Pottery by Osa

@potterybyosa
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Nigerian American studio potter (she/her)

Gulf Coast Florida

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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.

Websitehttps://www.potterybyosa.com
Gardening Accounthttps://mastodon.green/@PermaSolarPotter

Just shipped out these pieces for “Clay As Place: The Transient Object” at Red Lodge Clay Center, May 2026.

From my statement:

“As I decorate with these different clays, I am automatically transported back to the origins of the material. A small ball of #clay is a piece of a place that I can bring back home with me, into my studio, to create meaningful works that are then sent back out into the world—Clay  As Place, The Transient Object.”

#pottery #ceramics #art

@Infrapink @preservaAV

Thanks for the mention. Here are a few women and non-binary people I love following:

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#Ceramics by Linda Lighton:

"My work has mostly been based in organic forms from nature. Lately however a Mother's worries about the world has subsumed my reverence and glorifying of the natural world. I wonder at the glorification of violence and the elements that inflict them. Thus, flowers, pods and crystals have grown guns, gas pumps, bullets and lipsticks as the proliferation of war implements flower in our American lifestyle..."

https://www.lindalighton.com/

Linda Lighton

Linda Lighton
Chips vs. fries: I speak English fluently and yet I am always translating
Wole Olayinka immigrated from Nigeria to Calgary four years ago. When he speaks English in Canada — a language he has spoken all his life — the very thing that should connect him becomes another layer of distance.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-english-but-always-translating-9.7168581?cmp=rss
This is the first piece from my Birthplace Series. The brick red tones come from #clay collected from a duck pond I used to visit when I was a toddler and the photo image is of me and my childhood best friend at that pond when we were probably three or four years old. It’s very bittersweet, realizing that my birthplace isn’t exactly home to me after my last visit. Also, many years ago, I found an obituary for my friend online. We’d lost touch after I moved away at age 5. #pottery
This is one of my favorite little pots from the last kiln load. The pinkish tones come from Alabama #clay and match some of the colors on George Washington Carver’s house paint swatches that I posted about a couple of days ago, also derived from Alabama clay. #pottery

a bonnie new palette for you to enjoy:

Van Gogh Green (#66cc8f),
Mint Mist (#b8e0d6),
Dechala Lilac (#b69cc9),
Sand Dance (#e0c7b8), and
Canadian Maple (#ccaf66)

#color #ColorPalette

Also, the raffle winner is Laura Campbell, a fellow artist here in Sarasota. She is actually the one who invited me to show my work at a gallery run by the local unitarian church last fall. I'm happy that my work gets to live in her home.

We did it! Second Heart Homes surpassed their goal of raising $50k, with all donations up to $100 matched. I was able to gather $1,275. Thank you to everyone who pitched in.

I seek out orgs to support that aren't bogged down with administrative costs so that their funding goes directly to addressing the needs of their constituents. Second Heart Homes isn't a shelter--they provide permanent housing. Read their story and replicate their model: https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2023/01/megan-howell-second-heart-sarasota
#Florida #AffordableHousing

Nature imagery #inspiration for some pieces I’m making about my birthplace for an upcoming show at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana called “Clay as Place: The Transient Object.” #Virginia