #clay #kidsart #music #africandrum #nigeria #music #blackmastodon #kaaboclay

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