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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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May 2015 Newsletter

Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter

In this Issue

1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar


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


3.  Jeff Reich Large Commission in Progress


4.  Farraday Newsome will Teach a Week-Long Workshop at Santa Fe Clay, New Mexico


5. Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden


6.  Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscape

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

Farraday Newsome will Teach a Week-long Workshop at Santa Fe Clay Summer 2015

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Farraday Newsome, Embracing Night, glazed terra cotta, 18 x 16 x 8.25”, 2015

Indigo Street Pottery Kitchen Garden

April 17 - May 30, 2015: Summer Preview Exhibition, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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


June 19 - September 19, 2015: Birds of a Feather, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona

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


July 20 - 24, 2015: Farraday Newsome, Artist Workshop, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Clay, New Mexico  www.santafeclay.com


November 7, 2015: Tour de Bird, a Backyard Bird Habitat event sponsored by the Desert Rivers Audubon Chapter of the National Audubon Society, Indigo Street Pottery’s native landscaped yard will be a site


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

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


May 24 - August 27, 2016: Jeff Reich solo show, Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, Arizona

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

Farraday Newsome will have a solo exhibition Unseen Drift at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York, May 16th through July 4th, 2015.

http://www.clayartcenter.org/Farraday_Newsome_Unseen_Drift_s/526.htm


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.










Farraday Newsome

Florabundance!

July 20 – 24, 2015 

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.

 

 

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.  Her work will also be showcased in the Santa Fe Clay Gallery during that week.


Santa Fe Clay is a renowned ceramics-dedicated enterprise that houses studio space, gallery space and a ceramic supply store.

http://www.santafeclay.com

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Jeff Reich Large Commission In Progress

Jeff Reich is working on a large sculpture commission that will be installed in Carefree, Arizona. The piece consists of three stacking sections that will be stabilized by an internal rod and bolt system during installation.

This is the middle section of the sculpture by itself. Jeff has used a pencil to lay out his glaze painting composition. The pencil marks will burn out in the firing.

These are the middle and top sections of the sculpture bisqued and stacked. The middle section will fit into snugly into the top of the bottom section.

Here is the middle section glazed, loaded into the gas kiln, and ready to be fired to cone 10, approximately 2380 degrees F.

Left: The middle section has been unloaded from the kiln and it fired perfectly!

Right: Now it’s time for Jeff to glaze the bottom and top sections. In preparation for this, he made an “old-school” cut-and-paste mock-up with trimmed paper photos of all three sections, taping them together vertically on the studio wall to help “see” the overall piece and plan the glazing composition.

Farraday Newsome, Unseen Drift Through Immutable Clay, glazed terra cotta, 13 x 8 x 8”, 2015

Farraday Newsome, Luminous Night Jar, glazed terra cotta, 22 x 14 x 14”, 2015

Farraday Newsome, Relentless Tide Cloud Tile, glazed terra cotta, 13 x 13.5 x 4”, 2008

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Left: White Teapot with Oranges and Birds, glazed terra cotta, 9 x 13.5 x 9”, 2015

Right: Black Teapot with Moon and Snake, glazed terra cotta, 9 x 13 x 9”, 2015

Farraday Newsome, Seasons of Gain and Loss, triptych of lidded boxes, glazed terra cotta, 2015.

Left: Extravagant Day, 18 x 12 x12”

Middle: Persephone’s Year of Gain and Loss, 16 x 12 x 12”

Right: Murmurous Night, 18 x 13 x 12”

This is the bottom section of the sculpture. After drawing on it with pencil to lay out the composition, Jeff applied an area of black glaze. He then painted over the black glaze with wax to protect the raw glaze during further glaze applications.

Farraday Newsome (glaze) and Jeff Reich (wet clay work), Queen of the Night, glazed terra cotta bowl, 3.5 x 11.5 x 11.5”, 2007

Farraday Newsome, Deer Moon Bowl, glazed terra cotta, 10 x 25 x 12.5”, 2015.

This is one of twenty-seven pieces going to the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York for Farraday’s upcoming solo show opening May 16, 2015.

Our loquats are ripe! When we have guests describe the flavor, the responses vary from apricot-like, to kiwi-ish, to green apple mixed with strawberry, and invariably as delicious. The loquats are the first tree fruits to ripen in our garden each year, a time when the apricots, plums, peaches, etc. are still green. The birds are keen on them too. Since the tree is outside our enclosed vegetable garden, we put a paper bag fastened with a clothes pin around each ripening fruit clump and that has helped alot!

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Indigo Street Pottery Native Landscape

Photo above: It is definitely spring in the desert! Our Palo Verde trees are laden with yellow flowers and the yucca has sent up a splendid flower stalk. The native bees love these food sources and we love the lush, exuberant look!