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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!

4 San Antonio, Texas Visit

1 Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

5 Arizona Desert Running

6 Indigo Street Pottery Garden Notes

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. 11th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour

3.Santa Fe’s La Mesa Exhibition at NCECA 2012 Seattle, WA

4. San Antonio, Texas Visit

5.Arizona Desert Running

6.Indigo Street Pottery Garden Notes

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!

March 28 - 31, 2012: La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA 2012 Seattle, Act Theatre, Seattle, Washington http://www.santafeclay.com/

May 4-26, 2012: Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome, 2-person exhibition, Plinth Gallery, Denver, Colorado http://plinthgallery.com/

May 5-6, 2012: Farraday Newsome hands-on workshop at Plinth Gallery http://plinthgallery.com/

July 26 - October 21, 2012: Contemporary Ceramics, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona http://www.tohonochulpark.org/wordpress/

1 Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

Left: Blooming native barberry (Berberis trifoliata)

Middle: Fruiting Habanero pepper that came up as a volunteer, flowering and setting fruit through the winter!

Right: Agave flowerstalk towering up through the mesquite tree canopy, with buds just getting ready to open

Above: Jeff ran the 10K Ethan’s Run, a fundraiser benefitting families through the Nick and Kelly Childrens Heart Fund, to provide financial help to children/families battling congenital heart defects. Jeff got a medal for third in his age class, with a time of 48:54. http://ethansrunaz.com/

Left: We both recently ran a 5K event called The Color Run, where volunteers tossed a different color (food safe powder) on the runners at each kilometer mark. This race wasn’t timed or anything - just a fun time. Proceeds benefitted Banner Health Cardon Children’s Medical Center http://thecolorrun.com/arizona/

Below: Our beloved desert trail in the Usery Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona that we run every week.

Above, clockwise: The entry pagoda at the Japanese Sunken Gardens; Mary Irish and Farraday Newsome at the San Antonio Botanical Garden (large greenhouse in the background); the dragon bridge down in the Japanese Sunken Gardens.

Below: While we were in Texas, Jeff, his daughter Lauren, and Farraday, ran a 5K called Too Cold to Hold, sponsored by the running store Run On where Lauren works. Lauren was an 8-time All American college runner at DePauw University, Indiana. Jeff pulled down 1st place and a medal in his age class, with Lauren happily running as his pacer. Farraday came in a respectable 5th in her age class, but alas no medal!

3 Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa at NCECA 2012 Seattle, WA

Farraday will be showing her Lidded Platter with Oranges, Pomegranates and Blue Butterflies in Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa at NCECA exhibition at the upcoming 2012 NCECA (National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts) 46th Annual Conference. http://www.santafeclay.com/

This year NCECA will be held in Seattle, Washington. Conference dates are March 28-31, 2012.

http://nceca.net/static/conference_home.php

We had a great turn-out and perfect weather for the recent Arizona State University Art Museum’s 11th Annual Ceramic Studio Tour. Indigo Street Pottery was one of thirteen sites. It was our 10th year as a host site. This year our guest artists were Les Lawrence, Jaye Lawrence, Sherrie Zeitlin, and Jesse Armstrong. We had a wonderful time meeting so many people interested in studio ceramics!

Photos above, left to right: Jeff Reich demonstrating stiff slab construction for his sculptures; Sherrie Zeitlin demonstrating her pinch-built sculptural birds; Les Lawrence demonstrating how he gets his silkscreened imagery onto porcelain slabs.

Photos above, left to right: Jesse Armstrong demonstrating how he makes his press-molded, slip-dipped sculptural parts; Farraday Newsome demonstrated the use of pounce patterns and her method of maiolica glazing.

Photos above, left to right: Visitors Don Perry and Jim Bruce examining Les Lawrence’s work, with Jaye Lawrence’s work in the foreground; life-size mixed media sculpture by Jaye Lawrence; Jesse Armstrong (in plaid) talking with visitors Chris Baxter and John Hasenmiller near Sherrie Zeitlin’s bird sculptures.

Photo above:

Left: A view of the studio with Sherrie Zeitlin’s work in the left foreground, Jeff Reich’s work in the center, and Farraday Newsome’ work to the upper left and rear.

Right: Jaye Lawrence mixed media sculptures hanging to the left, Jesse Armstrong’s mixed media sculptures hanging to the right and on the pedestals.

While we were in San Antonio, Texas recently we visited the Japanese Tea Garden (Sunken Gardens), a fantastic other-worldly space constructed down in an old quarry back in 1915.

http://visitsanantonio.com/visitors/play/attraction-details/index.aspx?id=2668

We also visited the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. This outing was especially great since we were with our long-time friends and Southwest plant experts Mary and Gary Irish.

Jeff Reich demonstrating slab-building technique at the recent Arizona State University Art Museum’s 11th Annual Ceramic Studio Tour.