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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Don Cox
Description
Potter and longtime neighborhood resident, Don is creating a series of hand-thrown mugs to give to essential workers in the shopping center at Alpine/Broadway. These gifts honor his community members working on the front line and provides an opportunity for the artist to document their stories. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
A
My
name's
don
cox
and
I've
been
a
potter
here
in
boulder,
since
I
moved
here,
which
was,
I
think,
around
95,
and
just
that's
what
I've
done
since
I've
moved
here.
I've
worked
as
a
potter
before
I
grew
up
in
michigan,
and
I
worked
as
a
potter
there
when
I
got
out
of
college
and
then
I
also
worked
out
in
maine
for
a
little
while
as
a
potter.
So
I
don't
know
I
just
kind
of
fell
into
that.
A
A
It's
usually
I'm
part
of
the
boulder
potters
guild
and
that
we
have
a
spring
sale
and
a
fall
sale,
and
just
I
really
gear
up
for
that
spring
sale.
As
all
the
members
do
or
most
of
the
members
do,
and
then
you
know
we
kind
of
like
winter
is
kind
of
our
dead
time.
For
you
know,
after
christmas
sales
kind
of
die
and
then
we're
hoping
to
spring
back,
you
know
this
time
of
so
and
so
that's
affected
me
a
lot.
A
All
the
shows
have
been
canceled
like
all
the
summer
shows
that
I
applied
to
have
been
cancelled
and
the
co-op
on
the
pearl
street
mall
is
one
of
my
outlets
and
that
all
got
shut
down
so
and
they're
struggling
to
pay
the
rent
on
the
mall.
It's
super
high.
So
although
it
has
helped
me
like,
I
never
really
embraced
the
whole
online
selling
stuff,
and
so
it's
forced
me
to
do
that,
which
is
is
good,
and
so
we
came
up
with
the
idea.