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@nancylwayne
And I found a lovely pottery workshop, just a few minutes’ walk from our apartment in Santa Ana, San Jose, Costa Rica. The master potter who runs it, Dennis Cheverria, is a third generation potter, who designed the ‘vanola’ coffee maker, which you will find all over Costa Rica - now in Florida and Arizona too. The clay comes from the mountains nearby and is smooth but groggy and a delight to handle.
#costarica #handmade #pottery #ceramics #coffee #clay

This lady who has an interest in #pottery and local clay found my blog posts and got in touch with me. She’s a 3rd generation Floridian and grew up believing that there’s no #clay here, which is a very common misconception.

She came by to visit yesterday and brought a couple of clay samples she’d found. I offered to test fire them for her because she doesn’t have a kiln yet. I just placed them in the test kiln and I’m excited to see what happens. Will post results tomorrow! #WildClay #Florida

Among my four grandparents' last names is my grandfather Thomas, of Welsh ancestry. He was a huge reader, my mom even more, then me, who finds TV and films boring compared to reading. I can thank him for a love of books.
I love Dylan Thomas poetry, and I would joke to my mom that he was a cousin of ours, and she would respond, not incorrectly, that half of Wales has the last name Thomas. But still 🙂 Some new work of mine with thanks to Dylan Thomas #art #mastoart #clay #ceramics #pottery

My new crackly pot inspired another blog post because 500 characters just isn't enough.

"The cracks are unpredictable but beautiful, like a dried lake bed or elephant skin. They’ve come to feel like a map of this place: a visual echo of our fractured geology, our sinkhole-prone foundation, our porous aquifers and eroding coasts. The fragility of the sig surface mirrors the fragility of the land itself."

potterybyosa.com/blogs/clay-pe

Pottery by OsaFractured, Fragmented and Fragile"The cracks are unpredictable but beautiful, like a dried lake bed or elephant skin. They’ve come to feel like a map of this place: a visual echo of our fractured geology, our sinkhole-prone foundation, our porous aquifers and eroding coasts. The fragility of the terra sigllata surface mirrors the fragility of the land itself."

Out of all of the samples I’ve collected around the country, #Florida clays have been the most difficult to incorporate into my work. From what I’ve read, even Indigenous Floridians (especially coastal south) had to find unusual ways to work with the #clay, including adding cattail fur and sea sponge spicules.

I’m persevering because I want to make art that helps other Floridians appreciate our unique geology. I’ve learned so much just from handling and processing it. But boy is it weird.

I'm going to toot my own horn for just a moment!

These are my first teapots since taking Po Wen Liu's workshop, and I can tell my craftsmanship has leveled up. They still need to be decorated and glazed.

i'll never achieve perfection, but the fun is learning and getting better than I was the day before.
Life is like that too :)

I recently visited my birthplace. We moved away when I was 5 and I hadn’t been back in decades. My parents are immigrants so we have no familial connection to that place. My parents also sold the house I grew up in so sometimes I don’t feel like I’m from anywhere. I brought home a tiny sample of birthplace #clay to make art with so that I could try to process and heal this disconnect.

I’m curious if you have a connection to your birthplace and if you could explain what that’s like.

A 12 yr old Black girl came to my Juneteenth workshop and sculpted this small terracotta bust—focused, joyful, sure of herself. I had just returned from #AugustaSavage’s hometown the night before (see previous posts). As a child, Savage was beaten for sculpting #clay animals. (Her dad was a preacher and saw them as idols.) She faced endless obstacles over her lifetime, but kept creating. Seeing this young artist reminded me: her path is clearer now because of those who came before. #KidsArt

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