iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Playing with weird new mug ideas - I’m firing electric for a while, and starting to work with color that isn’t brown or green (gasp!), and that seems to be inspiring a shakeup of form, too.

A greenware stoneware mug with a ledge bisecting the rim and handle on a banding wheel.

An overhead shot of an unfired stoneware mug with a horizontal line bisecting the interior and continuing up onto the handle.

The foot of an unfired mug with a line bisecting it vertically, with an artist’s signature on the right half of the foot and three square tripod feet on the other side

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If anybody’s looking for me I’ll just be making tiny little scrap jars that bring me immense joy until 2029.

A 2.5 inch tall greenware jar with a lid with a small angular knob. Its surface has a rocky texture made out of black, white, grey, and yellow clays sitting in the center of a blue banding wheel.

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Pottery by Japanese ceramic artist Miyashita Zenji, 1990s-2000s.

Square ceramic vessel with layers of colored clay forming a gradient moving from deep blue on the bottom up to green and creamy yellow, resembling a mountain landscape.

Rounded ceramic vessel with layers of colored clay forming a gradient moving from deep blue on the bottom up to purple and pink, resembling a mountain landscape.

Tall ceramic vessel with wavy curved sides and layers of colored clay forming a gradient moving from deep blue on the bottom up to purple and mauve.

Tall ceramic vessel split in the middle to form a slender "U" with layers of colored clay forming a gradient moving from deep blue on the bottom up to green and yellow.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I’m not dead, I’ve just been working on this show with my friends, now up at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social featuring spoons & surface carving by me, cups & glazes by @atteberryclayworks.bsky.social, coasters by @emikomay.bsky.social, and plates & salt/pepper shakers by @phasesoftheyoon.bsky.social

A blue obelisk pepper shaker and an amber pyramid salt shaker sit on a blue, black, and white coaster.

Two cups, one blue and one amber, and a small porcelain bowl sit on a riser.

A stack of blue plates with rocky rims and crystals on the surface sit under a cherry spoon with a wiggly handle. Other tableware with similar motifs is visible in the background.

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mywife is soft nd ilikeher @liveonthesun.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

i've spent nearly every class in my master's program researching this shit & yes, it really does matter that libraries get supportive feedback from their patrons about things like queer programming & pride displays. libraries have tiny budgets & they need to know that the community is benefitting

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I am a simple man and all I want is a three chambered wood/soda/salt kiln, and a chihuahua rescue. However many chihuahuas you’re picturing, picture more. Just giant herds of chi mixes all being adorable little assholes, bossing each other around.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yesterday’s SIP (spoon in progress) Having fun with these wiggly handles. #woodcarving #spoon #workinprogress

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Slowly but surely my @starflowerstudios.bsky.social space is coming together, just in time for a glazeathon.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just another little guy in progress for a firing coming up in May. Who knew making little guys would be this soothing? My recent practice has been to listen to a news update, then make a little guy, rinse, repeat. #ceramics #greenware #pottery #sculpture

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

When you’ve run out of excuses (and space) to avoid glazing #bisque #pottery #ceramics

A white shelf with bisqueware pots of various shapes and sizes on it

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Increasingly complete collection update (Every one needs a hobby, no?) #dolantools #toolnerd #potterytools

Five Dolan Tools knives on a green table

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

In 3rd grade I used to use my free period to go to the library, climb out the 1st floor window when the librarian wasn’t looking, and then would go to the public library and read until it was time to take the bus home. By grade 6 there was a warning in my school file about it.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A tiny porcelain Trex with googly eyes and a gigantic butt, for some reason, made out of Takamori trimming scraps and waiting to be woodfired. #ceramics #pottery #starflowerstudios #dinosaurart #greenware #worksinprogress

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Am I having NCECA fomo? Yes. Did I also finally find online the one Dolan tool I’ve been looking for for 4 years to complete my collection that coincidentally arrived at the same time? Also yes. #dolantools #toolnerd #pottersofbluesky

Will’s hand is holding a Dolan Tools 220c flexible blade knife with a cherry handle over a cardboard box with visible packing material

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

After I made this and actually looked at it I started laughing so hard that my husband and dog both heard and came in to my studio, concerned. #pottery #greenware #worksinprogress #potterofbluesky

An inexplicable stoneware bottle made from multiple clays with an organic stony texture

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 21/03/2025

The AHA encourages historians to contact their representatives to protest the recent attack on the Institute for Museum & Library Services. The IMLS provides essential funding to libraries & museums in all 50 states and US territories. Read our action alert to learn how to support the IMLS. 🗃️

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Action Alert: Defend the Institute for Museum and Library Services

The American Historical Association encourages historians to contact their Congressional representatives to protest the recent attack on the very existence of the Institute for Museum and Library Serv...

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I made pots today for “the entirety of Patricia Wants to Cuddle on audiobook” hours

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Libby App @libbyapp.com · 17/03/2025

Libraries are vital, providing access to information, technology, and learning. Cutting IMLS funding threatens these services, especially in underserved areas. Library funding isn’t political—it’s an investment in education, opportunity, and civic engagement. #LibraryLove #ForOurLibraries ala.org

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A work in progress - been working on these angly little cafe mugs for ages, but I think I finally made the right decisions on the shape, size, and handle. I’ve got a bunch of these that’ll be fired in wood/soda in almost exactly a month. #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #mug

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

(The following is not about pottery or books) 10 years ago on Pesach I had a very vivid dream that when we left the door open for Elijah Chuck Schumer came in & I yelled “GET OUT, CHUCK SCHUMER, YOU’RE NOT INVITED TO OUR SEDER” Anyway, that came to mind today for no particular reason.

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Carol @phasesoftheyoon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

These fish cups will be in our show opening in person and online Saturday at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social . @emikomay.bsky.social did the drawings based on an 1850s German how-to book for housewives. These women did some serious labor. #fish #illustration #mug #mugs #art #prep #pottery #ceramics

Two stacks of 3 mugs each. These porcelain mugs have Japanese textile inspired designs on red lower halves and on the upper half a black ink like drawing of a fish being prepared for eating. The pictures are inspired by an 1850s German instruction manual for housewives.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation costs to another state because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence."

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Keshet-HFLS “Move to Thrive” Interest-Free Loan Program - Keshet

Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are partnering to offer interest-free loans of up to $10,000 for individuals and families to support relocation

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When things are slow, I sometimes start carving little spoons. If only clay were as portable and easy to clean up!

A pile of small curled basswood shavings on a brown piece of paper on a marbled counter top

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sometimes it’s rainy outside and you’ve got a little lump of clay left after coiling something big and so you just need to make a silly little guy. Thinking of making a t-rex and brontosaurus to go with him. #handbuilding #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #triceratops

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 08/03/2025

The strange, bewitching, and sensuous Czech anthology film PRAGUE NIGHTS gets a beautiful new transfer and several illuminating extras courtesy of Deaf Crocodile. Available on Blu-ray on Tuesday. shorturl.at/I0j82

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Leli Ami - Amazigh Ceramic Artist @leliami-ceramics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’ve just begun a Pacific Northwest Ceramic artists Starter Pack. Hoping to build a supportive community for PNW artists here. If you’re a PNW clay artist and would like to be added to this starter pack, send me a message! All are welcome 🤗 go.bsky.app/6aV31Ct #pottery #pnw #pottersofbluesky

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Spent a productive afternoon carving planters and plates and couldn’t resist documenting this one perfect spiral from carving a perfectly leather hard porcelain plate #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #claynerd #porcelain #artprocess

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today I learned that if you are a potter who mostly uses subtractive techniques and also a woodcarver, and you are not ambidextrious, hollowing 4 kurinuki vessels followed by two wooden serving spoons is sincerely ill advised, from a callus development perspective 😬

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Juicy little geologic lever teacup. I’ve made so many of these in the past few months, tinkering with the design & surface texture. They’re getting there.This one is Clay Art Center’s Takamori, soda fired to ^10. #sodafiredpottery #pottery #ceramics #handbuilt #porcelain #pottersofbluesky

A short cup with a flat lever handle and a defined ridge on the side and a asymmetrical rim with shiny black and green soda crystals covering it

An angular short cup with a lever handle and a defined ridge on the side with an asymmetrical rim and a cobblestone pattern on the side

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I used to make a lot of these charred wood-esque pots, and I recently came back to it with all the extra space I have at @starflowerstudios.bsky.social. This sculptural bowl is available now at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social! #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery #sculpturalpots #cohortsdotart

A wide deep bowl made of a brown and yellow groggy clay with bricklike pattern of black crackled strips of clay and a swooping asymmetrical rim

A close up of the bowl’s texture. A yellow brown background and black slip strips with a finely crackled pattern.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 28/02/2025

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We interrupt the ceramics and occasional book talk and the general misery out there to brag that all of my monstera clippings are beginning to grow roots successfully.

A monstera stem in water buds from aerial roots underwater

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Coiled this weird asymmetrical planter at @starflowerstudios.bsky.social yesterday… and promptly destroyed it by going a bit too far altering the bottom. Win some, lose some, reclaim many. #ceramics #starflowerstudios #pottery #cohortsdotart #coiledpots

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We embrace joy whenever we can, okay?

A large box of Girl Scout Cookies that contains four boxes of Tagalong cookies, four boxes of Do Si Dos, one box of Samoas, and two boxes of Toffeetastic.

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

OK, this is for @dovegraveyard.bsky.social and for @slug543.bsky.social and anyone else who might be interested. Dove did this great poster of ancient critter vessels from mostly Europe and the Americas, and I offered to show them some from East Asia. For reasons, I did this as a blog post - enjoy!

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Why friend-shaped?

Over the past few years I’ve been in conversation with a number of artists and graphic novelists about vessels and objects from ancient East Asia that look like animals. For various reasons i…

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Starting to settle into my studio space @starflowerstudios.bsky.social by making a bunch of new molds. Is there any joy greater than breaking in a new studio?

A workbench with a banding wheel on it holding a bisque mold, a shelf over it with various ceramics and tools on it, a utility cart next to with a bucket, and a pegboard with a variety of pottery tools on it.

A workbench with a bisque mold, canvas, ribs, and a watch and water bottle on it. There is a shelf over it on the wall with various ceramics and tools on it, a utility cart next to with a bucket, and a pegboard with a variety of pottery tools on it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/02/2025

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

And now for something completely different!

Various sculptural parts made of white and black groggy clays

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Today in pots: big coiled jar out of 3 Starworks clays (Dark Star, New Catawba, New Seagrove). Hoping to woodfire it at the end of this month, if it ever dries in the WA winter. #pottersofbluesky #pottery #greenware #woodfiring #wildclay

A large wide jar with a neck and a wavy texture in light gray, medium brown, and black clay sitting on a banding wheel.

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Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

You know the best thing? Soda firing. Soda firing is the best thing. I’ll take good pictures of these eventually but for now: Look! Soda!

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