Fresh Pottery Friday – Joel Cherrico Pottery

25 November, 201625 November, 2016

Black Friday Pottery: Cosmic Mugs and Moon Mugs

Have you seen our new website that specializes in Cosmic Mugs? To help celebrate this new website launch, please enjoy these three “Black Friday” coupons, valid today and tomorrow only:

Coupon Code: BLACKFRIDAY5

Coupon Code: BLACKFRIDAY25

Coupon Code: BLACKFRIDAY30

We’re still working on an even better Holiday coupon package for store.cherricopottery.com. Stay tuned to this email newsletter (visit cherricopottery.com/newsletter if you want to guarantee that you are signed up) for awesome coupon deals during the upcoming Holiday season as new pottery emerges from the kiln.

Fresh Pots on cosmicmugs.com

“The problem of producing vital pattern is a very real one to the artist-craftsman. He can no longer depend upon the support and restraint of any particular tradition but must form his own synthesis and invert his own creative designs, for patterns should rise out of the need and experience of today and not from that of yesterday.”

Bernard Leach, A Potter’s Book. Page 102. Faber and Faber, 1940.

11 November, 20169 November, 2016

Fresh Pottery Friday Giveaway: Guinness World Record Pot #100

In case you missed it, Joel Cherrico and the Cherrico Pottery Team set the pottery Guinness World Record this year! You can view the official record here or watch Joel break the record here:

“World Record Planter #100/159” is pictured below, along with an official Certificate of Authenticity from Guinness World Records. To get more of these pots out into the world, we’re giving away Guinness World Record pot #100, absolutely free:

To win this this official piece of art history for free ($179 retail: $159 + $20 packing and shipping) simply respond to the survey below, letting us know which of my @cherricopottery Instagram photos you like best before this Sunday at 11:59pm.

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Thanks! One winner will receive an email this Monday and we will ship them free pottery, to nearly anywhere in the world. Winners are chosen randomly, limit 1 entry per person. Thanks so much for participating and for following our work. Good luck!

BONUS: Get one free bonus entry by leaving a comment on this blog post telling us which photo you like best and why.

Fresh Pots in the Online Store:

Random Cosmic Mugs and Lunar/Moon Mugs

“What distinguishes good artistic license from bad is whether the artist acquired all access to relative information before the creativity begins. Perhaps Mark Twain said it best. ‘Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you please.’”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, qtd. in chapter 39 of his book, “Death By Black Hole”

Moon Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg

28 October, 201618 October, 2016

Fresh Pottery Friday: Cup Giveaway, Nuka Cobalt

“Standard Ware, Nuka Cobalt Cups” are pictured below. “Standard Ware” describe a type of pottery that is simple, durable and meant for everyday use. “Nuka” describes a historical Japanese glaze made with wood ashes, giving the glaze rustic colors that reflect the natural impurities in local wood ashes harvested from my region here in Minnesota. “Cobalt” describes the color blue, which comes from raw cobalt powder. This glaze combination is bright and complex, yet easy enough to reproduce that we can offer it for lower prices than Outer Space or Mountain Inspired pottery. To get more of these pots out into the world, we’re giving away two Nuka Cobalt cups, absolutely free:

To win these two Nuka Cobalt Cups for free ($114 retail: $90 + $12 packing and shipping each) simply respond to the survey below, letting us know which of my @cherricopottery Instagram photos you like best before this Sunday at 11:59pm.

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BONUS: Get one free bonus entry by leaving a comment on this blog post telling us which photo you like best and why.

Fresh Pots in the Online Store

“I never wanted color to be color. I never wanted texture to be texture, or images to become shapes. I wanted them all to fuse together into a living spirit.”

– Clyfford Still, Abstract Expressionist Painter

21 October, 201622 October, 2016

Fresh Pottery Friday: Moon Mug Giveaway

The newest Moon Mugs are getting more complex. Intricate textures that resemble crater impacts are meticulously carved, poked and pressed into each porcelain mug. You can actually watch a demo of me creating Moon Mugs in this Facebook video. The surface colors require tediously brushing on black, blue or rusty iron, before wiping colors away using an “Inlay Technique” inspired by these Korean Potters. Our pots and tools are different, but the resulting surfaces are the same: gorgeous textures that are truly one-of-a-kind. To get more of these into the hands of more people, I’m giving away one of my best Moon Mugs:

This pot was fired three times to achieve a deep orange hue. The interior colors dripped together in the repeated firings, creating layers of complexity. To win this Moon Mug totally free ($160 retail: $145 + $15 packing and shipping) simply respond to the survey below, letting us know which of my @cherricopottery Instagram photos you like best before this Sunday at 11:59pm.

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BONUS: Get one free bonus entry by leaving a comment on this blog post telling us which photo you like best and why.

Fresh Pots in the Online Store

“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.”

– Mae Jemison, Astronaut, qtd. in Scientific American

14 October, 201616 October, 2016

Fresh Pottery Friday: Cosmic Mug Giveaway

The newest Cosmic Mugs are evolving with more colors and complexity. Raw cobalt powder is resulting in deeper blues and surprising gold/yellow streaks. To get more of these into the hands of more people, I’m giving away a brand new pair of Cosmic Mug jewels.

To win a free pair of our best Cosmic Mugs ($200 retail: $85 + $15 packing and shipping each) simply respond to the survey below, letting us know which of my @cherricopottery Instagram photos you like best before this Sunday at 11:59pm.

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Thanks! One winner will receive an email this Monday and we will ship them free pots, to nearly anywhere in the world. Winners are chosen randomly, limit 1 entry per person. Thanks so much for participating and for following our work. Good luck!

Fresh Pots in the Online Store

“I think a lot about balance and how comfortable they feel. They shouldn’t be too heavy, they shouldn’t be too light, they should be just right. The Goldilocks pot.”

– Mark Hewitt, Potter, qtd. in Ben Carter’s Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast: Episode 60