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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 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.

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In this Issue


1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar


2. 41st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona


3. What Lies Beneath, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California


4. Studio Work in Progress


5. A Winter Hike in Mesa, Arizona

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


February 14 - March 14, 2020: What Lies Beneath, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California

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Winter is the best time to make new wet clay work in the desert, so we are both back in the studio working on new pieces. Pictured above is a group of faceted pots by Jeff Reich, ranging in height from 4” to 6”.

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

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

41st Annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Mesa, Arizona

Photos above: Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome will be showing these works in the upcoming 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, paper making and book arts, this exhibition showcases 60 artworks by 51 artists, representing 12 states. This year’s show was juried by Patty Haberman, Curator  Emeritus of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.


Arizona artists in the show this year include Jeff Reich, Farraday Newsome, 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 the online exhibition catalog, click here

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What Lies Beneath

Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California

Farraday Newsome will be showing Unseen Drift Through Immutable Clay, a pair of glazed terra cotta boxes, 13 x 8 x 8” each, in the upcoming national show What Lies Beneath at the Epperson Gallery in Crockett, California. What Lies Beneath was juried by artist Lisa Clague.  Lisa Clague Sculpture


The Epperson Gallery is a contemporary ceramic art gallery. It was founded in 1996 and is located in the historic district of Crockett, California, an East Bay port city. The gallery shares it’s building with artists’ studios and several other businesses. http://eppersongallery.com 


Where: Epperson Gallery, 1400 Pomona Street, Crockett, CA 94525

When: February 14 - March 14, 2020 with opening reception February 16, 4-6pm

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A Winter Hike in Mesa, Arizona

We’ve had good winter rains in the Sonoran Desert and are now hoping for a great wildflower season. Maybe it’s already begun! While out with a hiking group, Farraday (black cap, rear middle) spotted a lovely Shrubby Deervetch (Lotus rigidus) in bloom, AKA Bush Trefoil or Desert Rock Pea. This shrubby legume grows to approx. 3’ in diameter, blooming February through May.

That’s Mt. McDowell (commonly known as Red Mountain) in the rear, located on Salt River Pima-Maricopa tribal land. It was named after General Irvin McDowell, a union officer in the Civil War, and not to be confused with a different mountain, McDowell Peak, eleven miles away.

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Studio Work in Progress

This group of Jeff Reich‘s faceted vases are drying and awaiting a bisque firing.

Farraday Newsome glazing a new vase.

Jeff Reich loading his bisque kiln. Dinnerware!

Photo above: An entire Shrubby Deervetch, stock photo.

Photo to right: Taken during our hike, which was in east Mesa on the Maricopa Trail system in the hills south of the Salt River.

Jeff has been making a series of smaller works, including dinnerware and the faceted pots below. Cool winter days are the best time here in the Sonoran desert to work with wet clay. Keeping the clay uniformly moist during the making process becomes increasingly difficult as we head towards summer.

Farraday has been finishing some glazing this month, but will be turning to wet clay soon!