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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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September 2012 Newsletter
Indigo Street Pottery Newsletter
In this Issue
1. Indigo Street Pottery Calendar
2. Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome: August Workshops in St. Albert, Canada
3.Traveling in the Canadian Rockies
4. New Lark Book: The Best Of 500 Ceramics, Celebrating A Decade In Clay
5. Indigo Street Pottery Garden Notes
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!
June 9 -September 29, 2012: Collecting Arizona: Selections from the ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe Arizona http://asuevents.asu.edu/collecting-arizona
July 26 - October 21, 2012: Contemporary Ceramics, Tohono Chul Park Gallery, Tucson, Arizona http://www.tohonochulpark.org/wordpress/
August 2012: Gallery Invitational, Five15 Arts, Phoenix, Arizona http://www.515arts.com/
November 12 - December 21, 2012: Farraday Newsome: Emotional Terrain, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University Art Galleries, Union, New Jersey http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/Welcome.html
November 9 - December 31, 2012: The Artisan Gallery Cup and Mug Invitational; Consider the Cup 2012, The Artisan Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts http://www.theartisangallery.com/
December 1 & 2, and 8 & 9, 2012: Indigo Street Pottery 2012 Annual Holiday Studio Sale, Indigo Street Pottery, Mesa, Arizona https://indigostreetpottery.com/Site/Home.html
October 2013: SOFA Chicago, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
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An elk herd we came across during a walk on our first evening in beautiful Banff, Canada.
After our workshops were over, we hit the road to see the Canadian Rockies. FIrst stop: Banff!
Above left and right: The Banff Centre, an internationally renowned arts facility. The centre offers accommodations and studio space for musicians, visual artists, gallerists, and more. There are galleries, restaurants and even a large indoor swimming pool for residents. From arts-related conferences to solitary residencies, from music huts and artist studios to communal work spaces, this facility has it all. http://www.banffcentre.ca
Below, clockwise from upper left: One of the catenary-arched salt kiln chambers in the ceramics area of the Banff Centre; a larger view of the double-chambered catenary-arched kiln; metal sculpture at Banff Center; patio view from above the Banff Centre kiln area.
Below left: The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, historic and gorgeous. Our portobello mushroom burger lunch included a garnish of a fruited sprig of fresh native gooseberry!
Below right: The turquoise-green Bow River runs through Banff and below the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.
Below: Here we are in front of lovely Lake Louise. We were spellbound by the milky, light blue-green water of so many of the glacier-fed lakes and rivers in the high Rockies. So beautiful!
We learned that the color and milkiness is due to rock flour (or glacial flour), which consists of fine-grained particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspended in river water making the water appear cloudy, which is sometimes known as glacial milk. When the sediments enter a river, it turns the river's color gray, light brown, iridescent blue-green, or milky white. If the river flows into a glacial lake (like Lake Louise, photo below) the lake may appear a milky turquoise in as a result.
New Lark Book:
The Best Of 500 Ceramics, Celebrating A Decade In Clay
Jeff and Farraday are thrilled and honored to be both invited jurors and contributors in this newest of the Lark 500 Books series: The Best of 500 Ceramics, Celebrating a A Decade in Clay. It has just been released and is hardcover. The book is full of gorgeous photographs of studio ceramics and commentary throughout by the various jurors.
Jeff Reich and Farraday Newsome recently conducted a two day hands-on workshop for the St. Albert Potter’s Guild of Alberta, Canada.
Photos below, clockwise from upper left: Jeff constructing one of his sculptures, delighting onlooking workshop participants; Jeff adding the third section of his sculpture; workshop participants building sculptures; Farraday (lower left in photo) teaching techniques of her version of maiolica, which uses glazes on the white maiolica glaze rather than washes.
It is the annual monsoon season, which is the hot, humid, rainy season here in the Sonoran Desert.
While we were gone the garden was on a drip watering timer, so with that and some additional rain the cucumbers went wild! The dark green striped ones are Striped Serpent Cucumbers and the light green ones are Armenian Cucumbers.
There was also a heavy load of eggplants (which we roasted on the gas stove top and froze to make future batches of babaganoush) and red, ripe jalapenos that are now picked and smoked to make chipotles (we used mesquite chips in the smoker).