Osa Atoe (Ah-toy) is a Nigerian-American ceramic artist living in Sarasota, Florida. Pottery by Osa grew out of her kitchen in New Orleans in 2015 and has since expanded to a full-sized studio. She holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology, and she'd been involved in activist groups for many years, but her passion was music. She played in various punk bands for fifteen years, touring all over the United States and Europe. Aside from music, she wrote a zine (turned book) about Black punks & outsider artists called Shotgun Seamstress. Atoe took her first pottery class at age thirty-four. A few years later, she completed a year-long post-baccalaureate program for ceramics at Louisiana State University and has pursued various alternative learning opportunities since. She encourages others in their path to ceramics by leading Kaabo Clay, a community for Afro-descended potters.
