Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, one of you gets a cosmic mug every Friday, chosen randomly, totally free! I hope to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of art. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive a free mug anywhere in the US or Canada!

Cosmic Mug and Brochure and Cherrico Pottery Bag, Photo by Tara Maas
Photo by Tara Maas

Stay tuned for a huge body of cosmic artwork available at discounted prices soon, ready in time for Christmas delivery.

Free Cosmic Mugs and Serving Bowl Giveaways

Be sure to check the two giveaways I’m running this week! You have just one more day to enter for a Cosmic Serving Bowl in collaboration with my interview on The Potters Cast podcast. Also, The Adventures of Badass Women Facebook page is sponsoring this giveaway of three more cosmic mugs! Good luck!

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Pottery Glaze Brushing, Cherrico Pottery, 2010“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

– Albert Einstein

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Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, one of you gets a cosmic mug every week, chosen randomly, totally free! I hope to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of art. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive this free mug anywhere in the US or Canada!

9.25.15 Cosmic Mug, Cherrico Pottery

Stay tuned for a huge body of cosmic pottery available at discounted prices soon, ready in time for Christmas delivery.

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Photo by Steve Diamond Elements, HAnds on the wheel

“There’s something about the physicality of clay…a worthless material to most people. Contractors can’t build in it, farmers can’t grow in it. The only worth it has is what you and I give it.”

Don Reitz, qtd. in “A Beachside Chat with Don Reitz and John Balistreri”

Don Reitz, Flagstaff, AZ

Cosmic Friday: Free Mug Giveaway, Studio Shot and One Cool Quote

As a thanks for subscribing to my email list, one of you gets a cosmic mug every week, chosen randomly, totally free! I hope to give more people the experience of using this new, valuable type of art. This week’s winner has an email waiting in your inbox, ready to receive this free mug anywhere in the US or Canada!

9.18.15 Cosmic Mug, Cherrico Pottery

Stay tuned for a huge selection of cosmic mugs available soon at discounted prices, ready for Christmas delivery. Also be sure to check out the Cherrico Pottery Facebook page every so often for cosmic mug giveaways! You have just one more day to enter into this “Triple Cosmic Mug Giveaway” sponsored by Subject To Fire.

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Once each year, I set up an outdoor studio at "Art in Bayfront Park" in Duluth, MN for a weekend of pottery making.
Once each year, I set up an outdoor studio at “Art in Bayfront Park” in Duluth, Minnesota for a weekend of pottery making in front of Lake Superior.

“I’m eager to try to put myself in a position where I can be brave.”

Dessa, qtd. in “Dessa the CEO”

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Apollo 11 Bootprint, Bigcommerce Blog Feature and another Chance to Win Two Free COSMIC MUGS

46 years ago today, the first humans set foot on the moon. As a potter, I’m obsessed with making marks. This photo shows Buzz Aldrin making footprints on the lunar surface:

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Bootprint, Mark Making, Brushing Glaze

Aldrin’s mark on the moon will impact society forever. Earlier this year, my friends at StarTalk Radio helped get a cosmic mug into Buzz Aldrin’s hands (also- StarTalk just put out this awesome podcast episode with Bill Nye talking about his change of heart towards GMO foods). As more and more celebrities like Buzz Aldrin own cosmic mugs, my hope is that my art will help people think about important marks we all make on society.

To help celebrate this important day, the Bigcommerce Blog generously agreed to host a giveaway of my newest cosmic mugs! You can enter the giveaway here:

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Bigcommerce has helped me sell pottery online for the past four years. Their online store hosting is a key reason that I have been able to make a living as a full-time potter. They generously let me write this guest blog post on their website:

Products That Matter: Blending Art, Science and Pricing for a Winning Ecommerce Strategy

Cosmic Mug on the Deck

Photography Copyright:

“Apollo 11 bootprint” by NASA / Buzz Aldrin – NASA (original upload; ALSJ (AS11-40-5877)). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_11_bootprint.jpg#/media/File:Apollo_11_bootprint.jpg

“Aldrin Apollo 11 original” by NASA – http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpghttp://www.archive.org/details/AS11-40-5903 (TIFF image). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldrin_Apollo_11_original.jpg#/media/File:Aldrin_Apollo_11_original.jpg

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