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                          Farraday Newsome

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Biography

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Farraday Newsome grew up in the redwood forest of coastal California. She is the daughter of George Newsome, a painter, potter and dinnerware designer who earned his ceramics degree at New York State University, studying with the late Daniel Rhodes.

Newsome received her BA in Biology (University of California at Santa Cruz, 1976) and her MA in Art with a Ceramics Emphasis (San Francisco State University, 1987). She currently lives in the Sonoran desert of Arizona with ceramic artist and husband Jeff Reich. Together they run Indigo Street Studio in Mesa, Arizona.

Newsome’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 into the shadowy, more emotionally complex realm of night and darkness. 

Newsome is a widely exhibited artist whose work can be seen at Plinth Gallery in Denver, CO, Santa Fe Clay in Santa Fe, NM, and ARC Contemporary Fine Art in Cottonwood, AZ. Her work is included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Wustum Museum of Art, the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts in the Czech Republic, the Ohio Crafts Museum, the Arizona State University Art Museum, and many other public collections. Newsome’s work has been featured in numerous books and magazines.

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