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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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April 2018 Newsletter

Indigo Street Studio 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 and garden musings.

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar

2. The 22nd San Angelo Ceramics National, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

3. Off the Table - Clay for the Wall, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Missouri

4. Docents Select VII: Works from the Permanent Collection, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Arizona

5. 39th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

6. Indigo Street Studio Native Landscaping

7. Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

August 26, 2017 - Summer 2018: A Shared Passion, Phoenix Airport Museum, T-4 Level 2, Phoenix, Arizona

January 20 - April 19, 2018: Docents Select VII: Works from the Permanent Collection, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

February 9 - April 15, 2018: 39th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona. Opening reception February 9, 6pm.

February 23 - March 25, 2018: Off the Table - Clay for the Wall, Potter Fine Arts Gallery, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Missouri

April 20 - June 24, 2018: 22nd San Angelo Ceramics National, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

April 28 - June 10, 2018: ArtTILE 2018, Indigenous Craft Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

July 2018: La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Docents Select VII:

Works from the Permanent Collection,

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

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“Off the Table - Clay for the Wall”

Western Missouri State University

Farraday Newsome has three pieces in the nationally juried exhibition Off the Table - Clay for the Wall at Western Missouri State University Potter Fine Arts Gallery. https://www.missouriwestern.edu/art/art-gallery/. To see other works in the show and the award winners, click https://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/clayguild/OffTheTableExhibition2018.html

Off the Table - Clay for the Wall was juried by Novie Trump, an Arizona-based sculptor and installation artist. http://www.novietrump.com

Where: Potter Fine Arts Gallery, Western Missouri State University, St. Jseph, Missouri,

When: February 23 - March 25, 2018

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Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

Farraday Newsome, Aspen Platter, glazed terra cotta, 16.5 x 16.5 x 4”, 2017

Farraday Newsome, Aspen Plate, glazed terra cotta, 12 x 8.25 x 1.5”, 2017

Farraday Newsome, Hummingbird and Brambles, glazed terra cotta, 10.5 x 10.5 x 1.5”, 2016

Because of this year’s mild winter, our kitchen garden has continued to support both warm and cool-weather vegetables and flowers. Colorful nasturtiums, whose flowers and leaves are a tasty, addition to salads, grow alongside lettuce, bell peppers and Red Russian Kale.

The current exhibition Docents Select VII: Kitchen Sink features artworks selected from the permanent collection of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona. Farraday Newsome has these two pieces in the show. They were selected from the permanent collection by Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum docent Jean Sammons.

The Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum writes about this show on their website:

As with most museums, the Mesa Contemporary Arts (MCA) Museum Docents are central to the functionality of the museum. Through their volunteer efforts and assistance, tours are conducted, artwork is researched, special talks are prepared and opening receptions succeed. This exhibition was entirely curated by the MCA Museum Docents and demonstrates some of the research they have conducted on pieces from the permanent collection the center around the kitchen.

For more information, click here

When: January 20 - April 8, 2018

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

Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome on Peralta Canyon Trail, Gold Canyon, Arizona.

We let our sunflowers go to seed this year since we had virtually no frost to kill these large, warm-weather plants. These are the densely-packed, heavy seed heads, their yellow petals fallen long ago. We’ll let the seeds dry, saving some for ourselves and some to plant later this year. We also periodically put one out on a table for the birds. The curved-billed thrashers will strip an entire 14” wide head in one day!

22nd San Angelo Ceramics National

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas

Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome each have work in the nationally juried 39th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition currently 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 Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality.

This year’s show was juried by Bruce Hoffman, Director of Gravers Lane Gallery in the historic Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia. http://www.graverslanegallery.com

The exhibition showcases 51 artworks by 46 artists, representing 16 states. Arizona artists include ourselves, Carol Alleman, Jesse Berlin, Nicholas Bernard, Michael Cajero, Tatiana Fitzpatrick, Marla Hattabaugh, Jeff Heeg, Suzanne Hesh, Elliott Kayser, Jane Kelsey-Mapel, Laura Korch, Patricia Manarin, Robert Michaelski, Cynthia Miller, Sherie Monsam, Jason Ripper, Kazuma Sambe, Clare Verstegen, and Steve Wolf.

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

When: February 9 - April 15, 2018.

For more information click here

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields, stoneware, 10 x 12 x 14”, 2017

Farraday Newsome, Luminous Night, glazed terra cotta lidded jar, 22 x 14 x 14”, 2015

39th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Farraday Newsome’s Brambles and Moths , above, will be in this year’s 22nd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition. The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts holds its San Angelo National Ceramic Competition every two years. This show is open to residents of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The exhibition was juried this year by Peter Held, contemporary art curator and former museum director. Mr. Held retired from his position as Curator of Ceramics, Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center in 2014 and now owns an art appraisal and consulting business in Phoenix, Arizona.

The show is the center of a weekend of ceramics-related museum events, including workshops, a symposium, show openings and a dinner.

For more information click: http://www.samfa.org/ceramic-competition-invitational

Where: San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, 1 Love St., San Angelo, Texas

When: April 20 - June 24, 2018, opening and awards reception 6:00 - 9:00 pm, April 20, 2018

We started these heirloom Purple Cherokee Tomatoes from seed last fall. Perfect for our spring salad season!

We’ve been planting and nurturing on our native-landscaped yard since we moved into our home/studio sixteen years ago. We started with a house (obscured by vegetation here!) and an empty acre-and-a-third lot that had been sorely abused by past occupants. It had been eaten to the ground by goats, then used to park semi-trailer trucks. We are so happy to see the desert revived, providing habitat for native birds, insects, lizards, and us!

It has been a dry winter, but we put in drip irrigation to the entire property when we first moved here, which helps tremendously. Above, our beautiful Coral Superb Penstemon (penstemon superbus).

Our Desert Holly (Berberis trifoliata) is also blooming. We saw some in the wild recently when we were hiking Peralta Canyon Trail in the nearby Superstition Mountains. The trail follows the steep drainage pattern of a narrow creek. The holly we saw wasn’t blooming, but the distinctive leaves were easy and delightful to spot.

The climbing snow peas are intertwined with nasturtiums, and the Mid-Pride Peach tree is flowering pink in the background.