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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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February 2015 Newsletter

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. 36th Annual Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

3. 14th Annual ASU Ceramic Studio Tour

4. Farraday Newsome Solo Show and Workshop at the Clay Art Center, New York

5. Farraday Newsome Workshop at Santa Fe Clay, Summer 2015

6. Tempe Arts Center: Birds of a Feather

7. 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

Farraday Newsome Workshop at Santa Fe Clay, Summer 2015

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Farraday Newsome Solo Show and
Workshop at the Clay Art Center, New York

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36th Annual Contemporary Crafts at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Farraday Newsome, Tender Moonlight Cloud Tile, wall-hanging glazed terra cotta, 13 x 13.5 x 4”, 2012

Farraday Newsome

Florabundance!

July 20 – 24

Some handbuilding experience necessary.

Farraday Newsome is known for her vessels that are exuberantly developed with three-dimensional imagery, and sumptuously glazed with a colorful variant of the maiolica technique. Her subject matter is primarily drawn from nature, and her surfaces are vivid and painterly. In this workshop, participants will begin by constructing a sample high-relief wall tile from red terra cotta clay to be used for experimentation with richly saturated, glassy and colorful maiolica glazes by week’s end. Participants will then spend the week constructing a larger slab-built vessel form that will be developed three-dimensionally with press-molded elements and additions. Boxes, teapots, bowls and vase forms all lend themselves to the sculptural possibilities of this building method.

Farraday Newsome received her BA in Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MA in Art with a Ceramics Emphasis from San Francisco State University. Newsome’s work can be found in many public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Arizona State University Fine Art Museum. She exhibits and lectures extensively, is an instructor at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, and has served on the Artist’s Advisory Board of the Ceramic Research Center at ASU in Tempe, AZ. Farraday and her husband, Jeff Reich, own and operate Indigo Street Pottery in Mesa, AZ.

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

January 2 - January 30, 2015 : Arizona State University CRC Ceramic Studio Tour Preview Exhibition, Night Gallery, Tempe Marketplace, Tempe, Arizona http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/community/partnerships/night_gallery.php

February 18 - April 5, 2015: 36th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/upcoming-art-exhibits/36thcrafts

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, Unseen Drift, 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

February - April 2016: Jeff Reich solo show, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/art-exhibitions-contemporary-art-gallery.html

Farraday Newsome will be conducting a week-long workshop, July 20 - 24, 2015, at Santa Fe Clay as part of their celebrated Summer Workshop Series. Santa Fe Clay is a wonderful ceramics-dedicated enterprise that houses studio space, gallery space and a ceramic supply store.

The information below is from the Santa Fe Clay website,

http://www.santafeclay.com

Farraday Newsome: Unseen Drift

solo exhibition featuring the decorative terracotta and majolica vessels and sculpture of Arizona artist Farraday Newsome

May 16 - July 4, 2015

Artist Statement

My home and studio are in the Sonoran desert city of Mesa, Arizona. I share my studio with fellow ceramic artist and husband, Jeff Reich.

I have worked within the format of the vessel for over twenty years, exploring ideas of lushness, sadness, time, and grace. My surfaces are very painterly. I am interested in the combination of painterly space with the actual space of the three-dimensional piece. For the past five or six years I have been glazing fields of natural and artificial objects that have personal symbolic meaning . These are generally familiar objects, such as watches, fruit, dice, shells, seedpods, eyeglasses, bones and insects. My personal narrative becomes a freeform drift open to association.

My clay is a red terra cotta. The first layer on my bisqueware is a coat of either white glaze or black glaze. This sets up a general light or dark atmosphere, and emotional intent can be developed from there. My imagery is built up by brushing multiple layers of colored glazes on top of the white or black glaze ground.

Farraday Newsome will have a solo exhibition titled Unseen Drift at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, May 16th through July 4th, 2015. In conjunction with the show Farraday will be conducting a two-day, hands-on workshop May 16th and 17th.

For workshop information and registration: http://www.clayartcenter.org/Workshops_s/73.htm

The Clay Art Center, http://www.clayartcenter.org/default.asp, is a non-profit organization, has been serving the Port Chester ceramics community for over fifty years.

The information below about Farraday’s show is from the Clay Art Center’s website,

http://www.clayartcenter.org/Current_Upcoming_Exhibitions_s/267.htm

Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome will have work in the upcoming 36th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. Jeff was further honored by being selected for the Juror’s Choice Award, the show’s grand prize, which carries with it a cash award and a one-person exhibition in 2016!

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is the visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center, located in Mesa, Arizona. In five stunning galleries, 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 Mike and Jennifer Tansey, owners of Tansey Contemporary in Santa Fe, NM . http://tanseycontemporary.com. The exhibition will showcase 49 artworks by 29 artists, representing 12 states. It runs February 13 - April 5, 2015.

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/upcoming-art-exhibits/36thcrafts

Jeff Reich, Desert Emergence, glazed stoneware triptych, 16 x 48 x 9”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Interwoven, glazed stoneware, 18 x 17 x 14”, 2012

Jeff Reich, Ocotillo, glazed stoneware, 14 x 13 x 3”, 2013

Jeff Reich, Agaves, glazed stoneware, 23 x 19 x 2”, 2012

Tempe Arts Center: Birds of a Feather

Farraday Newsome will be included in the Gallery at Tempe Art Center’s upcoming summer exhibition Birds of a Feather. The show will run June 19 - September 19, 2015.

http://www.tempe.gov/city-hall/community-services/tempe-center-for-the-arts/gallery-at-tca

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Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

Farraday Newsome, Agave Bird, Unseen Drift series, glazed terra cotta, 33 x 18 x 18”, 2009

Farraday Newsome, Fern Bird, Unseen Drift series, glazed terra cotta, 28.5 x 17 x 16”, 2009

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13th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum

Ceramic Studio Tour

This will be Indigo Street Pottery’s twelfth year as a host site for the Arizona State University Art Museum’s annual free, self-guided ceramic studio tour. Studio ceramists across the Valley will open their studios to hundreds of visitors for the 2-day tour February 21 & 22, 2015.

Indigo Street Pottery, site #14 on the map, will feature artwork and demonstrations by hosts Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich, along with guest artists Tiffany Bailey, Director of Ceramics at Phoenix College, and Jesse Armstrong, Director of Ceramics at Mesa Arts Center.

The full-color 2015 Ceramic Studio Tour map/brochures is available at the Ceramic Research Center of the ASU Art Museum, located in the Brickyard complex in at downtown Tempe (if you want to stop by and pick one up. Their hours are Tuesdays through Saturday 11am-5pm

asuartmuseum.asu.edu/ceramicsresearchcenter.

You can also view the entire brochure online, complete with images of each artist’s work, the map, demonstration schedule, and site descriptions by clicking http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/studiotour/documents/AMUSEUMCeramicStudioTour2015-Brochure_FINAL.pdf

When: February 21 & 22, 2015; 10am - 5pm each day

Where: 14 sites throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and Scottsdale.

This year the ASU CRC Ceramic Tour Studio artists will be previewing their work at two galleries:

January 2 - January 30, The Night Gallery, an Arizona State University sponsored space, Arizona State University CRC Ceramic Studio Tour Preview Exhibition, Tempe Marketplace, 2000 E. Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ,

http://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/community/partnerships/night_gallery.php

February 14 -22, 2015, ART ONE Gallery, Studio Tour Preview, Marshall Way, Scottsdale, AZ, February http://www.artonegalleryinc.com/

Jesse Armstrong, #34, clay, wood, mixed media, 37 x 24 x 2.5”, 2014

Jesse Armstrong, #36, clay, wood, mixed media, 33.5 x 17 x 3”, 2014

Tiffany C. Bailey, slip-cast cone 6 porcelain with drawing, 2014

Photos Below: Studio shots of Work in progress for the show

Drying greenware: a pair of tall, lidded jars.

Drying greenware: two teapots and three lidded boxes.

These three pieces have been bisque fired. Two have an initial coat of black glaze on them in preparation for further detailed white glazing over the black.

Photos above, clockwise from upper left: Arugula planted densely in a “cut-and-come-again” row; Italian Red Treviso Radicchio; purple-veined Russian Kale; the Pak Choi; bright green Simpson Black-Seeded Lettuce and Red Oak Leaf Lettuce.

Farraday has been busy in the studio this past month making new work for her May 2015 solo show at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY. This newly completed and drying lidded box is part of an ongoing Persephone series. The upper half will be glazed in bright colors of summer and the bottom half in darker colors of winter.

Photos above from the 2014 CRC Ceramic Studio Tour, clockwise from upper left:

Farraday talking to visitors Brian White and fellow potter Miro Chun; Jeff with studio visitors; Jesse Armstrong and Tiffany Bailey with visitors; Tiffany Bailey demonstrating slip casting technique.

Farraday Newsome, Garden of Butterflies and Shells, glazed terra cotta lidded box, 13.5 x 10 x 10”, 2014

Farraday Newsome, Drift Garden Jar and Jar with Oranges and Yellow Bird, glazed terra cotta, each approx. 9x7”, 2014

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields, glazed stoneware, 16 x 16 x 4.5”, 2014

Jeff Reich, glazed stoneware sculpture, 10 x 10.5 x 11”, 2014

No frost for over a month in the low desert this winter has meant a bounty of greens in the garden. Our favorite vegetable this time of year might be the pak choi. It’s so crispy and mild cooked or raw, but we really love them all!