Today, after my admin tasks are done, I'll begin working on some commissions that I've had on my list to complete. One is for a lidded vessel to be placed on an altar that honors ancestors and orishas. This isn't the first time I've received such a request, but it's been a while. I'm always […]

I’ve been making bedside water bottles for years but I don’t make them very often. They’re inspired by Mexican botellones—small clay water jugs with an accompanying cup which serves as a cover. Sometimes the cup has a handle. I’ve also discovered a Congolese […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Epic fail in the studio just now! I knew I was taking a risk with this larger statement piece. The attachment of the leaves was a challenge and something I’d never tried before. The vase had been sitting and drying for days, waiting for terra sig application […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two different terra sigillata results from the same #WildClay sample. I’ve talked a lot about how terra sig is just refined clay slip—Clay and water blended, left to settle and then you collect the silky fine layer at the top to decorate with. Well, you can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Art and Craft Show & Tell Post a photo of a piece from your home collection and tell us what it means to you. Anything goes—something your kindergartener made or a piece you purchased from a gallery. This #painting is by distinguished Belizean artist Pen […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Rain Vase. It’s been eerily dry. It hasn’t rained heavily in almost a month. Usually, this is my favorite time of year. I love standing on the beach under a dramatic, overcast sky watching lightning and off-shore rain storms. I love walking out into the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Day 1: Camp True Colors clay workshop at ALSO Youth. We’re going to paint them with colorful underglazes tomorrow and then I’ll bring them back to my studio for firing. These kids are always super fun. 🌈 #happypride #lgbtq #iseeyourtruecolors

Unfortunately, we won't have enough time to create a face jug from beginning to end during today's #Juneteenth Arts Festival, but participants will be given the chance to play freely with clay while learning about how enslaved Africans held onto their […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Realizing that so many people I followed when I joined Mastodon last year seem to have abandoned their accounts. Also, one mutual seems to have disappeared. I regretfully forgot their handle but not their presence. Avatar was an anime of a person with round glasses, a bob haircut and a beenie […]

Celebrating #Juneteenth with the community this weekend, including a gallery show and performance tonight at Westcoast Black Theater Troupe and this free clay workshop which is part of the annual #Juneteenth Festival […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Happy #juneteenth, everyone!

Both of the earth tones on this cup come from #Louisiana. The chocolate brown is from a clay from Bayou Teche gifted to me by @archeaids. The iron red is from a creek in St. Francisville—the very first place I ever found and collected #WildClay. The richness […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Another of my favorites from the last kiln load. I’m sending it to a gallery for a show in July. The theme is geometric patterning! #pottery

I’m weird about showing my process on social media, so no pics—but some very cool things happened in the studio today!

After I left this exhibit, everything else looked gray by comparison. Woody DeOthello (b. 1991, Miami) “coming forth by day” Peréz Art Museum Miami #ceramics #sculpture #fineart #blackart #miami

This is a diagram of our power intake while firing my kiln on #solar energy while grid-tied. You can see how the relays are cycling the elements on & off by the intermittent spike in power draw. It’s overcast today, and my kiln (plus central air & other […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I just had my first mentorship session with a recent high school graduate. This mentee is special because she’s actually interested in pursuing #ceramics as a profession whereas my other mentees mostly just wanted to exposure to the medium. This means that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Got my first breast scan today. I opted for a clinic that uses the Koning Vera CT scan—no painful compression, you just lay down and stick your boob in a hole and they scan each one. I believe you get about 30 cross section images of each breast from a scan that only takes a few seconds. If you […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/116720519826715711 My husband was just telling me he felt his desk shake yesterday. I was running errands at the time and didn’t feel a thing. #florida #cuba #earthquake

I'm excited about this series of #clay workshops I'm going to do with middle school summer campers starting this month. It's called "Clay & History: Seeing the Past Through Ceramics". We're going to talk about the fact that #ceramics survive longer in the environment than most other materials […]

We installed our #solar panels around August of last year and it’s going well. We’re using zero kWh/month and have about 900 kWh banked with FPL. It’s very cool to know that the a/c and my pottery kiln are running on solar power. If you’re thinking about it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“In my world,” Bey says, “#clay is the medium of the global majority.” My buddy Sharif Bey left his position at Syracuse University and is moving back to his hometown of #pittsburgh. He’s commemorating the transition with a show called “Homecoming” at Carnegie Museum […]

I love the simple sophistication of these garden irrigation tools. Ollas are one of those ancient technologies that probably have multiple origins—different groups across space and time figuring out a similar technique. I’ve read about their historic use in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It’s not really hot tea season anymore but I felt like practicing my #teapot making skills—and yes, I still consider it practice. I’m always tweaking the design. With this iteration, I thickened the handle for comfort & durability, as I’ve been doing with my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A couple of weeks ago a woman who’d followed me on Instagram for 10 years happened to be in town and came to pay me a visit. We had written back and forth over the years and sent each other gifts in the mail. She even began making pottery herself, she says […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Back in my happy place. #clay #potterywheel #pottery #ceramics

I was out of town for a wedding and a graduation for almost a week and then came back home to tons of fundraising administrative tasks. I can't wait to get back on the wheel tomorrow! I want to be covered in clay.

Kaabo Clay’s biggest fundraiser of the year commemorates the #BlackLivesMatter movement, George Floyd's murder and the pandemic conditions that served as the catalyst for our founding. We are Black artists reaching across boundaries and borders to connect […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A pyramid of ceramic test tiles showing the various tones I get from some of the different #WildClay samples I've collected. The pots I decorate with these clays are called my Earth Tone series. I began working this way in 2024. The iron red tiles along the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I’ve been given the opportunity to work with a special needs kid one-on-one and I’m teaching him #BlackHistory through claywork. Last week we discussed the history behind Southern face jugs—who invented the form, what they signify and their probable roots in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I just applied for a little doggie on petfinder dot com. We just had our two older dogs pass away over the last two years. We have one younger dog that we adopted in 2024 and I think we're about ready to have a pair again. The dog in this listing prefers to have a calm dog friend around. This […]

A life in pictures: celebrating David Attenborough at 100 https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-01371-5/index.html As the British naturalist marks a milestone birthday, Nature has a look at how his work has shaped science.

A few of my favorites from the last kiln load.

I'm equally left and right-brained so this article was such a pleasant read for me. Eglash, wrote the book African Fractals and I was so excited to see that he'd also written about artist John Biggers. "A Geometric Bridge across the Middle Passage […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Working on new batches of decorating slips with clays from Alabama, Georgia and New Mexico. I was contacted recently by Rhonda Willers, the author or Terra Sigillata: Contemporary Techniques. She’s working on a 2nd edition and wants to include my midrange […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Unfathomable quantities of water flushing from the bay into the gulf at Midnight Pass. I never get tired of watching water & light interact. #timelinecleanse #peace #nature #florida

I've been working on this #documentary about one of my mentors, David MacDonald since 2022. He was a professor at Syracuse University for over forty years and is a beloved figure in the #ceramics world. This project has been an immense undertaking. My hope is to finish shooting by spring 2027 […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaddyJew/116435087621279464 This toot has been living rent-free in my head ever since I read it a week ago 😂

It's almost open studio time. This is my first time putting a sign in the intersection that leads from the main road to my street, plus another one out in front of the house. Wonder if it'll make any difference.

Strangely enough, a North Carolina potter named Laurie Caffrey lost her home in an electrical fire (unrelated to her #pottery studio) and now she and her family are displaced and she can’t work. I just had my own small scare yesterday. Why does life have to be so terrifying? Here’s the donation […]

Before/After Photo 1: painted with wild clay decorating slips, unglazed, unfired. Photo 2: glazed and fired. The earth tones are clay slips (terra sigillata), the glossy aqua and white are glaze. #pottery #process #transformation #alchemy #ceramics

My lovely little studio that I just posted about could have burned down, but my Skutt electric #kiln shut down automatically to prevent it. The receptacle was previously showing signs of wear and tear and began melting and smoking during the last firing. I believe I need an industrial grade […]

I’m having another open studio event this Saturday. Just wanted to share what my studio looks like. It’s the garage behind our house, converted into a #pottery workshop. That’s a wood fired #RocketKiln in front and I have electric kilns inside. I could run my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#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 […]

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

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

Good morning, folks! It’s the #GivingChallenge, when the Community Foundation of #Sarasota County matches donations up to $100 for our local non-profits. I’m reaching out to my network to encourage donations for Second Heart Homes by raffling this stoneware […] [Original post on mastodon.social]