Hello loved ones and kind strangers! 💖 So, a few updates and thoughts: 1. I have art in my first exhibition in Atlanta! It is at the Avondale Arts Alliance. Here is a picture from the opening night: My pieces will be there until the Closing Reception: February 21, 6PM-9PM. Here is a link to all the pieces in the show! 2. I have art in another show happening this Friday, a Valentine’s-themed show, so I’m really excited to check out the whole swanky exhibition then! Here is a link to the show....
8 months ago • 3 min read
Hello friends and citizens of LIL republic! It has been like a month since my last newsletter, and for that I apologize – I did a lot of resting (and getting the flu) and traveling over the holidays, but now I am back in the pocket. So, updates: LOOK AT WHAT IM WORKING ON: She is the prototype/the first in a series of pieces that I throw on the wheel as a closed form, in the shape of a matryoshka/Russian nesting doll, then I sculpt with this phrase in mind: “She is creating the landscape of...
9 months ago • 3 min read
Hello hello, Hope your Tuesday is going well! It’s the time of year where, when not scrambling into or out of holiday plans, we start to reflect on the year and make goals for next year. I have a few goals for next year; one of them is to transition from selling in person to selling online. It is almost 2026, after all, and in the future Bezos and his henchmen will keep us strapped to Barcaloungers and we’ll only be able to online shop. So, as a first step, I created this online shop (also...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Hi hi! So it turns out that the holiday season is absolutely crazy if you’re a ceramic artist - I am preparing for 3 markets right now and it’s whimsical winter whirlwind I’ll keep this one brief, with 3 thoughts and one pottery topic: Love is the divine force, but we can’t use it to love the divine because we don’t understand what the divine is, so we have to use it to love each other (also animals, plants, and objects). Challenges lead to growth, so we should be grateful for challenges, but...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Hi all, Happy almost Halloween! I spend this evening nerding out with other pottery nerds and the owner of Mudfire, my pottery studio. We had a class about ancient Vincan pottery from the Baltics and ancient Minoan pottery from Crete. Parts that stood out to me: The first ceramic items found from 30,000 years ago are figurines of mother goddesses The first “pottery” or functional pots are from 10,000 years later than the figurines This means that pottery was about ritual far before it was...
12 months ago • 1 min read
What does it mean to be created from clay? There are dozens of creation myths with the same story: humans being made from clay. This story could have developed independently in some places, the same way pottery developed independently in many places around the world; it also spread through the colonization and migration of people. Ancient Greek, Ancient Egyptian, Maori in New Zealand, Yoruba in Nigeria, the list goes on for groups of people who believed that humans were created by a God...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere" - Zig Ziglar Today I was walking down the road past my pottery studio. I had wanted a nice place to walk near my pottery studio, yet I had never continued walking down the same road my pottery studio is on. When I finally did, after ~4 months at this pottery studio, I found a lovely dead-end road. After reaching the end, surrounded by trees and houses bathed in...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Let’s talk about 🏺 emoji This is the pottery emoji, but what actually is it? If you said Greek amphora, you would be right!! I think someone would see that emoji and think “generic ancient pottery” but 🏺 has a specific origin and significance. The Ancient Greeks were goated at pottery. They used it for trade and exported it around the world, as well as storage and rituals in Greece. Fun fact: Amphorae (plural of amphora) were so common in Athens that broken shards, called ostraka, were used...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hey y’all, First off this newsletter is LATEEEEE that’s on me I didn’t really know what to write about because this newsletter kind of hinges upon me having revelations and sometimes I don’t have revelations, or I forget about them before I can write them down –– Which leads me to a new pivot, if you want to stick around for it: each week I’ll be show-and-telling pottery from a certain place at a certain point in time. I want to learn more about pottery in the past around the world (think...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read