Amy Sherald Pulls Smithsonian Show Over Censorship Concerns The museum reportedly did not want to show the artist's painting of a transgender woman out of fear of provoking the President. The painting is called “Trans Forming Liberty.”
Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Exhibition amid Censorship Concerns
The National Portrait Gallery considered removing Sherald's painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty from an upcoming show.
 #transgender #trans #lgbtq #2SLGBTQIA #BlackArt #AmySherald #BlackQueer #censorship #Smithsonian #Art #painting
I made a new dog bowl because I dropped a bottle of olive oil on the old one and it split in three. I made this one with a super thick rim to hopefully give it some extra durability against #HurricaneOsa. Nala is the small black one. We’ve had her for a year. She’s super soft and howls like a tiny wolf. Bayou is our 13-year-old pitt mix, so named because she was rescued from Bayou Rd in New Orleans by my husband’s friend. Neither of them care about their bougie handmade bowl. #pottery
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Awesome photos from an invitational gallery show that opened this week. I shared these ewers in a previous post just after they’d come out of the kiln, but it’s wonderful to see my work grouped with others’ and displayed in such a pleasing, rhythmic way. What an honor to be included with some of the most talented ceramic artists in the country. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #mastodonart #gallery
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It’s finally happening, folks. We’re going #solar 🌞 We’re grid-tied so what this means is a drastic reduction in our fossil fuel use, but not complete elimination. I’m especially happy to be decreasing fossil fuel reliance in the #pottery studio as it adds an additional layer of intentionality to my work. I can talk all day about my connection to the earth through #clay, but it’s all empty conceptualizing without accompanying action. image
Wanted to show this to @James Green but figured I’d share it with everyone. It’s an old blog post about visiting an #Indigenous midden with ancient pottery shards off the coast of #Louisiana. The site was almost lost, getting submerged by water due to sea level rise. Local tribes have intervened since then. It’s a very short post with lots of photos.
Pottery by Osa
Disappearing Pottery Shards in Louisiana
Before moving to Florida in 2020, I lived in Louisiana for eleven years. I took my first pottery class in New Orleans in 2013. Five years later in ...
 #archaeology #climatechange #GulfofMexico #pottery #history
There’s a crystal clarity to this music. It sparkles and has a beautifully mournful quality. The first song is called “Lonely in the Forest,” but in #Burmese.
Little Axe Records
Gita Pon Yeik, by Su Wai
8 track album
 #SuWai #BurmeseHarp #Myanmar #harp #LittleAxeRecords
How kind of @James Green to agree to trade #WildClay samples by mail. This clay is from Bayou Teche, Louisiana and I’m excited to experiment with it. I lived in Louisiana for 11 years, so it’s a sentimental place for me. Thanks, James! First step is to dry it in the sun. I’m going to test fire that round little cookie of unprocessed #clay just to see how it behaves. Then I’ll process another bit of it into terra sigillata and test that. #ClayPals image