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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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5 Indigo Street Pottery Garden: Cucumber Seed-Saving
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January 2013 Newsletter
Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter
In this Issue
1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar
2. Farraday’s Mayo Clinic Commission
3. 12th Annual ASU Ceramic Studio Tour
4. Contemporary Forum of the Phoenix Art Museum 2013 Dinner Art Auction
5.Indigo Street Pottery Garden: Cucumber Seed-Saving
6. Farraday’s Sister Jody Mangiaratti Runs Her First Marathon
7. Indigo Street Pottery Landscape Note: Baby Saguaro
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!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 25 - March 31, 2013: February 23 & 24, 2013: 34th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/upcoming-art-exhibits/34Crafts
February 9, 2013: Oregon College of Art and Design’s 38th Annual Art on the Vine, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon https://ocac.edu/events/art-vine-2013-live-auction-preview-artist-reception
February 23 & 24, 2013: ASU Art Museum Ceramic Research Center’s Annual Ceramic Studio Tour. Indigo Street Pottery is host site #15 with Jeff, Farraday, and guest artists Les Lawrence, Jaye Lawrence, and Jesse Armstrong. asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter
February 16, 2013: Contemporary Forum’s Annual Dinner Art Auction, both of us will be represented in the Art Auction, Phoenix Art Museum contemporaryforum.org
October 2013: SOFA Chicago, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.sofaexpo.com/pages/future.htm
May 2014, Jeff Reich, one-person exhibition, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Galleries, Kean University, Union, New Jersey http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/
1 Indigo Street Pottery Calendar
2 Farraday’s Mayo Clinic Commission
6 Farraday’s Sister Jody Mangiaratti Runs Her First Marathon!
email: indigostreetpottery@me.com
7 Indigo Street Pottery Landscape Note
I am so proud of my youngest sister, Jody Mangiaratti! She has been running for years, and recently ran her first marathon!
Jody and her family live in Barrington, Rhode Island. Jody is a middle school social studies teacher who has travelled to China and other countries as part of her curriculum-building association with the National Geographic Society.
3 12th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum
Ceramic Studio Tour
Jeff Reich, Desert Erratic, glazed stoneware, 9.5 x 17 x 9”, 2009
Farraday Newsome, Night Garden Bobcat Box, glazed terra cotta, 15 x 15 x 7”, 2010 - 2012
Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome will once again be participating in the annual Gala Dinner Art Auction at the Phoenix Art Museum to be held February 16, 2013. This event is sponsored by the Contemporary Forum, an auxiliary group of the Phoenix Art Museum dedicated to raising money for museum acquisitions, contemporary exhibitions, support for artists, U.S. and foreign travel, gallery and salon events, architectural tours, and arts lectures and films. This is a major fundraiser for this worthy group.
For more information: http://contemporaryforum.org/events/2013/02/art-auction-dinner/
Below: Photos of the work Farraday and Jeff will have in the Phoenix Art Museum 2013 Dinner Art Auction
Let the “designated seed cucumber” get really big on the vine and go yellow. This aged lunker is an Armenian cucumber.
Cut off the ends and cut the cucumber in half.
Use a spoon to scoop the seeds into a glass dish or jar.
Pour water over the seeds and let it all sit for several days to “ferment”. This helps dissolve the pulp that surrounds all the seeds.
Waiting for the pulp to break down. We seed-saved both Armenian and Striped Serpent Cucumbers, which grew in very different parts of the yard so as not to be cross-pollinated.
Jeff spotted this volunteer baby saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) in our back yard this month. It is already about five inches tall! Saguaros only grow from seeds and they are slow growers. This one is probably several years old, maybe more.
It is nestled in turpentine brush, downslope from two mature saguaros that fruit mightily each year. Many birds feast on the fruit, so it is a likely spot for germination, but still a wonderful surprise!
After 4 days I’m washing the seeds in a sieve, with most of the dissolved pulp washing off.
4 Contemporary Forum of the Phoenix Art Museum 2013 Dinner Art Auction
This will be Indigo Street Pottery’s eleventh year as a host site for the Arizona State University Art Museum’s annual free, self-guided ceramic studio tour. Studio ceramists across the Valley will open their studios to hundreds of visitors for the 2-day tour February 23 & 24, 2013.
Indigo Street Pottery, with hosts Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich and guest artists Les Lawrence, Jaye Lawrence and Jesse Armstrong, will be site #14 this year.
Along with seeing plenty of finished work for sale by the various participating artists, there are scheduled demonstrations to gain insight into how the art is made.
The full-color 2013 Ceramic Studio Tour map/brochures are available at the Ceramic Research Center of the ASU Art Museum (NE corner of Mill and 10th St. in Tempe: 18 E. 10th St., Tempe AZ 85287) if you want to stop by and pick one up. Their hours are Tuesdays 11am-8pm and Wednesday through Saturday 11am-5pm. asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter. You can also visit the Ceramic Studio Tour’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ceramics-Studio-Tour/274600532039?ref=ts
When: February 23 & 24, 2013; 10am - 5pm each day
Where: Fourteen sites throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Scottsdale.
This year the ASU CRC Ceramic Tour Studio artists will once again be previewing their work at two galleries:
The Night Gallery, an Arizona State University sponsored space, Tempe Marketplace, 2000 E. Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ , February 1-24, 2013
http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/community/partnerships/night_gallery.php
ART ONE Gallery, Studio Tour Preview, Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ, February 17-23, 2013
Jesse Armstrong, Untitled Divide, porcelain, glaze,basswood, bleach, wax, 2010
Jaye Lawrence, Standing Figure #1, clay, wood, wire and paint, 18 x 5 x 8”, 2001
Les Lawrence, teapot, thin-walled hand-built porcelain
The clean seeds are drying on paper towels. When they are completely dry, I’ll put them in small paper envelopes to plant next spring.
A rare foggy winter morning in our Sonoran desert yard at Indigo Street Pottery.
Jeff Reich, Intertwined, glazed stoneware, 22 x 18 x 15“, 2012
Farraday Newsome, The Solace of Spring, glazed terra cotta lidded box, 18.5 x 13 x 14.5”, 2012
Farraday has been working on a commission for the Rochester, Minnesota Mayo Clinic for the past couple of months. The commission is for two platters, each approximately 26” in diameter, with high relief imagery of native flora and fauna of Minnesota.
They are nearing completion and the finished platters will be featured in next month’s newsletter.
The photos below are of the two proposal drawings, the two drying large greenware platters, and Farraday glazing one of the platters with birch trees and Eastern Swallowtail butterflies.