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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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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. 13th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour

3. 35th Annual Contemporary Crafts at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

4. Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa at NCECA 2014, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

5. Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

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!

Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

email: indigostreetpottery@me.com

April 2013 - May 2014: Phoenix: A Creative Oasis, group exhibition curated by Ted Decker for phICA (Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art), offices of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton http://phica.org/oasis.php

November 2, 2013 – May 4, 2014: Birds, Blooms and Bugs, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Terminals 2, 3, and 4, Phoenix, Arizona http://skyharbor.com/museum/ExhibitionsTerminal2.html

February 14 - April 13, 2014: 35th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/upcoming-art-exhibits/35thCraft

May 2014: Jeff Reich, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Galleries, Kean University, Union, New Jersey http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/

Fall 2014: 50 From 6: Contemporary Ceramic Art From Six Rocky Mountain States, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah https://www.suu.edu/pva/artgallery/

May 16 - July 5, 2015: Farraday Newsome, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York

http://www.clayartcenter.org/default.asp

Photo above: Tiffany Bailey, center, was one of our three guest artists during the recent 13th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Studio Tour. Some of Tiffany’s work for this event can be seen on the white tablecloths. To Tiffany’s right is Jilli Davis, one of our wonderful cashiers for the weekend. Jeff Reich’s work is in the foreground. This was Indigo Street Pottery’s 12th year as a host site for this event!

Photo courtesy of Peter Held, Curator of Ceramics at the Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center

Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

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Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa at NCECA 2014 Milwaukee WI

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is the visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center, located in Mesa, Arizona. In five stunning galleries, MCA showcases curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists. MCA also offers lectures by significant artists and arts professionals, art workshops, and a volunteer docent program.

The exhibition runs February 14 - April 13, 2014.

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/upcoming-art-exhibits/35thCraft

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Farraday Newsome, wall-hanging glazed terra cotta works.

Left: Genetic Drift Cloud Tile, glazed terra cotta, 16 x 14 x 4”, 2012.

Right: Tender Moonlight Cloud Tile, glazed terra cotta, 10.5 x 12.5 x 3”, 2012.

Jeff Reich, Allthorn, glazed stoneware sculpture, 23 x 18 x 18”, 2012

35th Annual Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

13th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour

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This was Indigo Street Pottery’s twelfth year as host site for the Arizona State University Art Museum annual free, self-guided ceramic studio tour. Studio ceramists across the Valley opened their studios to hundreds of visitors for the 2-day tour. The weather was perfect and we had a great turnout. Many thanks to everyone who came by!

Our guest artists this year were Jesse Armstrong, Tiffany Bailey, and Joan Waters. Along with finished work for sale by all five of us, we demonstrated techniques we use.

You can visit the Ceramic Studio Tour’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ceramics-Studio-Tour/274600532039?ref=ts

asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter

Farraday Newsome will be showing this place setting in Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa (The Table) exhibition at the upcoming 2014 NCECA (National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts) 47th annual conference. http://www.santafeclay.com

http://www.santafeclay.com/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions.html

This year NCECA will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Conference dates are March 19-22, 2014.

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

Jeff Reich (in blue and black shirt) discussing his work with studio visitors.

Photos from this year’s Ceramics Studio Tour

Farraday Newsome (in red) talking with studio visitors Bryan White and his wife Miro. Jeff Reich’s work in foreground; guest artist Tiffany Bailey’s work in the background.

Guest artist Joan Waters (striped pink shirt) standing in front of guest artist Jesse Armstrong’s platters.

Studio visitors in guest artist Joan Waters’ display area. Joan had mixed media metal and ceramic pieces on display

Jesse Armstrong’s mixed media wood and ceramic pieces; Jeff Reich’s red and black wall tile; Farraday Newsome’s bird sculpture.

Photo courtesy of Peter Held.

Farraday Newsome’s glazed terra cotta work. Photo courtesy of Peter Held.

Guest artist Tiffany Bailey, seated at left, demonstrating slip-casting. Guest artist Jesse Armstrong standing in background, plaid shirt.

Guest artist Tiffany Bailey demonstrating slip-casting. Photo courtesy of Peter Held.

Photos above: Jeff Reich and Faraday Newsome both have work in the current 35th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona.

Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country, Mesa Contemporary Arts’ Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition looks for for innovation and quality. This year’s show was juried by independent curator Julie Muniz and showcases 46 artworks by 35 artists, representing 14 states.

This has been a great winter for snow peas! Our hedge of them is 20 feet wide and they have been very prolific!

It’s spring in the Sonoran desert!

Left photo: The peach trees are blooming (rear, pink-flowered) and some of the winter vegetables are going to seed. The center stalk with tiny yellow and white flowers is a carrot going to seed. We staked it, letting it take its time to produce seeds.

Right photo: The spiky, little carrot seeds up close, still green and immature.

The Chinese Cabbage, a loose-leaf cabbage, is also going to seed. The green, twig-like sticks on the stems below the yellow flowers are immature seed pods.

Left photo: After two years of great production, the Lacinato (AKA Dragon) Kale is finally going to seed. The tiny broccoli-like flowerbuds are emerging on the central stalk. Dragon Kale is a biennial (two-year lifespan). What a champion!