Cosmic Geode: Lunar Pottery Giveaway and Colorful Cosmic Mugs

Two Lunar Mugs shipped off to two lucky winners in Arkansas and Tennessee last week. People were so excited about this new pottery that we decided to give you newsletter readers another chance to win a gorgeous piece of lunar art:

Enter the Lunar Bowl Giveaway: $165 value, totally free!

This intricate, valuable Lunar Pottery is always available here in our online store. We have also been able to maintain a surplus of our popular Random Cosmic Mugs so you can enjoy lower priced pottery too:

$25 Random Cosmic Mugs

Bill Nye (The Science Guy) also mentioned Cherrico Pottery on StarTalk Radio a few weeks back! The StarTalk Radio Podcast rules- it’s one of my favorites to stream while working in the studio. During their, “Maker Edition” of Cosmic Queries, I submitted a question about STEM vs. STEAM. It was chosen and read on the podcast 55 minutes in! I can still remember watching Bill Nye in 7th grade science classes. Hearing him talk about art and pottery was mind blowing!

Cherrico Pottery on StarTalk Radio: scroll to 55 minutes

“You don’t really think about how important art and aesthetics are until you think about an Apple product.”

– Chuck Nice, Comedian, StarTalk Radio Guest

19 June, 201631 October, 2019

Random Cosmic Mugs

Great photography is tough and takes a long time. We shoot high quality photography for only the best Cosmic Mugs for our store- the jewels, which you can always find here. However, right now we have a surplus of unphotographed, random Cosmic Mugs that are different for these reasons:

Some have less vibrant, darker colors.
Some have gorgeous colors but strange glaze texture flaws.
They vary widely in shapes and sizes from 13-20 ounces.

All are 100% functional and good mugs, but I don’t have the heart to either smash them or charge full price. If you are okay with being surprised by a totally random Cosmic Mug, then this listing is for you:

Random Cosmic Mugs

“This is the aspect of the art that interests me, the audience. Much more so than the fact that people call it art. Call it craft, I don’t care what they call it. You know…somewhere down – long after I’m dead somebody will figure out what it was and how important it was. In the meantime, I get my kicks out of people seeing the work.”

– Dale Chihuly

28 April, 201628 April, 2016

Last Chance for April Pottery Deals: 50% off Space Inspired Pots, 40% off Standard Ware, 30% off Storewide

For less than 48 hours, you can still take advantage of a great coupon package we put together for members of our email newsletter list.

Many sold out, but lots of pots are still available and we added a few more! New pottery (especially Lunar Mugs) will also be added in the coming months. If you don’t find what you are looking for, please feel free to email us (contact@cherricopottery.com) and we are happy to give you a custom coupon if you are looking for pottery that happens to be sold out:

Coupon Code: SPACE50

50% off ANY “Space Inspired” Pottery

*Expiration April 30th, 2016

Coupon Code: STANDARD40

40% off ALL “Standard Ware” Pottery

*Expiration April 30th, 2016

Coupon Code: POTTERY30

30% off Storewide

*New Customers Only

Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this new store successful! Also, stay tuned for the new World Record Pottery! We wood fired these pots at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University wood burning kiln.

World Record Pottery

“You don’t have to know a thing about astronomy to see how gorgeous Hubble images are.”

– Charles Bolden, Administrator of NASA, quoted in Hubble’s Cosmic Journey

11 April, 2016

Gorgeous, Functional, Affordable Pottery: Coupon Package for The New Online Store

For the month of April only, you can get amazing deals on some of the best mugs, cups and bowls that I’ve ever created…

We made a great coupon package just for you, as a thanks for subscribing to our email newsletter list:

Coupon Code: SPACE50

50% off ANY “Space Inspired” Pottery

*Expiration April 30th, 2016

Coupon Code: STANDARD40

40% off ALL “Standard Ware” Pottery

*Expiration April 30th, 2016

Coupon Code: POTTERY30

30% off Storewide

*New Customers Only

STORE.CHERRICOPOTTERY.COM

Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this possible, most notably, photographer Julia Eckart. As a Junior studying at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, Julia has done truly professional work as our company’s marketing intern. She has built an amazing, new online store, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

Watch for new pottery being added throughout the week! If any of the pottery categories run out, will do our best to keep stocking them with new pottery all month long.

“Is this generous? Is this going to connect? Is this going to change people for the better? Is it worth trying?”

– Seth Godin, Author, quoted on The Tim Ferriss Show

Photo Credit:

By Joi Ito – Seth Godin, CC BY 2.0

Julia Eckart Photography

1 February, 20161 February, 2016

New Pottery: Cosmic Ambitions, Japanese Traditions

The first Moon mugs and asteroid cups have emerged from the kiln…

Plus, remaining Kickstarter pottery has been thrown. Most pots are glazed and ready to fire, but I must procrastinate for just a couple more weeks. I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Japan to visit traditional pottery studios, Tokyo galleries and Mount Fuji- all before building my own studio.

Renowned potter Shiho Kanzaki is welcoming us in for a tour of his studio. We’re also visiting Mashiko– a famous town of over 20,000 people who are mostly potters!

New Pottery: Online Store Revamp

We hired skilled photographer Julia Echart to redesign our online store. In 2-3 weeks, we will have a new body of artwork on our gorgeous, new website, with discount coupons given only through this email newsletter.

Detail Shot, Cosmic Mug, Photo by Julia Eckart, Cherrico Pottery — Photo by Julia Eckart

Thanks so much for following along! We’re excited to build a new pottery studio this summer, inspired by historical Japanese studios. Check out the links below if you want to learn more about how Japanese pottery techniques inspired my career over the past 10 years.

Links:

Learn about my version of the Japanese Nuka glaze.

Learn how Japanese wood fired pottery inspires my art.

Learn about historical wood firing techniques that we practiced in the College of St. Benedict wood kiln.

Kickstarter Pottery in Process

My Japanese Tools and Techniques

Mount Fuji Mugs (Available Soon)

“When you try to be good, you look like someone trying to be good, and the result is that no one believes in you. The problem is to deal with these things without becoming hyper conscious or over intellectual…The challenge is to do the thing you have to do because you’re in love with it and can’t do anything else.”

– Warren Mackenzie, potter, qtd. in the 1990 issue of The Studio Potter, told by Gerry Williams, editor of The Studio Potter Journal.