Month: October 2013

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Back Roads Pottery Tour and Beer Mugs for Brother Willie’s Pub

This weekend marks the 7th annual Back Roads Pottery Tour. Bring your friends and family for a drive around the St. Joseph and Avon, MN area to check out the fall colors of the leaves and the pots. The tour includes 4 venues hosting 11 potters, and it takes place 10am-6pm Saturday and 10am-4pm Sunday. I’ll be hanging out at Collegeville Orchards showing pottery alongside Bill Gossman and Japser Bond.

Here are the poster and map for the tour, and some photos of last year’s tour:

2013 Pottery Tour

2013 Pottery Tour Mailer side

Back Roads Pottery Tour, Copper Red Glaze, Joel Cherrico, 2012, Image1  Back Roads Pottery Tour, Copper Red Glaze, Joel Cherrico, 2012, Image2

This Friday from 4-8pm I’m also bringing the first batch of stoneware beer mugs to Br. Willie’s Pub on the St. John’s University campus. Each year, the pub sells commemorative mugs for students, faculty and well, anyone to purchase for drinking beer at BWP. This is the first year that Br. Willie’s and I have collaborated to get hundreds of handmade mugs into the pub! Below are a few process shots of the new mugs, but stop by Friday to see them in person. I hear that your first beer is free with the purchase of a mug!

  Stoneware Beer Mug, Throwing Stoneware Pottery, Joel Cherrico Pottery, Photo by Michael Applen, 2013   Brother Willie's Pub, Stoneware Beer Mugs, St. John's University, Cherrico Pottery, 2013 BWP Beer Mugs, Stoneware Clay, Joel Cherrico, Nuka glaze with Iron, 2013   BWP Blue Mugs

 

 

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Massive Pottery Weekend: Millstream Arts Festival, St. Joseph Newsleader, and the Loso Legacy Exhibition

This past weekend was huge for handmade ceramics in the St. Joseph area. I showed my work across 5 venues in 5 days, from windy, rainy farmers markets to swarms of people during the hot, sunny Millstream Arts Festival. Check out this amazing photography by Steve Diamond Elements:

Photo by Steve Diamond Elements, Millstream Arts Festival, Joel Cherrico Pottery, The Local Blend Coffee Shop

I was also lucky enough to land on the cover of the St. Joseph Newsleader! Special thanks to Dennis Dalman for coming to my Pottery on the Deck event a couple weeks back and writing a great story:

http://www.thenewsleaders.net/2013/09/26/cherrico-happy-to-reach-goal-as-full-time-potter/

Joel Cherrico Pottery News, Publications, St Joseph Newsleader, Handmade Ceramic Pottery, 2013

“The Loso Legacy Exhibition” also opened at the Satellite Gallery, located in downtown St. Joseph, MN. JD Jorgenson, one of my pottery mentors and owner of The Satellite Gallery and Jorgenson Pottery, helped organize a show of Jim’s previous work. Jim Loso was a potter in St. Joseph for about 4 decades. He passed away last fall, and this show commemorates his life’s work. For more information check out this great article in the St. Cloud Times:

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20130928/LIFE/309280010/Exhibit-shows-off-work-Loso-other-Central-Minnesota-talents

The exhibition opened as part of Millstream Arts Festival, and will be open until October 13th. Check out their facebook group for more info.

Monday was a perfect end to a long streak of shows. I threw about 30 more pots at Market Monday in Sartell, ended the day with a few sales, then went over to St. John’s University for the Johanna Kiln firing. It was day 3 of the 10 day woodfiring, with over 12,000 pieces of pottery in the kiln. We sat around the fire listening to The Black Keys, falling rain, and the roar of the kiln. Check out this nice article for more info about their 12th firing:

http://www.csbsju.edu/News/Pottery-Firing.htm

Sartell Market Monday, Pottery at Farmers' Markets, Joel Cherrico Pottery, Copper Red Jar, Coil Pot

Johanna Kiln, St. John's University, St. John's Pottery, Photo by Joel Cherrico