March 2015 – Joel Cherrico Pottery

28 March, 201528 March, 2015

American Craft Council, “A Potter’s Journey: The Search for 1,000 True Fans”

This is the final post in, “A Potter’s Journey” for American Craft Council’s website. I’m so thankful for the opportunities they gave me to share the trials and tribulations from my roller coaster career as an emerging artist. Please consider supporting American Craft Council to help more artists build platforms for successful careers in the arts. Without further ado, part eight of A Potter’s Journey:

“A Potter’s Journey: The Search for 1,000 True Fans”

An artist named Sebastian Schuster also wrote a great blog post about my pottery, which you can read here:

“On Making A Living”

22 March, 201522 March, 2015

YouTube Video, Cosmic Mugs: Pottery Inspired by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

These “Cosmic Mugs” are largely inspired by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City (in the video, he’s the guy on my shirt). In his article titled, “The Universe As A Muse” Dr. Tyson said:

“Like the religious and mythological sources that so influenced art before and during the Renaissance, countless artists today are moved by the need to capture the cosmos—on film, in dance, and on canvas.”

Here is a video I made about how the cosmos influences my pottery. Enjoy!

Cosmic Mugs: Pottery Inspired by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope