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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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June 2019 Newsletter

Indigo Street Studio Newsletter

Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It’s 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, and garden.

Indigo Street Studio Calendar

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This month Reich’s piece was successfully bisque fired, taking several days to candle and then slowly fired to temperature. This photo was taken just after the kiln was lit.

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Indigo Street Studio Native Landscape Note

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Adorned, New Orleans Clay Center New Orleans, Louisiana

June 8 - August 31, 2019: Material Impulse: A Confluence of Clay Artists, ARC Contemporary Fine Art, Cottonwood, Arizona. Opening reception: 2nd Saturday Art Walk, June 8.

June 14 - October 4, 2019: Roadside USA, i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa, Arizona. Opening reception June 13, 5-7pm

July and August 2019: Eighth Annual Five15 to the Fifth Invitational Exhibition, Five15 arts @ Chartreuse, Phoenix, Arizona. Receptions: First Fridays July 5th and August 2; Third Fridays July 19 and August 16. All receptions 6-10 pm.

September 6 - 28, 2019: Adorned, New Orleans Clay Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Jeff Reich Races

Brian Mickelson Half Marathon

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar

2. Roadside U.S.A., i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa, Arizona

3. Material Impulse at ARC Contemporary Fine Art, Cottonwood, Arizona

4. Adorned, New Orleans Clay Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

5. Studio Work in Progress

6. Jeff Reich Runs Half-Marathon in Cottonwood, AZ

7. Indigo Street Studio Native Landscape

8. Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

Farraday Newsome, Dark Blue Teapot with Sunflowers and Bird, glazed terra cotta, 9 x 13 x 6”, 2019

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Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden Note

Farraday Newsome will have this Coral Bowl with Dogwood Flowers and Swallowtail Butterflies in the upcoming show Adorned at the New Orleans Clay Center from September 6 through 28, 2019. The bowl is glazed terra cotta, measures 3.75” h x11.25” d, and was made in 2017.

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Studio Work in Progress

This recently commissioned sculpture by Jeff Reich has been slowly drying for the past month. Its construction was featured in our February 2019 Newsletter.

Jeff Reich, accompanied by our dog Skye, came in 1st in his age group and 9th overall in the half marathon at the recent 11th Annual Brian Mickelsen Memorial Walk/Run in Cottonwood, Arizona.

The event honors Brian Mickelsen, the beloved former Cottonwood city manager who died tragically and mysteriously in 2007 while out on a typical morning run. Brian's wife has overseen every year of the race, making sure the event lives up to her late husband's standards.

During this year’s event we saw many city workers racing and volunteering at the event. Funds have gone to various causes over the years, including the Search Dog Unit of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Response Team.

Roadside U.S.A.

i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa, Arizona

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Photo above: Bowl with Aspens, glazed terra cotta, 10” diameter x 2.75” depth, 2018

Farraday Newsome will be included in the upcoming summer show Roadside USA at the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, Arizona. Twenty-one artists from across the country, including Arizona, will be represented in this exhibition. Museum art-making activities and interactives will focus on exploring the five regions of the United States. Newsome’s work, featuring imagery of aspens and their leaves, will be among works with a Rocky Mountain and Northern Arizona theme.

https://www.ideamuseum.org/museum-events/

Where: i.d.e.a.Museum, 150 Pepper Place, Mesa, Arizona 85201

When: June 14 - October 4, 2019

Farraday Newsome, Shallow Bowl with Aspens, glazed terra cotta, 11.25” diam. x 2” depth, 2017

Farraday Newsome, Square Plate with Aspens, glazed terra cotta, 9” x 9” x 1”, 2017

Another recent commission for Farraday was a set of tiles and bowl in a poppy motif. Above is a behind-the-scenes peek of the testing often involved in developing a new idea. In this case, a preliminary line-blend test tile of orange to red glaze (with a brushed yellow glaze overlay) to determine the poppy colors, then a preliminary poppies test tile. This photo also shows the commissioned tiles and bowls with charcoal drawing and initial glazing.

A fired, completed set!

After we published this photo of in-progress greenware by Farraday Newsome in the February 2019 Newsletter, some of our readers asked for “after” photos when the works were finished. Thank-you for asking and here they are!

The teapot in the upper left greenware (wet clay) photo was a commission with a request for a sunflower motif. Here is the finished teapot!

These two lidded jars are, respectively, in the lower left and lower center of the greenware photo. They were recently shown with ARC Contemporary Fine Art during NCECA in Minneapolis, MN (an event featured in our April 2019 and May 2019 Newsletters).

Photos above: Two of our younger trees (top: grapefruit; bottom: lemon) with a fresh ring of wood chips. We have a wire cage cylinder around the base of each tree to prevent chips and moisture from rotting the trunks. This was a good gardening chore to do before the summer heat set in!

We recently ordered a load of wood chips (free!) from a local tree trimmer and piled them around many of our fruit trees. Not only do the wood chips act as a moisture-retaining mulch, but they enrich the soil with slowly released nitrogen as they break down. The tree trimmers were happy to oblige since it saves them a pricey trip to the dump where the chips would end up in the landfill.

The spring bloom season of colorful desert annuals is over, but now it’s time for a second show: desert perennials!

Photos, clockwise from above left: Beavertail Prickly Pear (Opuntia basilaris), native to the American southwest and northern Mexico; Tecoma alata, (formerly known as Tecoma stans ‘Orange Jubilee’, origin Peru; Bougainvillea ‘Barbara Karst’, origin South America.

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Material Impulse at ARC Contemporary Fine Art, Cottonwood, AZ

ARC Contemporary Fine Art has brought the exhibition Material Impulse: A Confluence of Clay Artists back to the gallery from its recent installation for the NCECA (NationalI Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference in Minnesota. ARC Contemporary Fine Art

photo credit: ARC Contemporary Fine Art

Where: ARC Contemporary Fine Art/Manheim Gallery, 747 North Main Street, Cottonwood, Arizona 86326

When: June 8 - August 31, 2019. Opening reception: 2nd Saturday Art Walk, June 8.