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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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July 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.

Update: In these extraordinary times health and safety are a top priority. We feel fortunate to have a home studio and are busily creating new work. We are taking orders and shipping, and would be delighted to work with you via the internet or in masked & socially distanced small groups in the studio. indigostreetpottery@me.com

Indigo Street Studio Calendar

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Roadside U.S.A.

i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa, Arizona

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Kiln opening! Farraday Newsome, Large Platter with Oranges, Swallowtail Butterflies, and Dogwood Flowers, glazed terra cotta, 24” diameter x 6.5” high, 2020

Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

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23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

San Angelo, Texas

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DelecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining

Art Students League of Denver Denver, Colorado

NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION

Juror: Liz Zlot Summerfield

Where: Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant St., Denver, Colorado 80203

When: Gallery closed and show delayed due Covid-19. Show tentatively planned to be online, with online sales.

These two dishes by Farraday Newsome, Butterfly Dessert Bowl and Butterfly Cup, will be in the upcoming exhibition DelecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining - Fifth Biennial Juried Exhibit of Functional Ceramics at the Art Students League of Denver. Exhibition images are available for viewing online https://asld.org/delectable-2020/

This national biennial was juried by studio ceramist Liz Zlot Summerfield.

The Art Students League of Denver is a community of artists enjoying the opportunity to study many media with regionally and nationally known artists. Modeled on the famous Art Students League of New York, The Art Students League of Denver first opened its doors in 1987 with a handful of recognized artists teaching over one hundred students within its first year. Today, located in the historic Sherman School in the West Washington Park area at 200 Grant Street, ASLD engages over 900 students a month with over 200 noted artists who teach diverse fine arts classes throughout the year. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, ASLD is supported by private donations, tuition, foundation grants, and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.

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Farraday Newsome is showing Day, a glazed terra cotta jar, in the 23rd San Angelo Ceramic National. This juried exhibition occurs every two years and is open to artists from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

This year’s juror was Jo Lauria, a Los Angeles-based curator, writer and educator. A former curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lauria is a specialist in the fields of design, craft, and the decorative arts with particular emphasis on modern and contemporary studio ceramics. She is the organizer of several national touring exhibitions as well as author of numerous publications: biographies that chart the lives and work of contemporary designers and craft artists; and survey books that chronicle major movements in the field. Most recently she received the American Ceramic Circle Book Award for Ralph Bacerra: Exquisite Beauty. Currently she is a contributing writer to Ornament Magazine, Mentor Faculty of Otis College of Art and Design, and Adjunct Curator of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (California). https://www.jolauria.com

For more information and juror Jo Lauria’s video presentation, click: http://www.samfa.org/ceramic-competition-invitational

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

When: June 12 - September 6, 2020

Farraday Newsome, Day, glazed terra cotta jar, 8 x 9.5 x 10.5”, 2019

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Studio Work In Progress

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar

2. Studio Work In Progress

3. Lip Service, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuylerville, New York

4. 23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

5. DelecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining, Art Students League of Denver, Denver, Colorado

6. Indigo Street Studio Kitchen Garden

DelecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining, Art Students League of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Gallery closed due to Covid-19. This show is tentatively planned to be an online exhibition with online sales https://asld.org/delectable-2020/

June 12 - September 6, 2020: Twenty-Third San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas. http://samfa.org/current-exhibits

August 22 - September 26, 2020: Lip Service, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuylerville, New York https://www.saratogaclayarts.org/events/lip-service

The only winter green still producing in the Sonoran summer heat is our stalwart, indefatigable Portuguese Kale. It’s like a hardy collard, kale’s close relative. We were given the seeds for this heirloom from an elderly Portuguese man who emigrated to the United States from the Azores, islands off the Portuguese coast, many years ago. He brought seeds with him and we are grateful for that and for his subsequent decades of seed-saving!

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Lip Service

Saratoga Clay Arts Center

The Saratoga Clay Art Center will be presenting Lip Service, a national juried exhibition of drinking vessels. All works will be for sale in the gallery and in the art center’s online shop https://www.saratogaclayarts.org/shop. The show was juried by Massachusetts ceramic artist and writer Mary Barringer. marybarringer.com

For a slide show and more information, click: https://www.saratogaclayarts.org/events/lip-service

Where: Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schacht Gallery, 167 Hayes Road, Schuylerville, NY

When: August 22 - September 26, 2020. Opening reception 5-7pm, August 22, 2020

Farraday Newsome, White Cup with Oranges and Light Blue Band, glazed terra cotta, 4.5 x 6 x 4.5”, 2019

Mid-Pride peaches! Our apricot, plum, and nectarine trees are finished for the year, but this low-chill peach variety is bridging the fruit gap until the Flavor Grenade pluots (plum-apricot hybrid) and figs ripen. With our daily highs around 110 F, it is the height of the hot season in the low Sonoran desert and this sweet, juicy fruit is very welcome!

Farraday Newsome has also been busy! Here she is masked up and carefully doing some touch-up sanding on a large, greenware terra cotta platter. Fragile!

Loaded safely! Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome together held this platter under its outer rim with spread fingers to lower it into the kiln! Yikes! It will be such a relief to have it bisque fired to cone 1 - so much stronger than this current raw clay state!

Farraday’s platter came through the bisque well, and now it’s set up to be sprayed with a foundation of stiff, cone 05, white maiolica glaze. Farraday has learned through the years that the stiff white glaze, onto which she paints colorful glaze imagery, has far less risk of crawling if it is sprayed rather than brushed or poured. However, since it is nearly impossible to brush colored glazes onto fragile, raw sprayed glaze, the platter goes back into the kiln for an intermediate sinter firing at cone 014. This sets the cone 05 glaze to an immature but permanent and sturdy state. It will be rough, matte, and tough enough to withstand charcoal drawing, sponging with water, and painting glazes with a brush.

The large, sinter-fired platter has been brush painted with many layers of cone 05 glazes and is now ready for its third and final firing: the cone 05 glaze firing.

Farraday Newsome, first look at Large Platter with Oranges, Butterflies, and Dogwood Flowers, glazed terra cotta, 24” diameter x 6.5” high, 2020, will be wired to hang. The platter, loaded onto the top shelf of a fully packed kiln, has been glaze-fired to cone 05 and slowly cooled for two days. A fully packed kiln helps everything heat evenly and slowly, and cool evenly and slowly. This translates to less potential cracking from heating & cooling stress. It came out perfectly!

Jeff Reich has been busy making dinnerware! He uses the same waxing and sgraffito imagery techniques as on his sculptures, and all with food safe glazes!

The West Coast gas kiln is being loaded with Jeff’s work. This will be a cone 10 reduction firing.

With a first peek into the cooled kiln, everything looks terrific! The cone pack at the bottom right indicates a perfect cone 10 firing: the 8 & 9 guard cones are down, the cone10 is fully bent, and cone11 is soft and slightly bending.

Fresh out of the kiln, a Jeff Reich stoneware salad plate, 10” diameter. x 1.25” high, 2020. It has glaze sgraffito imagery of althorn, a native Sonoran plant. Sgraffito is the Italian word for scratching, and is used to describe the technique of scratching line drawings into raw glaze before firing.

Jeff Reich, cone 10 gas-fired stoneware dinner bowl, glaze sgraffito imagery of althorn desert plant, 10” diameter x 2.5” high, 2020.

Jeff Reich, dinner plate, glaze sgraffito of a yucca, 12” diameter x 1.25” high, 2020.