Asteroid Cups – Page 2 – Joel Cherrico Pottery

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

3 April, 20163 April, 2016

New Pottery Available April 11th at Noon

“The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

The reason why I make pottery is to enrich people’s lives. The things we surround ourselves with matter. Useful art inspired by our place in the world and in the universe has the power to impact society. These “asteroid cups” and “mountain cups” are examples of our new pottery:

One week from today you will be able to purchase any new pottery in our new online store (COMING SOON). Thanks to photography by Julia Eckart, a gorgeous new body of artwork will be available globally. Stay tuned to this email newsletter to be the first to know when pots are available, as well as to receive discount coupons on certain styles of pottery next Monday, April 11th at noon CST.

If you haven’t heard the news (like in this awesome article crafted by the St. Cloud Times) we set a new pottery world record! The world record pots are currently in the kiln and will be available soon. You can watch the attempt below:

“…push the envelope and provide a reason for people to be excited and inspired to be human.”

– Elon Musk, qtd. on 60 Minutes

Video and photo credit: Julia Eckart Photography, Wikipedia 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.