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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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July 2016 Newsletter

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In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

2. Reflections of Arizona, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona

3. Fifth Annual Five15 to the Fifth, Five15 Arts, Phoenix, Arizona

4. Spain, Part 3

5. 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 and garden musings.

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Spain, Part 3

We were in Spain this past spring and wrote about our stays in in Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, and Granada in the past two months’ newsletters. This month we’ll cover the final leg of our trip: Malaga, Nerja, and Toledo!

Indigo Street Pottery Calendar

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June 23 - August 4, 2016: Reflections of Arizona, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona

July/August 2016: Annual Five15 to the Fifth Invitational, Gallery Five15, Phoenix, Arizona

September 30 - December 31, 2016: Tempe Center for the Arts Juried Biennial: CLAY, Tempe, Arizona

December 3-4 & 10-11, 2016: Indigo Street Pottery 2016 Holiday Studio Sale, Saturdays 10am- 4pm, Sundays 12pm - 4pm, at our home studio

February 25 & 26, 2017, 10am - 5pm: ASU Art Museum Ceramic Research Center’s 156h Annual Ceramic Studio Tour, Indigo Street Pottery will be a host site

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Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

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

Jeff Reich, Monocarpic, stoneware, 15 x 23 x13”, 2011

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields, stoneware, 16 x 19 x 18”, 2014

Farraday Newsome, In the Fullness of Time, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36”, 2015

Farraday Newsome and Jeff Reich have work in the summer exhibition Reflections of Arizona at the Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The show was curated by Constance McBride.

When: June 23 - August 4, 2016

Where: Shemer Art Center, Phoenix AZ http://www.shemerartcenter.org

The Shemer Art Center and Museum is an art education facility and gallery in the Arcadia district of Phoenix. It was founded in 1984 by Martha Shemer, who purchased a Mission-style house and three acres not only to preserve the property but to donate it to the City of Phoenix to be used for art education. Budget constraints nearly closed the center in 2010, but citizens founded the Shemer Art Center and Museum Association to help manage and preserve the facility.

Farraday Newsome working on initial charcoal sketch for In the Fullness of Time, 2015

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Five15 to the Fifth Invitational

Gallery Five15, Phoenix, Arizona

Five15 Arts
515 E. Roosevelt Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85004 www.five15arts.com

Five15 Arts presents: Fifth Annual Five15

July/August 2016

Five15 Arts is a member run art gallery in the heart of downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row Gallery District. For the fifth year in a row, our members will be exhibiting alongside five other artists they’ve invited to participate. All the artwork will be 12”x12”, resulting in a diverse salon style exhibition with over sixty works of art. We hope you’ll join us!

First Friday Opening Receptions, July 1 and August 5 from 6-10 PM; Third Friday Receptions, July 15 and August 15 from 6-10 PM Saturdays from 1-5 PM

Five15 Arts is hosting its fifth annual gallery invitational exhibition Five15 to the Fifth. Five15 Arts is a contemporary art space cooperative located on Roosevelt Row, a downtown Phoenix arts district. Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome were invited to participate by co-op artist Susan Risi. http://www.five15arts.com

Back in Arizona, we have fruit ripening in our garden. It is truly impressive that these plants can produce in the summer heat of the low Sonoran Desert!

Left to right: Mid-Pride peaches, jalapeno peppers, and Golden Dorsett apples.

Our peach tree and Texas Blue Giant fig tree are growing together, branches intertwined. We think they enjoy each other’s shade this time of year!

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Reflections of Arizona, Shemer Art Center

Farraday Newsome, In the Fullness of Time, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36”, 2015. Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome both have work in the summer exhibition Reflections of Arizona currently showing at the Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Malaga is the major seaport of Andalucia in southern Spain. A large, double-walled fortress was built on the hill overlooking the bay in the early 11th century when this region was part of Islamic Spain. The walled fortress, the Alcazaba, was a military structure that housed a palace. These photos show one of the old fortress towers and a glimpse into one of the beautifully maintained palace gardens.

The upper buildings of the Alcazaba house a small archaeological museum showcasing Malaga’s past. Since ceramics lasts through the ages, it often comprises the majority of the historical record at an archaeology site. It was nice to see several displays of recovered ceramic objects along with nicely illustrated explanatory posters about the area’s rich ceramic history.

From Malaga we took a bus along the Costa del Sol to Nerja, a town plagued by pirate raids in centuries past but now a charming Mediterranean seaside destination. We treated ourselves to a few days of beach lazing and small town exploration. Many of the streets are cobbled with beautifully designed black and white stone mosaic.

Here is a view of the Mediterranean Sea from the front plaza of our hotel, which was perched up on a seacliff protrusion called “The Balcony of Europe”.

Ah, Jeff enjoying seaside relaxation at its best!

Our last stay in Spain was in Toledo, just forty-five minutes by train south of Madrid. This hilltop city was the capital of Spain until 1561 when King Phillip II moved Spain’s capital to Madrid. This is the front of Toledo’s impressive cathedral, built from 1296 to 1495.

Adjoining the cathedral are the monks’ quarters, the central courtyard garden surrounded by vaulted hallways and numerous painted murals.

The enormous, elaborate High Altar of the Toledo Cathedral is carved from wood and covered in real gold.

The painter El Greco made his home in Toledo. The Toledo Cathedral is known for its large holdings of his work. A total of 19 El Greco paintings hang in the cathedral’s dedicated gallery, photo above.

With its pointed, vaulted arches and large windows, the Toledo Cathedral is predominantly Gothic. However, since it took over two hundred years to build, there are elements of other architectural styles such as Renaissance and Baroque.

Toledo was our last stay in Spain and we treated ourselves to a couple of nights in Spanish parador, inns which are converted historic buildings such as castles or monasteries. This one was the Hacienda del Cardenal. It was once a 17th century cardinal’s palace. For us, it was a perfect place for amarettos by moonlight to savor the final evenings of a wonderful trip.

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

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields, stoneware, 14 x 11 x 11”, 2015

Summer fruit harvests in the desert: We usually pick a basket or so every morning during coffee this time of year since it is getting so hot any later in the day.

Left: Santa Rosa plums and Golden Dorsett apples

Right: more apples, a couple of eggplants and Mid-Pride peaches

Farraday Newsome, The Tenderness of Spring, glazed terra cotta, 18 x 12 x 12”, 2015

Jeff Reich, Square Agave Plate, stoneware,10.5 x 10.5 x 1.5”, 2007