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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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March 2019 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.

Indigo Street Studio Calendar

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MWSU Twin Cups 2019

Missouri Western State University

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40th Annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

Mesa, Arizona

February 8, 2019 - April 21, 2019: 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona museum information

February 22 - March 22, 2019: MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups 2019, Potter Fine Arts Gallery, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Missouri https://www.missouriwestern.edu/art/gallery/

March 23 - April 1, 2019: Material Impulse; A Confluence of Clay Artists, NCECA 2019 venue exhibition, host space Corner Store Gallery NE at 501 NE 22nd Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota Curated by Robert Siracusa from his Arizona gallery ARC Contemporary Fine Art NCECA 2019

ARC Contemporary Fine Art Corner Store Gallery

March 25 - May 5, 2019: Mugshot 2 Clay International, Mojo Coffee Gallery, California Building, 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota http://mojocoffeegallery.com

Farraday Newsome, Dark Blue Bowl with Oranges, Birds, and Shells, glazed terra cotta, 8.5”h x 16” x 16”, 2017, in the current 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona.

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 Luiza deCamargo, Associate Curator at the Society of Arts and Crafts. There are fifty-three pieces by fifty selected artists.

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

When: February 8, 2019 - April 21, 2019

For more, click museum information.

Farraday Newsome has this pair of cups in the upcoming nationally juried exhibition MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups 2019 at Western Missouri State University Potter Fine Arts Gallery. https://www.missouriwestern.edu/art/art-gallery/. The show was organized by the MWSU Clay Guild.

MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups 2019 was juried by Veronica Watkins, a studio potter and arts professor at Missouri Western State University. http://www.veronicawatkins.com

Farraday Newsome, Two Cups with Palo Verde Trees, glazed terra cotta, 4.25” h x 3.75”d each, 2018

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Jeff Reich Runs the Mesa-Phoenix Half Marathon

Jeff Reich recently ran the Mesa-Phoenix Half Marathon, which provide scholarship funds for high school students who have participated in running related athletics and are dedicated to the pursuit of higher education.

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NCECA 2019 Exhibit

Material Impulse: A Confluence of Clay Artists

Robert Siracusa, director of Arizona’s ARC Contemporary Fine Art, will be curating the exhibit Material Impulse: A Confluence of Clay Artists in conjunction with the upcoming 2019 conference National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Claytopia, to be held in Minneapolis from March 27 - 30, 2019. NCECA 2019

The show is a survey of contemporary ceramics by Jeff Reich (AZ), Farraday Newsome (AZ), Zach Tate (IN), Novie Trump (AZ), Tom Bartel (OH), Magda Gluszek (AZ), Undine Brod (NY), Ben Roti (AZ), Thaddeus Erdahl (NJ), and Travis Winters (PA), all of whom exhibit at ARC Contemporary Fine Art and nationally.

Mr. Siracusa writes, The timeless art of ceramic sculpture has always been one of deep personal expression. Regardless of whether it is created for necessity or for decorative purposes, the hands of the creator are there, manipulating the material to its end result.

“When I began exhibiting ceramic art in 1997, I was always astonished at the versatility of the material, and moved by the manner with which each artist managed to find something new in every piece and every surface treatment.

The exhibit will be held in Aaron Neumann’s Corner Store Gallery NE, located in the NE Minneapolis Arts District. Mr. Neumann writes, Since the theme of NCECA this year is “Claytopia” which is also driven by a fascination with materials, collaborating with Robert to explore what is going on in the world of clay in the southwest region and beyond was an irresistible opportunity. Corner Store Gallery

Where: Corner Store Gallery NE, 501 NE 22nd Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418

When: March 23 - April 1, 2019. Opening reception (during NCECA) Friday, March 29, 7-9pm

Farraday Newsome with her piece Dark Blue Bowl with Oranges, Birds, and Shells at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.

This is the gallery space in which the show will be held: the Corner Store Gallery NE in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Corner Store Gallery NE Minneapolis Arts District

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Studio Calendar

2. NCECA 2019 Exhibit: Material Impulse; A Confluence of Clay Artists

3. 40th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona

4. NCECA 2019 Exhibit: Mugshot 2 Clay International, Mojo Coffee Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

5. MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups 2019, Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, Missouri

6. Jeff Reich Runs Mesa-Phoenix Half Marathon

7. Indigo Street Studio Landscape Note: The Great Backyard Bird Count

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NCECA 2019 Exhibit:

Mugshot 2 Clay International

The upcoming Mugshot 2 Clay International opens during NCECA 2019 and features mugs from an array of international studios. The show will be held in the Mojo Coffee Gallery, located in the California Building in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Mojo Coffee Gallery is the project of studio artist Marko Fields. It is a gallery and coffeehouse with hundreds of studio-made cups displayed throughout the space. Mr. Fields juried the show and Mata Ortiz master potter Diego Valles will jury the awards during the opening reception. More about Marko Fields and Diego Valles

Where: Mojo Coffee Gallery, 2205 California St. NE, California Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418

When: March 25 - May 5, 2019; opening reception (during NCECA) Friday evening March 29, 7pm

Farraday Newsome, Brambles and Moths, glazed terra cotta, 13.5 x 13.5 x 2.5”, 2016

Farraday Newsome, Moonlight Garden Teapot, glazed terra cotta, 9 x 13 x 9”, 2015

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields series, stoneware, boxy wall tile, 11.5 x 13.5 x 3”, 2018

Jeff Reich, Tres Agaves, stoneware sculpture, 11 x 12.5 x 13”, 2018

These are four the five cups that Farraday Newsome will have in the upcoming Mugshots2 Clay International. They are all glazed terra cotta, each approx. 4-5” tall, 2018.

Jeff Reich, Agave Fields series, stoneware, boxy wall tile, 11.5 x 13.5 x 3”, 2018

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Indigo Street Studio Landscape Note: The Great Backyard Bird Count

Photo: Cooper’s Hawk, from Cornell University’s All About Birds webpage.

This year we participated in Cornell University’s annual Great Backyard Bird Count GBBC), observing from our native landscaped property here in the Sonoran Desert at Indigo Street Studio. It was held February 15 - 18, 2019.

From the Audubon website describing the event:

“Participants are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes (or as long as they wish) on one or more days of the four-day event and report their sightings online at birdcount.org. Anyone can take part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, from beginning bird watchers to experts, you can participate from your backyard or anywhere in the world.

Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share. Last year, more than 160,000 participants submitted their bird observations online, creating the largest instantaneous snapshot of global bird populations ever recorded.”

We observed many of the usual suspects in our yard, including Gambel’s Quails, Anna’s Hummingbirds, Curve Billed Thrashers, and Gila Woodpeckers, an American Kestrel, Verdins, Cactus Wrens, and others, but we were also treated to a Black Vulture (we usually see Turkey Vultures) and a low-flying Cooper’s Hawk. It was fun!