The online shop is open and restocked for summer. Shipments generally go out on Fridays.
If you’d like me to ping you when work is replenished, I send advance notice, early access, and a one time discount to folks who sign on for email notifications.
Thank you for your interest and support. -Carisa
LULA Pottery is Carisa Miller and a flock of chickens in a backyard garden pottery studio in Portland, Oregon U.S. since November 2018.
“My clay practice is craft-centric, material driven, rooted in simplicity, and seeks to embody the essence of the natural elements that give it form. The pots are an expression of the literal effects of time on earth embodied as intimate and essential companions.
Pottery is elemental
Of actual earth and time
Mountains made and undone
Industry of stars, tectonic plates, erosion
Absent of newness
Regenerative deterioration
Evolutionary, entropic, atomic
Beauty born of essence and attention
Utilitarian and aesthetic nexus
In communication with all of story
Ultimately romantic
A vessel to hold nourishment on which the survival of my body depends
Pulverized rocks and water passing through my hands into fire
Becoming a dish that holds my favorite rocks
Initiating, facilitating, observing, studying, embracing molecular change
Exploring essence
Practicing nature
I throw pots on the wheel predominately, occasionally hand or coil building, and seek to keep forms simple and minimally adorned, focusing on utility and inclined toward organic surface variations representative of the chemical interactions of the materials. I practice a variety of firing finishes, in an electric kiln with glazes I formulate in house, by pit firing utilizing combustibles provided by the chickens and garden, and exploring wood and gas firing incorporating an oxygen reduced atmosphere.
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$5 of every LULA Pottery purchase of $35 and over goes directly to the World Central Kitchen providing emergency food relief to populations in crisis.
Since November 2024, your combined LULA purchasing power has contributed $2,335 to the World Central Kitchen
In addition, since opening in November 2018, you’ve raised $3,600 for the Natural Resources Defense Council $410 for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services $1,080 for the International Rescue Committee $1250 for Planned Parenthood and the National Network of Abortion Funds through raffle-to-win-pottery and portion of sales fundraiser events.
That’s $8,675 of combined giving as of end June 2025.
Thank you
