Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, one of you gets a cosmic mug every week, chosen randomly, totally free! I hope to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of art. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive this free mug anywhere in the US or Canada!

9.25.15 Cosmic Mug, Cherrico Pottery

Stay tuned for a huge body of cosmic pottery available at discounted prices soon, ready in time for Christmas delivery.

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“There’s something about the physicality of clay…a worthless material to most people. Contractors can’t build in it, farmers can’t grow in it. The only worth it has is what you and I give it.”

– Don Reitz, qtd. in “A Beachside Chat with Don Reitz and John Balistreri”

Don Reitz, Flagstaff, AZ

18 September, 201516 September, 2015

Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

9.18.15 Cosmic Mug, Cherrico Pottery

Stay tuned for a huge selection of cosmic mugs available soon at discounted prices, ready for Christmas delivery. Also be sure to check out the Cherrico Pottery Facebook page every so often for cosmic mug giveaways! You have just one more day to enter into this “Triple Cosmic Mug Giveaway” sponsored by Subject To Fire.

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Once each year, I set up an outdoor studio at "Art in Bayfront Park" in Duluth, MN for a weekend of pottery making. — Once each year, I set up an outdoor studio at “Art in Bayfront Park” in Duluth, Minnesota for a weekend of pottery making in front of Lake Superior.

“I’m eager to try to put myself in a position where I can be brave.”

– Dessa, qtd. in “Dessa the CEO”

11 September, 201511 September, 2015

Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, one of you gets a cosmic mug every week, chosen randomly, totally free. I hope to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of artwork. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive this free mug anywhere in the continental United States.

14 years ago today marks the commemoration of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. I still remember watching TV news coverage in my 8th grade classroom. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this tragedy. I hope the quote below offers some encouragement for dealing with tough times.

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Cherrico Pottery Kiln Unloading — Photo by Alex Forster, 2014

“Everyone gets knocked down but the style in which you get up is what’s important.”

– Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age

4 September, 20153 September, 2015

Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

cosmic mug and new brochure, cherrico pottery

Stay tuned for cosmic mugs available at HUGE price discounts, ready in time for Christmas delivery, as well as a couple more giveaways in the coming weeks. These three mugs and brochures are also shipping out to three winners of last week’s Triple Cosmic Mug Giveaway. Congrats, Rachel, Natalie and Jean!

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Cosmic Spiral Process

“You have to have art in everything you do. This is to say, art is what humans do. Humans create art…Many of us agree, that when you make a really elegant engineering thing, like the Brooklyn Bridge or Golden Gate Bridge, people say that looks great…it has a really artistic quality.”

– Bill Nye, The Science Guy, qtd. in “Undeniable”

28 August, 201528 August, 2015

Cosmic Friday: Free Cosmic Mugs, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, I decided to send one Cosmic Mug to one random person each week- totally free. My goal is to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of artwork. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive this free mug anywhere in the continental United States!

Sorry I can’t afford to ship free mugs worldwide yet. If you’re dying to get your hands on a Cosmic Mug, I have just a few jewels available in my online store here. Feel free to use this 20% off coupon code as a thanks for subscribing to my mailing list: COSMIC20

Otherwise, be sure to enter into the Triple Cosmic Mug Giveaway running through the end of August- definitely your best odds at winning a free mug!

By November, I’m planning to have a HUGE selection of Cosmic Mugs available at HUGE price discounts, ready in time for Christmas delivery.

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Each “Cosmic Friday” you will get a short email where I give away one free Cosmic Mug, show one cool process shot from my studio and share a quote that I found during my artistic research. Enjoy!

cosmic platter — The first “Cosmic Platter” – a huge wall piece with dark, starry night glazing…the first of many!

“In many ways, fame is the industrial disease of creativity. It’s a sludgy byproduct of making things…It’s my job as an artist to be understood, and I would rather fight for the audience to have a good experience.”

– Mike Myers, qtd. in Marc Maron’s podcast.