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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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November 2015 Newsletter

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. the Collapse, Phoenix AZ

3.Cups: Hundreds of Cups, Santa Fe Clay

4.Studio Paintings

5. Indigo Street Pottery a Site for Desert Rivers Audubon Tour de Bird

6. Jeff Reich Runs 2015 St. George Marathon, Utah

7. 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

Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

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October 16 - November 10, 2015: the Collapse, Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA)

http://phica.org, in conjunction with 25th International Sculpture Conference, Phoenix

http://sculpture.org/az2015/

November 7, 2015: Tour de Bird, a Backyard Bird Habitat event sponsored by the Desert Rivers Audubon Chapter of the National Audubon Society, Indigo Street Pottery’s native landscaped yard will be a site. http://www.desertriversaudubon.org

November 12, 2015 - February 14, 2016: Taking Flight, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ

http://tohonochulpark.org/upcoming-events/

December 5 - 6 & 12-13, 2015: Indigo Street Pottery 2015 Holiday Studio Sale, Saturdays 10am- 4pm, Sundays 12pm - 4pm, at our home studio

December 11, 2015 - January 23, 2016: Cups: Hundreds of Cups!, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM http://www.santafeclay.com/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions.html

February 12 - April, 2016: Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/art-exhibitions-contemporary-art-gallery.html

February 20 & 21, 2016, 10am - 5pm: ASU Art Museum Ceramic Research Center’s 15th Annual Ceramic Studio Tour, Indigo Street Pottery will be a host site asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter

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“Cups: Hundreds of Cups!”, Santa Fe Clay

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“the Collapse” exhibition, Phoenix AZ

This is one of Jeff Reich’s new paintings for his upcoming solo show of paintings and sculptures at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. It is acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”, 2015. The show is titled Recurrent Edges and opens February 12, 2016.

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Jeff Reich Runs 2015 St. George Marathon, Utah

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Studio Paintings

Jeff Reich, Desert Emergence series, glazed stoneware,12 x 14 x 9”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Desert Emergence series, glazed stoneware, 15 x 16 x 9”, 2014

Farraday Newsome’s work will be included in the upcoming holiday exhibition Cups: Hundreds of Cups! at Santa Fe Clay. The show runs December 11, 2015 through January 23, 2016. Santa Fe Clay is located in the Railyard Arts District in Santa Fe, NM.

http://www.santafeclay.com

Farraday Newsome, Dark Blue Cup with Oranges and Dogwood Flowers, glazed terra cotta, 4 x 6 x 4.5”, 2015

Farraday Newsome, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36”, 2015

Jeff Reich, right, with Phoenix Free Soles teammate Dave Hurdle (in team shirts) with finishers medals at the 2015 St. George Marathon, Utah.

Jeff Reich and his other running group, the Las Sendas Run-Bike-Tri Club, (and in that team’s shorts) with teammates Cory Hove, Kristina Hansen, and Leann Brewer.

the Collapse brings together five artists working in ceramic sculpture who engage with themes of sustainability:

Jesse Armstrong http://www.jessearmstrongart.com

Jeff Reich https://indigostreetpottery.com/Site/Home.html

Patricia Sannit http://www.patriciasannit.com/Patriciasannit/home.html

Sheetal Shaw http://www.studioboteh.com/about.html

Jonah Amadeus Skurky-Thomas http://www.jonahamadeus.com

Collectively, they explore subjects surrounding our environment, political structures, destruction, history, time, exposure, architecture, disease, growth, and the resilience of the natural world.

Curated by Cory J. Rogers, the Collapse underscores the possible outcomes when environmental concerns are left unchecked.

Exhibition dates October 16 – November 14, 2015

Opening reception: October 16, 2015 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

International Sculpture Conference reception: November 5, 2015

the Collapse closing reception: November 6, 2015 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Photographic collage by Cory Rogers, curator of the Collapse, of work by the five artists in the show. Clockwise from upper left: Patricia Sannit, Jesse Armstrong, Jeff Reich,

Sheetal Shaw, and Jonah Amadeus Skurky-Thomas.

Indigo Street Pottery a Site for Desert Rivers Audubon Tour de Bird

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Our site is called The Reich-Newsome Habitat. We are located at 6931 E. Indigo St, Mesa Az 85207 https://indigostreetpottery.com/Site/contact.html

Desert Rivers Audubon describes our yard: Over the last 10 years this 1.3 acre wildscape has been transformed from barren landscape to a lush desert wildlife oasis with native trees and shrubs.

Photos below, clockwise from top left: A few of the birds we commonly see at Indigo Street Pottery (AKA Reich/Newsome Habitat for the Audubon event) include the Gilded Flicker, Verdin, Gambel’s Quail and Lesser Goldfinch.

Indigo Street Pottery will be one of a number of backyard bird habitat sites selected for the upcoming Desert Rivers Audubon Tour de Bird event. Desert Rivers Audubon is a chapter of the National Audubon Society. http://www.desertriversaudubon.org

http://www.desertriversaudubon.org/programs-events.html#directLink

This fundraiser helps support the Desert Rivers Audubon conservation efforts and their Backyard Bird Habitat program. The tour is self-guided, with two Audubon volunteers at each site all day to assist visitors. The event is Saturday, November 7, 2015, from 9am to 4pm. Bring your binoculars!

From their website:

The annual birds and gardens event, Tour de Bird, is Saturday November 7th. Local gardens in the East Valley will be on display with a variety of plants to suit all gardeners. Ranging from one with 150 native trees to others making the best use of a small space. There are gardens with water features and a chance to see beautifully landscaped gardens for our Arizona birdlife!

Habitat Map & Location Descriptions

Click the map to download a PDF copy.

Click HERE to get full resolution pdf of Habitat Map.

TICKET PURCHASES: Tickets for this self guided tour are $10 each in person and will be on sale at the Desert Rivers Audubon’s meetings or visit their online Nature Store to purchase your tickets online at $11.00 ea. Tickets will also be available for purchase at any of the habitats on the day of the tour for $15.00.

Left: We will be selling our popular birds-on-a-wire during this event with 10% of proceeds going to Desert Rivers Audubon. These glazed terra cotta birds are epoxied to solid copper wire & perfect for in the yard or a planter. $30 each as always.

From a Desert Rivers Audubon press release for the event:

Desert Rivers Audubon is a local chapter of the National Audubon Society and is, therefore, first and foremost a group of people who love birds. Studying birds, however, should lead to a more acute realization of birds as just one aspect of the natural world and foster an appreciation of the whole system, the habitat in which those birds, and we humans, survive.

The Desert Rivers Habitat Recognition Program grew out of our wish to acknowledge those people who were willing to help our native wildlife prosper by making a commitment to turn some part of our landscape into a natural habitat. The criteria are simple, do you plant native plants? Do you provide water and shelter for insects, birds and animals? Do you keep your watering requirements to a minimum? Simple to say, but not always simple to implement.

Our website, www.desertriversaudubon.org , has an “Audubon at Home” page where you can read more about the requirements that lead to a habitat being recognized as wildlife friendly. There you can also find sources of help if you want to turn your own backyard space into a wildlife friendly area.

Balancing the needs of the wildlife and the aesthetic feelings of gardeners can be challenging so we are therefore tremendously pleased to recognize the Indigo Pottery habitat and include them in our November 9th Tour de Bird. This is an event designed to educate people on making their landscapes wildlife friendly by sending them on a self guided tour of several backyards and public habitats to show them different styles and approaches.

We look forward to the tour and hope your habitat will prove an inspiration so that others will learn how to share our desert home with our native flora and fauna.

We started these winter vegetable seedlings a few weeks ago up on a table to keep them safe from sowbugs, small beetles, lizards and other soil-dwelling creatures that love to devour tender seedlings. The seedling table is inside our garden enclosure, which, being covered on the top and all sides with 1/2” chicken wire, protects them from birds (especially cure-billed thrashers!) that love to dig around, uproot and eat seedlings. Our seedlings include snow peas, pak choy, chard, kale and arugula. We’ll get them in the ground soon though, so they can get established before the customary first frost in late November.

Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich are both working on paintings in the studio amidst new clay work. The studio has become very dense with so much going on! Below are photos of two new paintings, one by each of us.

Jeff Reich, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24”, 2015

Opening night of the Collapse a five person show curated by Cory Rogers for the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA) Emerging Curator Initiative as part of its OnLoaded 3 series. http://phica.org

Left photo: Jeff Reich with his wall sculpture Desert Emergence

Right photo: Gallery visitors during the opening, including Heather Lineberry (orange top), Senior Curator/Associate Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum

The show was organized in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference to be held in Phoenix November 7 -11, 2015. http://sculpture.org/az2015/.