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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. Indigo Street Pottery 2014 Holiday Studio Sale

3. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s Visions Teen Program Workshop at Indigo Street Pottery

4. Cups for the Cause

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

Cups for the Cause

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2014 Indigo Street Pottery Holiday Studio Sale

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Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

Jeff Reich, long platter, glazed stoneware, 17 x 7 x 1”, 2014

October 5, 2014 - April 19, 2015: The Seven Cs of Arizona, Terminal 4 Gallery, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

December 6, 7 & 13, 14, 2014: Indigo Street Pottery 2014 Holiday Studio Sale, both Saturdays 10am- 4pm, both Sundays 12pm - 4pm, at our home studio

December 11 - 24, 2014: Cups for the Cause, benefiting Free Arts of Arizona, Objects, Scottsdale, Arizona

February 21 & 22, 2015, 10 a.m.– 5p.m. both days: ASU Art Museum Ceramic Research Center’s 14th Annual Ceramic Studio Tour. Indigo Street Pottery is a site with host artists Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome, and guest artists Jesse Armstrong and Tiffany Bailey.

asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter

March 25 - 28, 2015: La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA 2015, Providence, Rhode Island

http://www.santafeclay.com/

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

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

May 16 & 17, 2015: Farraday Newsome, Artist Workshop, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York http://www.clayartcenter.org/default.asp

July 20 - 24, 2015: Farraday Newsome, Artist Workshop, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Clay, New Mexico www.santafeclay.com

A portion of sales will go to benefit Free Arts of Arizona, a non-profit organization that provides creative arts experiences for homeless and abused children. The event will be held December 11 - 24th, 2104.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s Visions Teen Program Workshop at Indigo Street Pottery

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This year’s Indigo Street Pottery Holiday Studio Sale will once again be held the first two weekends of December:

Saturday, December 6 10am - 4pm

Sunday, December 7 12pm-4pm

Saturday, December 13 10am - 4pm

Sunday, December 14 12pm - 4pm

We will have beautiful work in a wide price range, with plenty under $50 and on up to collector range. We are delighted that you make time to visit and give us a chance to catch up with how you’ve been this past year. Also, garden tours for the asking!

For driving directions, click here!

These are three of the six glazed terra cotta cups that Farraday Newsome will show in the upcoming group show of Cups for the Cause, a curated benefit event at Objects in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Left: We have a large new flock of our popular birds-on-a-wire. These are glazed terra cotta and stoneware birds epoxied to solid copper wire & meant for putting in the yard or a planter or whatever you dream up! $30 each as always.

Below: Farraday Newsome, Lidded Black Jar with Blue Leaves, 2014

Farraday Newsome, “Night Orchard Vase”, glazed terra cotta, 16 x 13 x 13”

Above: Jeff Reich, hanging square plates that incorporate his distinctive desert botanical drawings within textural color compositions.

Above: There are also new, full scale sculptures by Jeff Reich in the showroom, such as this cube, Agave Fields, 17 x 18 x 18", 2014.

Below: Jeff Reich’s long, functional serving trays have become a customer favorite. He has made an assortment of beautiful new ones for our holiday studio event. Each is 17” long, 2014.

Above: Jeff has also been working on a series of new, smaller scale sculptures, such as the two pieces above, each approximately 7-8” in their largest dimension.

Below: Farraday Newsome will have an assortment of work during this holiday studio sale event, ranging in scale from small plates, luminarias and lidded jars to larger pieces such as teapots, vases and wall sculptures.

This year we planted two kinds of snow peas, green and yellow. The yellow snow peas (in the photo above) are new to us and sport pretty purple flowers. So far we like the color of this new variety but prefer the taste and overall plant vigor of the traditional green snow peas.

The lima beans are still producing heavily. This year we planted Pima Orange, an heirloom variety that we got from Tucson’s Native Seed Search. The large, light pinkish-orange beans inside the green pods cook up with a creamy, nutty flavor.

Winter in the Sonoran Desert has been mild so far, no frosts or freezes yet. Many of our summer vegetables, such as the peppers, cucumbers and beans, are still producing. Planted among the them are maturing winter vegetables such as kale, snow peas, lettuce, pak choi, and broccoli raab. Some of the kale, a biennial, is two years old now and producing on tall stalks. We continue to practice organic gardening techniques, the mainstay of which is applying a thick layer of homemade compost several times a year. The soil continues to improve and is now a very dark brown-black, in contrast to the pale native desert soil we began with five years ago.

Photo above: The absence of frost plus the heavy rains we received in September have resulted in many areas outside the kitchen that are also lush this year. Above is a calamondin bush (a sweet-skinned sour-fleshed citrus, much like a large kumquat) mingling with magenta bougainvillea and native yellow-flowering brittlebush.

Photo above: A visit to Indigo Street Pottery wouldn’t be complete without a walk down through our desert wildscaping for a visit to the kitchen garden!

Above: Farraday talking with workshop participants about the work Jeff Reich and she make in their studio.

Above: Farraday Newsome with local high school students participating in the Visions Teen Workshop at Indigo Street Pottery.

Farraday and Jeff hosted a one-day workshop at Indigo Street Pottery for a dozen teens participating in SMoCA’s Visions Teen Program. These kids were great, listening carefully, asking good questions and working hard on their projects! They learned Farraday’s glazing technique, creating their own designs on prepared tiles. The best thing was their wonderful enthusiasm for art ideas and for art objects.

SMoCA's Visions Teen Program, now in its sixteenth year, brings together approximately 40 high-school art students from diverse Phoenix metropolitan-area high schools for a year-long series of activities designed to cultivate artistic skills, collaboration and civic engagement. The program was founded in 1999 and is based on a strong community partnership between the Museum and participating schools, which represent economically, ethnically and culturally diverse communities.

Farraday Newsome, Lidded Black and White Jar with Birds and Shells, 2014

Farraday Newsome, Light Blue Teapot with Yellow Birds, 2014

Farraday Newsome, Dark Blue Bowl with Oranges, 2014 and assorted cups, 2014.

Farraday Newsome, Winged Drift Vase, glazed terra cotta, 11x 16 x 6.5”, 2014

Farraday Newsome, Vase with Oranges Swallowtail Butterflies and Open Cocoon, glazed terra a cotta, 14 x 12 x 8", 2014