Moon Mug – Page 2 – Joel Cherrico Pottery

11 July, 201611 July, 2016

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

24 June, 201624 June, 2016

Lunar Mug Giveaway

Enter the Lunar Mug Giveaway: $250 value, totally free!

As a thanks for reading our newsletter, you all get first priority to a giveaway of our newest, intricate Lunar Mugs before anyone else. Sharing the giveaway on Facebook and Twitter gives you even better chances to win. Good luck!

If you want to buy Lunar Mugs right now, we also have a few jewels available:

Lunar Mugs

If you’re looking for something less expensive, check out our newest Random Cosmic Mug listing. Thanks to all of your support, we are now able to create and offer these gorgeous mugs at even lower prices:

$25 Random Cosmic Mugs

If you want a cosmic and lunar combo pack, the image below shows what will arrive at your door. This package went to Neil DeGrasse Tyson in New York City, host of StarTalk Radio and StarTalk TV on the National Geographic Channel.

Outer Space Inspired Pottery

“Creative people like to play, and that’s how creation starts. You have to be free enough to play, and then it will come.”

– Flora Mace, Member of Dale Chihuly’s Team

17 June, 2016

Enjoy Reduced Shipping Costs: Pottery Orders Just Got Cheaper

We’re getting better at packing and shipping pottery all the time. We lowered shipping costs across our entire online store! This is great news for everyone, but especially for international customers and accuracy for bulk orders.

Guinness World Record Pottery Pre-sale

The first 10 out of 159 Guinness World Record pots have been posted. July 1st our press page goes out to 50+ news organizations worldwide. 100,000+ people (woah!) already watched our team break the record in this Facebook video! Many of you asked to get your hands on one of these pots before they sell out, so I wanted to make sure you newsletter folks got first priority. We hope that you see this artwork as an investment that will likely appreciate in value.

Special thanks goes out to all of the folks at Guinness World Records for letting us collaborate with stunning, official certificates that are included with each world record pot. As a thanks for being part of our newsletter, enjoy 50% off Guinness World Record pottery during this pre-sale before July 1st:

Coupon Code: GWRPOTS50

We have 159 total and you might still be able to get one in the coming months, but we don’t know how crazy things might get after the July 1st press release date. Most importantly, we are happy to know that this art has already begun to positively affect people globally.

We are still working on photographing pots, but if you are interested in purchasing a certain number, please reply to this email with your requested number and we will give you first priority.

New Lunar Mugs, Cups and Cosmic Mugs July 1st

Thanks so much for reading and stay tuned for a new body of artwork available by July 1st. Cheers! (with a Guinness of course)

“You’ve got to keep advancing a frontier and then there is a new headline to report on...if you advance frontiers, heroes are made.”

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.