EDUCATION
MA, Art, Ceramics Emphasis, San Francisco State University, 1987
BA, Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1977

FARRADAY NEWSOME (formerly Sredl) grew up in the redwood forest of California. She is the daughter of George Newsome, a painter, potter and dinnerware designer who earned his degree in ceramics at Alfred State University, studying under Daniel Rhodes. Farraday studied biology as an undergraduate (BA, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1976) and later earned her graduate degree in art, ceramics emphasis, from San Francisco State University (1987).

She currently lives in the Sonoran desert of Arizona with fellow potter Jeff Reich. Together they run Indigo Street Pottery in Mesa, Arizona. Both also teach pottery at the Mesa Arts Center.

Farraday's subject matter is drawn primarily from nature and the emotional allusions and metaphors found in nature. Her color work celebrates the light and exuberance of day, while her black-and-white work delves int the shadowy, more emotionally complex realm of night and darkness.

Farraday is a widely exhibited artist whose work can also be seen in such galleries as Gallery Materia (Scottsdale, Arizona), Virginia Breier Gallery (San Francisco, California), and Katie Gingrass Gallery (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Her work is included in many collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Wustum Museum of Art in Racine, Wisconsin, the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts in the Czech Republic, the Ohio Crafts Museum, and the Nelson Fine Arts Museum at Arizona State University in the collection of the Ceramics Research Center. Her work can be seen in a number of books and has been featured in many magazines over the years.