August 2013 Newsletter

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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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1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. New Work in the Studio

3. 33rd Annual Art Auction at Anderson Ranch

4. Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

5. The Roosevelt Growhouse

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

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Photos above, left to right: After the broth steeps, pour it through a colander that’s sitting inside a large bowl. Store/freeze extra broth for future use. (The cooked vegetable remains left in the colander will NOW go in the compost!)

April 15 - December 31, 2013, Phoenix: A Creative Oasis, group exhibition curated by Ted Decker for phICA (Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art) in the offices of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton http://phica.org/oasis.php

April 27 - December 1, 2013: Same Difference, Phoenix Airport Museum Terminal 3, Phoenix, Arizona http://skyharbor.com/museum/ExhibitionsTerminal3.html

August 10, 2013: Anderson Ranch 33rd Annual Art Auction, Snowmass Village, Colorado www.andersonranch.org

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

October 2014: Farraday Newsome, one-person exhibition, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York

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New Work in the Studio

The Roosevelt Growhouse, Phoenix, Arizona

Jeff Reich, Desert Nights series, glazed stoneware platter, 12 x 16 x 1.5”, 2013

Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

Jeff Reich, Interwoven, glazed stoneware, 8.25 x 11 x 9.5”, 2013

Farraday Newsome, Light Blue Teapot with Dogwood Flowers and Oranges, glazed terra cotta, 8.5 x 11.25 x 5.5”, 2008

Part of cooking from the garden and using lots of fresh vegetables with our plant-based diet is that we generate plenty of peelings, pits, stems, skins, etc. every week. We used to directly compost these raw vegetable scraps, but then we realized that we could so easily make our own vegetable broth. Since we were already frustrated by the sodium content and priciness of canned vegetable broth, this was an epiphany! So now we accumulate the scraps for about a week in a container in the refrigerator and then make broth. We use the broth to cook rice, soup, sauce bases, etc. Any extra we freeze in Pyrex glass containers. It is so good!

Photos above, left to right: A week’s worth of vegetable trimmings; Cover with water and bring to simmer; Simmer for about 45 minutes, turn off, cover and let steep for several hours.

We were recently walking around the downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Arts District and came upon this wonderful complex of gardens and an artists’ boutique. The Roosevelt Growhouse began in November of 2008 as a collaboration between two artists, Kenny Barrett and Kelly Placke, and as a partnership with the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation. It’s original focus was current creative activity on the community-based politics of food. The Growhouse functions as collaborative art, performance and social experiment. They created a vegetable garden in a visible location, reclaiming neglected public space in the right-of-way. The project demonstrated growing food (in lieu of a lawn) and encouraged others to do the same. http://kennybarrett.com/growhouse/?page_id=2

In February of 2011 the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, a 501c3 nonprofit, adopted the Roosevelt Grow Collective Garden at the Growhouse as part of their vacant lot activation program called A.R.T.S. (Adaptive Re-use of Temporary Space). Today, the urban farm is a place to learn about urban desert farming, sustainable living, healthy eating and edible landscaping. The garden prides itself on providing fresh veggies to markets and cafes within blocks of where they were grown. http://thegrowhouse.blogspot.com

Photo above: We loved the deeply mulched trench gardening at the Roosevelt Growhouse. Our own kitchen garden is planted in sunken beds, so it was great to see it done so successfully elsewhere! It was inspiring to see this particular sunken bed planted densely with tomatoes that shaded each other. Plus, they received further relief from the desert summer sun in the partial shade of palm trees planted to the south.

Top photo: Edible gardens have replaced the front lawn at the Growhouse in the downtown Phoenix Art district Roosevelt Row. The GROWop is an artists’ boutique in the original house on the property.

Bottom photo: A pizza oven built on the Roosevelt Growhouse garden grounds.

This summer Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome will once again be participants in the Annual Art Auction at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado. The event will be held August 10, 2013. The 2013 33rd annual Art Auction website, which will preview the amazing array of artwork featured in the live and silent auctions, will be available later this summer. http://www.andersonranch.org/events/index.php?page=auction

Each summer art lovers and community members support the Ranch by bidding on a wide range of artwork created by artists from throughout the valley and around the country. More than 200 artworks will be auctioned in live and silent auctions. Benefitting the educational programs of Anderson Ranch Arts Center. For more auction information visitAnderson Ranch is a learning community dedicated to creativity and growth through the making and understanding of the visual arts located on five scenic acres in Snowmass Village, near Aspen, Colorado. It promotes personal and professional development of artists of all levels of expertise through year-round workshops in ceramics, sculpture, photography, new media, painting and drawing, printmaking, woodworking, furniture design and more. Their artists residencies for emerging and established artists, summer internships, visiting artists and critics, community outreach, and public events offer a full spectrum of opportunities to creative people of all levels. The facilities feature fully-equipped art studios and galleries. Anderson Ranch programs and activities including art auctions and artist slide lectures, attract thousands of artists, art-lovers, students, faculty and patrons annually to this historic Rocky Mountain ranch dedicated to the fine art. To learn more about this beautiful art center visit http://www.andersonranch.org/ .

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This has been a great year for peaches! We have two trees: one is a Mid-Pride (pictured above) and the other is Eva’s Pride. The Eva’s were ripe in June - a few weeks before the Mid-Pride - so that extended the season nicely.

We’ve enjoyed many peach crisps, plus we’ve frozen peach crisp filling for future peachless times. Filling: Mix well in a large bowl: sliced peaches, date sugar (or maple syrup), a little lemon juice and a couple of Tbsp cornstarch mixed in cold water. Slide it all into a large pot and simmer until peaches are just cooked but still have good color. Stir occasionally as the cornstarch thickens it up slightly. Put that into a baking dish, leaving room at the top for crisp topping.

Crisp topping: about a cup of quick oats, a cup of whole wheat flour, and a 1/2 cup of ground-up walnuts or almonds (food processor!), maple syrup to taste, cinnamon to taste. Stir well. Add a bit of water until it all clings together a little.

Drop clumps of the crisp topping onto the filling and gently spread it around. Bake at 350 about half an hour - it goes pretty fast, especially if the filling is hot already. Enjoy!

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33rd Annual Art Auction at Anderson Ranch

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Farraday Newsome, Extravagant Night, 16 x 12 x 12”, glazed terra cotta vase, 2013

Farraday Newsome, Night Garden, 12.5 x 5.5 x 5.5”, glazed terra cotta lidded box, 2013

Jeff Reich, Desert Night series, glazed stoneware oval platter, 12 x 16 x 1.5”, 2013

Jeff Reich, Desert Night series, glazed stoneware rectangular tray, 16.5 x 7 x 1”, 2013