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October 2011 Newsletter
Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter
Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It is part of our website indigostreetpottery.com , which you can browse from this page if you click on the subjects in the header. We write here about our studio, arts events, projects, studios of our friends, garden musings, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Hope you enjoy it!
August 13, 2011: 2011 Annual Art Auction, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado www.andersonranch.org
May of 2012: Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome, 2-person exhibition, Plinth Gallery, Denver, Colorado http://plinthgallery.com/
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December 2012 Newsletter
Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter
In this Issue
1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar
2. 2012 Indigo Street Pottery Holiday Sale
3. Farraday Newsome: Emotional Terrain,
November/December, 2012, Kean University Art Galleries, New Jersey
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4. Jeff and Skye, Desert Running
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5. It’s Tomatillo Time in the Garden
6. Indigo Street Pottery Landscape Note
Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It is part of our website indigostreetpottery.com , which you can browse from this page if you click on the subjects in the header. We write here about our studio, arts events, projects, studios of our friends, garden musings, and whatever else strikes our fancy. Hope you enjoy it!
November 12 - December 21, 2012: Farraday Newsome: Emotional Terrain, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Art Galleries, Union, New Jersey http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/Exhibitions/farradaynewsome.html
November 9 - December 31, 2012: The Artisan Gallery Cup and Mug Invitational; Consider the Cup 2012, The Artisan Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts http://www.theartisangallery.com/
December 1 & 2, and 8 & 9, 2012: Indigo Street Pottery 2012 Annual Holiday Studio Sale, Indigo Street Pottery, Mesa, Arizona https://indigostreetpottery.com/Site/Home.html
December 1 - 31, 2012: Holiday Art Sale, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
http://www.shemerartcenter.org/programming/upcoming-exhibitions
October 2013: SOFA Chicago, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1 Indigo Street Pottery Calendar
2 2012 Indigo Street Pottery Holiday Sale
email: indigostreetpottery@me.com
5 It’s Tomatillo Time in the Garden!
Farraday currently has a one-person exhibition at the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Art Galleries, Kean University, New Jersey, November 12 - December 21, 2012.
http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/Exhibitions/farradaynewsome.html
The show, entitled Farraday Newsome: Emotional Terrain, consists of two free-standing boxes with high relief imagery and ten curvilinear, dimensional wall-hanging cloud tiles.
Farraday writes in her exhibition statement:
My idea for the show “Emotional Terrain” is to create a landscape exploring the duality of our emotional experience and understanding of life. I am interested in Carl Jung’s assertion that “Man’s life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil.” Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, p.75.
The hanging cloud tile forms are non-containing, untethered places: they are air. The boxes are grounded, contained space: they are structure.
The black and white backgrounds are opposites as well: light and dark. These dual backgrounds support imagery relating to life and death. The fruit, songbirds, seeds, and eggs co-exist with an egg-eating snake, empty seashells, and shark teeth.
Interwoven with these opposites are ideas of time (watch imagery, ephemeral butterflies), chance (dice, playing cards), and danger (poisonous datura seed pods, thorny brambles).
My imagery is a drift of emotional symbols. I find it curious that when I am asked to explain the imagery I often feel like I am doing so after the fact (of it’s making), which makes me almost feel like an outsider. I strive to accept that the source of much imagery is the unconscious (nonverbal, evolutionarily very old), and is offered to the conscious (verbal, evolutionarily new) to examine and explain.
Farraday Newsome, The Solace of Spring, glazed terra cotta, 18.5 x 13 x 14.5", 2012
Farraday Newsome, Seasons of Gain and Loss, glazed terra cotta, 15.5 x 13 x 12", 2012
Farraday Newsome, Bramblenest Cloud Tile, glazed terra cotta, 10.5 x 13 x 3.25”, 2012
Farraday Newsome, Debris of Light Cloud Tile, glazed terra cotta, 13.5 x 14.5 x 4”, 2012
Photos below, clockwise from top left: Jeff and Farraday after the 12K Pass Mountain Trail Run; Jeff and Skye training on Levee Trail in Usery Regional Park; Jeff and Skye with the iconic white rock Phoenix sign in the distance.
3 Farraday Newsome: Emotional Terrain
November/December, 2012, Kean University, New Jersey
6 Indigo Street Pottery Landscape Note
Photos above:
Left: Tomatillos on the vine, growing like little green tomatoes encased in papery husks
Right: In the kitchen making salsa verde with the our tomatillos and green jalapenos
It’s time to harvest our tomatillos and make green salsa! I use the recipe in Rick Bayless’ Authentic Mexican cookbook. Basically, you husk and wash the tomatillos, then boil them for 10-15 minutes. Put them in the food processor with chopped jalapenos (or other green chile), garlic, and chopped onion. Process until smooth but with a little texture. Put it all back in a saucepan and cook for about 10 minutes, adding a little broth if necessary (we use vegetable broth). Very tasty!!
The Mt. Lemmon Marigold (Tagetes lemmonii ) is in full bloom now! This yellow-flowering perennial shrub is native to southern Arizona. It’s leaves have a wonderful fragrance when you jostle them. Very citrusy, almost tangerine-like. We always brush it before sitting down to have coffee in the mornings. We find that this shrub really likes being near the vegetable garden, since it gets water regularly.
There will be plenty of our Birds on a Wire! These are glazed terra cotta and stoneware birds epoxied to solid copper wire & meant for putting in your yard or a planter or whatever you dream up!
Jeff Reich, Yucca Fields, 12.5 x 10 x 2”, glazed stoneware, 2012
Farraday Newsome, Winter Garden, 10 x 9.5 x 7.5”, glazed terra cotta, 2012
Jeff Reich, Tea Bowl Set, 4.5 x 7 x 11.25”, glazed stoneware, 2012
Top photo: Jeff Reich, assorted Luminarias, glazed stoneware, heights 5 to 9”, 2012 (battery-powered electric candle included!)
Bottom photos, left :Farraday Newsome, assorted cups, glazed terra cotta, heights 4 to 5.5”
Bottom Photo, right: Jeff Reich, Agave Jar, 3.5 x 5.5 x 5.5”, glazed stoneware, 2012
This year’s Indigo Street Holiday Studio Sale will be on two consecutive weekends:
Where: Indigo Street Pottery, 6931 E. Indigo St., Mesa AZ 85207
When: Saturday, December 1: 10am - 4pm
Sunday, December 2 : 10am - 4pm
Saturday, December 8 : 10am - 4pm
Sunday, December 9: 10am - 4pm
We will have beautiful new work in a wide price range, with plenty under $50 and on up to collector range. We are delighted that you make time to visit and give us a chance to catch up with how you’ve been this past year. Also, garden tours for the asking!