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October 2011 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

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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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April 2016 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, Solo Show at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

3. Jeff Reich Sculpture Installed in Paradise Valley, Arizona

4. 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

5. A Recent Commission by Farraday Newsome

6. In Full Bloom, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

7. Desert Running

8. Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden Note

9. Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscaping Note

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 and garden musings.

Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

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Jeff Reich, Desert Erratic, stoneware sculpture with welded steel base, 68” h, newly installed at a private residence in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

In Full Bloom at Tohono Chul Park Gallery Tucson, Arizona

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Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges

Solo Show at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Jeff Reich, Recurrent Edges, 48” x 48”, acrylic on canvas, 2015

Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges continues to run at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona through April 17, 2016. This exhibition features Reich’s recent paintings and ceramic sculptures. https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/jeff-reich

37th Annual Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

February 12 - April 17, 2016: Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona http://www.mesaartscenter.com/art-exhibitions-contemporary-art-gallery.html

February 12 - April 24, 2016: 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/37th-annual-contemporary-crafts

February 19 - April 24, 2016: In Full Bloom, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona http://tohonochulpark.org/upcoming-events/

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Gallery statement:

This bowl is glazed in the colors of moonlight. A desert hawkmoth, its head buried in the pollen-laden, beautiful white flower of a Queen of the Night cactus, gathers nectar as it concurrently pollinates the flower. This occurs amidst intertwining cactus branches and egg clusters. The drifting watch alludes to biological time, the playing card to chance and random odds, while the eggs, flower and pollination refer directly to fertility and regeneration.

Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich, Queen of the Night, glazed terra cotta, 3.5 x 11.5 x 11.5”, 2007

This bowl, made collaboratively by Jeff Reich (wet clay) and Farraday Newsome (glazing), is on display at Tohono Chul Park Gallery’s current exhibition In Full Bloom.

The show runs February 19 through April 24, 2016. http://tohonochulpark.org/exhibits/

The 37th Annual Mesa Contemporary Crafts show runs through April 24, 2016 at the Contemporary Arts Museum (MCA) in Mesa, Arizona.

This annual exhibition highlights contemporary crafts from across the country. This year’s show was juried by Elisabeth Agro, The Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition will showcase 53 artworks by 34 artists representing 13 states.

https://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/37th-annual-contemporary-crafts

Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscaping Note

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Jeff Reich, Interwoven Fields, stoneware, 33 x 18 x 18”, 2016

Jeff Reich, Verdant, stoneware, 25 x 24 x 23”, 2016

Jeff Reich, Lake Effect, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48”, 2015

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Farraday Newsome, with friend Patti Dennis, lifting the lid on a box in the diptych Unseen Drift Through Immutable Clay, her piece in the 37th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.

photo courtesy of Leann Haws Brewer

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Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden Note

A mass of flowering Baja Spurge (Euphorbia xanti), a succulent shrub native to Baja California.

March is our favorite time in the kitchen garden. Winter vegetables like lettuce, chard and kale are still going strong, while summer crops like tomatoes and peppers are gaining a foothold. It is still pleasant to be outside with mornings cool and daytime temperatures mildly warm.

Jeff Reich Sculpture Installed in Paradise Valley, Arizona

Desert Running

A Recent Commission by Farraday Newsome

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Jeff (with Skye, our dog, behind him ready to run!) and Farraday at Usery Mountain Regional Park at sunrise before a five mile run. After over two years of dealing with a major ruptured ligament in her foot, Farraday is once again joining Jeff for desert trail runs! An initial incorrect diagnosis was followed by many months of misguided therapy and worsening symptoms. A second diagnosis and MRI resulted in immediate surgery. Happily, after the predicted full year of (slow!) post-op recovery, here we are!

Farraday Newsome helping to unwrap the bottom section of Jeff Reich’s sculpture for installation in a private Paradise Valley, Arizona residence.

The sculpture fully installed.

Jeff Reich, Desert Erratic, stoneware, 68”h

The contented collector taking in a view of the new art in her garden.

A second Jeff Reich stoneware sculpture, Winter Thorns, placed in the same residence.

This piece was made this spring for a private collector in Tempe, Arizona.

Farraday Newsome, Hummingbird Plate, glazed terra cotta, 8” x 8”, 2016

Arugula, green onions, lettuce, kale, and Swiss Chard. Yellow freesia for cut flowers is growing under a nectarine tree.

Collard greens and Swiss Chard.

Rainbow Swiss Chard - beautiful and a “super-food”!

Fragrant sweet peas trellised in front of the flowering Anna’s Apple tree. Many people are surprised to find us growing apples in the desert, but varieties like this one are desert adapted, delicious and very productive!

Our towering saguaros catching the low evening light. They will develop large flower buds soon for late spring/early summer flowering.

A mix of flowering yellow and red native chuparosas (Justicia californica) are a favorite natural nectar source for Anna’s and Black-chinned Hummingbirds.

This verdin nest is tightly woven into one of our Palo Verde trees, its small round entrance hole evident but protected.

Farraday, trail running.