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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 :)

#pottery#porcelain#teapot

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.

I recently took a 'pouring vessels for tea and coffee' class with Po Wen Liu at Arrowmont school of art and crafts. Now that I'm back in my studio, i started working on the surface design.

The dark clay teapot is painted with white clay, then I carved frog designs

stay tuned to see how it turns out after I fire and glaze!

youtu.be/BVW1r73kHCw

#pottery#teapot#tea

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

Was treib ich so? Viel zu viel Nerviges im Moment, aaaaber auch ein kleines #Sculpey Projekt.

Und weil ich inzwischen zuversichtlich bin, dass es etwa so ausschauen wird, wie es soll teile ich hier mal ein paar WIP Bilder mit euch. Ich bin schon ein gutes Stück weiter, aber 🤫!

Na, hat wer eine Idee? 😁

Übrigens erzählt bitte keinem, dass Skulpey schwarz wird, wenn man es 20 Minuten zu lange im Ofen lässt... Das wäre ja voll peinlich... #modellingclay #claysculpture #clay #sculpting