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October 2011 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

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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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March 2016 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, Solo Show at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

3. 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

4. Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum Docents Visit

5. La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA 2016

6. 15th Annual ASU Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour

7. In Full Bloom, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

8. Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscaping 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 and garden musings.

Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

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Jeff Reich’s solo show, Recurrent Edges, at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona runs February 12 through April 17, 2016. photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

In Full Bloom at Tohono Chul Park Gallery Tucson, Arizona

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Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges

Solo Show at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Jeff Reich, Recurrent Edges, 48” x 48”, acrylic on canvas, 2015

Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges runs February 12 - April 17, 2016 at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona. The show features Reich’s recent paintings and ceramic sculptures. https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/jeff-reich

37th Annual Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

15th Annual ASU Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour

February 12 - April 17, 2016: Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona http://www.mesaartscenter.com/art-exhibitions-contemporary-art-gallery.html

February 12 - April 24, 2016: 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/37th-annual-contemporary-crafts

February 19 - April 24, 2016: In Full Bloom, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona http://tohonochulpark.org/upcoming-events/

March 16 - 19, 2016: La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA 2016, Kansas City, MO http://nceca.net/2016-kansas-city/

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La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA 2016

Kansas City, MO

Gallery statement:

This bowl is glazed in the colors of moonlight. A desert hawkmoth, its head buried in the pollen-laden, beautiful white flower of a Queen of the Night cactus, gathers nectar as it concurrently pollinates the flower. This occurs amidst intertwining cactus branches and egg clusters. The drifting watch alludes to biological time, the playing card to chance and random odds, while the eggs, flower and pollination refer directly to fertility and regeneration.

Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich, Queen of the Night, glazed terra cotta, 3.5 x 11.5 x 11.5”, 2007

This bowl, made collaboratively by Jeff Reich (wet clay) and Farraday Newsome (glazing), is on display at Tohono Chul Park Gallery’s current exhibition In Full Bloom.

The show runs February 19 through April 24, 2016. http://tohonochulpark.org/exhibits/

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (MCA) is the visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center, located in Mesa, Arizona. The MCA showcases curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists.

The Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition highlights contemporary crafts from across the country. This year’s show was juried by Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition will showcase 53 artworks by 34 artists, including Farraday Newsome, representing 13 states. It runs February 12 - April 24, 2016.

https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/37th-annual-contemporary-crafts

Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscaping Note

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This was Indigo Street Pottery’s fourteenth 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 opened their studios to hundreds of visitors for the two-day tour, February 20 & 21, 2016.

Indigo Street Pottery featured artwork and demonstrations by hosts Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich, former Director of Ceramics at the Mesa Arts Center, along with guest artists Tiffany Bailey, Director of Ceramics at Phoenix College, and Jesse Armstrong, Director of Ceramics at the Mesa Arts Center.

Arts writer Lynn Trimble wrote a comprehensive guide to all fourteen sites for the Phoenix New Times newspaper before the event: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/asu-art-museum-ceramic-studio-tour-2016-a-field-guide-to-the-metro-phoenix-event-8008060

and, after visiting all fourteen sites, compiled a terrific slide show, also for the Phoenix New Times:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/artists-open-studios-during-the-2016-asu-ceramic-studio-tour-8077114/31

Thank-you Lynn Trimble and the Phoenix New Times!

Jesse Armstrong, our other guest artists during the recent ASU Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour, discussing his work.

photo credit: Lynn Trimble for the Phoenix New Times newspaper

Slipcast porcelain work by Tiffany Bailey, one of our guest artist during this year’s ASU Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour.

photo credit: Lynn Trimble for the Phoenix New Times newspaper

Work by Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich in the foreground and wall-hanging work by Jesse Armstrong, along with painting by Farraday Newsome, at Indigo Street Pottery during the 15th Annual ASU Art Museum Ceramic Studio Tour.

Indigo Street Pottery studio was transformed into a temporary showroom for the 2016 Ceramic Studio Tour. Work to the right by Jeff Reich, work to the left and rear by Farraday Newsome.

Farraday Newsome will be showing Winter Forest, a place setting, at Santa Fe Clay’s La Mesa exhibition for the upcoming 2016 NCECA (National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts) 50th annual conference. NCECA will be held in Kansas City, Missouri this year. Conference dates are March 16 -19, 2016.

http://www.santafeclay.com/la-mesa/

http://nceca.net/2016-kansas-city/

Jeff Reich, Interwoven Fields, stoneware, 33 x 18 x 18”, 2016

Jeff Reich, Verdant, stoneware, 25 x 24 x 23”, 2016

Jeff Reich, Lake Effect, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48”, 2015

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Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum Docents Visit

The Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum docents group recently visited our studio, Indigo Street Pottery. We had a great time showing them our garden, native landscaping, studio and showroom. photo courtesy of Cinda Smith, docent leader

Farraday Newsome is set to lift the lid of Persephone’s Year of Gain and Loss box for one of the inquisitive (and moving!) docents. photo courtesy of Donna Bruner

Jeff Reich with docent Faith Oberstein, a Museum Studies Arts and Culture Advocate, in the Indigo Street Pottery garden. photo courtesy of Donna Bruner

Jeff Reich speaking to the group about his multi-section sculpture Desert Erratic.

photo courtesy of Donna Bruner

We’ve been waiting ten years for this stately yucca to bloom! Yucca faxoniana, beautiful!

Farraday Newsome (seated) demonstrating her glazing technique, a variant on traditional maiolica. All four artists demonstrated over the course of the two-day ASU Ceramic Studio Tour, an annual, self-guided, free event. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/studiotour/

Jeff Reich with his wife and fellow ceramic artist, Farraday Newsome.

Jeff Reich with Mesa Mayor John Giles.

Jeff Reich with long-time friend and fellow artist David Manje. photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

Jeff Reich with his son Josh Reich and Josh’s girlfriend Brittany Nicole Lowrey.

photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

Jeff with some of his Las Sendas Running Club friends. Left to right: Karl Ahlgren, Kristina Hansen, Cory Hove, Leann Haws Brewer and Jeff Reich.

Recurrent Edges show opening, photo composite courtesy of Linda Kuehne

Farraday Newsome, with friend Patti Dennis, lifting the lid on a box in the diptych Unseen Drift Through Immutable Clay, her piece in the 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum,.

photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

Jeff Reich talking with friends and collectors Judy and Frank Haggard.

photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome talking with museum docent Donna Bruner.

photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

The first burgeoning flower stalk of this lovely gray-blue yucca, Yucca rigida, whose silvery color is best during evening twilight.

Red and orange Chuparosas (Justica californica) light up our spring landscape after the El Nino winter rains.