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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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January 2019 Newsletter

Indigo Street Studio Newsletter

Welcome to our monthly newsletter! It’s 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, and garden.

Indigo Street Studio Calendar

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar

2. Ceramic+ at MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona

3. 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

4. Frank Gonzales, Untamed, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ

5. Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

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Ceramic+ at MCC Art Gallery Mesa Community College

Mesa, Arizona

The Art Gallery at Mesa Community College, Dobson Branch, is currently featuring Ceramic+, an invitational ceramics exhibition.

The gallery show statement: Clay. A magic material that allows you to make something out of nothing. A friendly and familiar substrate, clay is a medium that mirrors what artists and designers alike do best: create a new idea or object to help, to inspire, and to communicate. This invitational exhibition will demonstrate concepts in contemporary ceramics with work from professional, local artists using clay alone, or blended with other materials or mediums. Gallery information

Where: The Gallery at MCC, Mesa Community College, Dobson Campus, Mesa, Arizona

When: November 26, 2018 - January 25, 2019. The gallery will be closed during holiday break December 24, 2018 - January 1, 2019

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Frank Gonzalez exhibit “Untamed”

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ

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40th Annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Mesa, Arizona

Farraday Newsome, Dark Blue Bowl with Oranges, Birds, and Shells, glazed terra cotta, 8.5”h x 16” x 16”, 2017

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Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

November 26, 2018 - January 25, 2019: Ceramic+ at MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, Dobson Campus, Mesa, Arizona. Free public reception Thursday, December 6th, 6-9pm. Gallery closed during holiday break December 24, 2018 - January 1, 2019. more information

February 8, 2019 - April 21, 2019: 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, opening reception February 8, 7pm. museum information

Images on poster from top, clockwise: Sandra Luehrsen, AZ Trophy #2, Mirage #9, and Mirage #7; Nicholas Bernard, Sunset Topography; Jeff Reich, Agave Fields

Arizona painter Frank Gonzales currently has an exhibition of his paintings at the Ottosen Gallery in the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. This masterful, dynamic show showcases Gonzales’ interest in the relationships between Sonoran Desert flora and fauna.

For gallery information click. For artist’s website click.

Where: Ottosen Gallery, Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ

When: September 21, 2018 - January 6, 2019

The heavy crop of guava fruits that set earlier this fall continues to develop. We’ll see if they mature and ripen in the winter cold.

Left to right: Susan Beiner white wall piece; Patricia Sannit figurative pedestal piece; Jonah Skurky-Thomas video featuring an underwater clay structure; Halldor Hjalmarson lidded jar; Jeff Reich foreground Allthorn pedestal piece; Patricia Manarin pedestal pieces; Patricia Sannit video; Jeff Schmuki video and ceramic sound installation (behind visitor)

Foreground vessel by Nick Bernard; Kazuma Sambe pedestal pieces to right.

Patricia Sannit leaning wall piece.

Susan Beiner wall piece.

Three vessels by Sandy Blain.

Sculptural plate by Halldor Hjalmarson.

Farraday Newsome will have this bowl in the upcoming nationally juried 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona.

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is the visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. The MCA showcases curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists. Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country, Mesa Contemporary Arts Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality.

This year’s show was juried by Luiza deCamargo, Associate Curator at the Society of Arts and Crafts. There will be fifty-three pieces by fifty selected artists.

Where: Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, One East Main, Mesa AZ 85211

When: February 8, 2019 - April 21, 2019. Public reception 7-10pm February 8, 2019

For more, click museum information.

The invitational ceramics show Ceramics+ is currently on display at the Mesa Community College Art Gallery in Mesa, Arizona.

Photo, left to right: Magda Gluszek figurative work; Farraday Newsome wall triptych; Jeff Reich sculpture on foreground pedestal; Nick Bernard vessel to the right and behind Reich’s sculpture; Jesse Armstrong white wall sculptures; and Eric Boos red and orange sculptures. More photos in story below.

Frank Gonzales, Night Breed, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48”, 2018

Frank Gonzales, Grounded, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24”, 2015

Frank Gonzales, Specimen II, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72”, 2016

Frank Gonzales, Sonoran Summer, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48”, 2014

Happy New Year!

Our organic kitchen garden is thriving! Summer vegetables continue to grow amidst winter greens, which are in full production mode now. Nights are cool enough that the background fig and peach trees are changing color and shedding their leaves. Our go-to greens dinners include kale and arugula pesto, beans & greens with roasted tomatoes, and kale & potato soup (Portuguese caldo verde).

The snow peas are getting tall and starting to flower. Soon there will be peas!