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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 2020 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. 41st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

3. A Bowl of Christmas Cheer from Winfield Gallery

4. A Winter Hike in Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona

5. Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

Our recent 2019 Holiday Studio Event was a resounding success! Thank-you to everyone who came by! If you would like to visit our studio during the rest of the year, please do not hesitate to email us at indigostreetpottery@me.com or call at 480-310-9426.

February 14 - April 19, 2020: 41st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona. Opening reception February 14, 7pm. more information

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Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

Cool weather dark kale grows amidst the dill, lettuce, and chard. The white frost cloth in the rear is covering low-growing nasturtiums, which like cool but not freezing weather.

We’ve had above average rainfall this year and the Sonoran Desert is lush! We saw this gorgeous, pink-flowering Flat-top Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) in full bloom during a recent end-of-year hike in Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona. Behind it, Teddy Bear Chollas (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) taller than a person catch the morning light.

Jeff Reich, Allthorn, stoneware, 9 x 9 x 10.5”, 2018

Farraday Newsome,Twilight, glazed terra cotta jar, 8 x 8 x 8”, 2019

Happy New Year!

41st Annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Mesa, Arizona

Photos above: Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome will show the works above in the 41st Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.

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 Museum’s Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality. Representative of traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts, this exhibition showcases 60 artworks by 51 artists, representing 12 states. This year’s show was juried by Patty Haberman, former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.

Arizona artists in the show this year include ourselves, Rameen Ahmed, Carol Alleman, Tiffany Bailey, Sue Berzelius, Sandy Blain, Cathi Borthwick and Sharon Richards, Jonathan Brown, Danielle Embry, J. Paul Fennell, Zach Gardon, Colleen Gripentrog, Grace Hart, Marla Hattabaugh, Tod Hoyer, Stephen Johnson, Jane Kelsey-Mapel, Sandra Luehrsen, Cynthia Miller, Sharie Monsam, George Penaloza, Colleen Quigley, Cheri Reckers, Jason Ripper, Dana Senge, Junya Shao, Lynn Smith, Jo Van Loo, David Voght, and Danielle Wood.

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

When: February 14 - April 19, 2020. Public reception 7-10pm February 14, 2020

For more information and a few images, click here

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A Bowl of Christmas Cheer from Winfield Gallery

It was a great surprise to see Winfield Gallery use this image of Farraday Newsome’s bowl as a recent gallery holiday greeting captioned “A Bowl of Christmas Cheer from Winfield Gallery!”

I am happy to be represented by this fine arts gallery in Carmel, California. The owner, Chris Winfield, is a noted painter and gallerist who has supported the arts for many years.

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Chris Winfield paintings

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A Winter Hike in Usery Mountain Regional Park

Mesa, Arizona

We took a walk on a recent cool, clear morning in nearby Usery Mountain Regional Park, located in east Mesa. Here’s a view of Pass Mountain, the largest feature in the park. Saguaros, chollas, palo verde trees, ironwood trees, and barrel cacti abound!

The Superstition Mountains rise to the east. It was in the mid-30‘s F that morning and we could see snow on the furthest ranges (upper left).

The two of us bundled up, and Skye in her little red jacket! Snakes are hibernating this time of year, but all three of us were thrilled to see a deer bounding through desert brush and a roadrunner trotting along the trail ahead of us. Sorry, no photos of that!

The recent, mildly freezing mornings have left the winter vegetables unaffected. These include kale, lettuce, chard, snow peas, arugula, and radishes. On the other hand, our warm weather vegetables, like tomatoes and peppers, did need covering. Their wire supports offer an excellent frame on which to clothespin frost cloths. Skye makes it into another photo!

The snow peas are trellised on the south-facing side of our vegetable enclosure. These reliable champions grow 8 feet high every year! We cover them if the temperatures drop into the 20’s F, but it hasn’t gotten that cold yet.