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Pottery by Osa

A blog post from Studio Stiina, a potter in Princeton, BC, about her journey working with #wildclay from her home province Saskatchewan. We’ve been emailing back and forth ever since she finished reading my clay zine. Aside from the technical stuff, there’s so much sentiment around connection to a place through its clay, which I relate to deeply. In so many different senses, clay holds memory.

stiina.net/blog/wild-clay-proc

Studio StiinaWild Clay Process — Studio Stiina(Scroll to the bottom for the TL;DR version) In the summer of 2020, my husband Kalevi was using an excavator to make a dugout (water pond) for our cows, and a chunk of yellow clay fell out of the side of the hole. He decided to bring it home for me and it started me on a 2 year journey to discover
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Pottery by Osa

I’ll be traveling to my home state #Virginia in June to present at the Women Working with Clay Symposium at Hollins University in #Roanoake alongside ceramicists Andrèa Keys Connell, Shikha Joshi and Crystal Morey. Registration is open now.

Showing my process to a live audience can be nerve racking, but I do enjoy these smaller, more intimate ceramic conferences and hope to bring home #clay samples from my birthplace.

hollins.edu/academics/continui

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Ayyy another not-terrible thing! I’m so glad I took notes on what all I did on this one. Mostly this was A Science on how to do decent stencils - I put down black underglaze in the first step, but unfortunately the adhesive on the back of the stencil pulled it up in undesirable ways. LEARNINGS!!

I’m definitely coming to the conclusion that underglaze and adhesive stencils don’t play well together. I still need to try underglaze on greenware and see how that works with using a stencil after bisque firing. Or try a different stencil material, maybe one with less enthusiastic adhesive.

A screenshot of a text note, reading: Butterfly - black underglaze - apply stencil - wipe away around stencil - orange wing spots - clear glaze over orange - wax over glaze (orange) - full dip white - remove stencil - full dip clear
A photograph of the inside of a ceramic bowl, glazed in white with a stenciled monarch butterfly in the center. There’s are several places on the butterfly where the black line work is broken up - this is where the adhesive stencil pulled the powdery underglaze off the bowl. Aside from that, though, this turned out better than I expected! There’s some bits where the glaze pooled a little too aggressively and got a bit hazy and fuzzed some of the line work, but most of the demarcations between colors are pretty sharp.
A picture of the side of the bowl. There’s a few spots where there are small pinprick bubbles in the glaze, and an odd dark grey streak that looks almost like a pencil line at the top edge. I need to ask my teacher what that’s all about (or maybe one of you kind mastodonians know?)
A photograph of the bowl pre-firing. You can barely see where the butterfly is from the glaze being slightly depressed along the black line work, and there are a few spots where you can see the green wax that I painted over the orange spots on the wings to mask them off.
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Pottery by Osa

New blog post: I started sharing images & info from out-of-print book #NigerianPottery which contains photos of pots I haven't seen anywhere online, particularly with this level of regional detail.

I’m hoping access to such visual archives might inform contemporary practice – both for those reconnecting with heritage and anyone invested in global ceramic histories. Will be adding to this gradually as I work through the material.

potterybyosa.com/blogs/clay-pe

Pottery by OsaRare Images from ‘Nigerian Pottery’I received the book Nigerian Pottery as a gift from Warren Fredrick and Catherine White, Virginia potters whose home studio I visited in 2016. We’d stayed in touch via social media, and one day, Warren messaged me offering a copy of the book—he had two and thought I might benefit from having one in my library. The book
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