Farzaneh has been actively making things out of clay since 2005 when she first found herself captivated by a potter's wheel at Sharon Art Studio in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, Visual Communication.

One of Farzaneh’s interests is ceramic education; the role of an artist as both practitioner and educator is something she has a big passion for. She is teaching pottery classes at Lycee Francais de San Francisco and she is a potter assistant at Sharon Art Studio.

She says: “Clay with its amazing vigor, vitality and fluidity gives me the freedom to create wonderful textures, colors and forms. My commitment to clay as a medium of expression is unfaltering – I simply love clay, no other material captures my imagination like it does.”

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Something about Susa: It is the name of the oldest settlements in the southwest region of Iran. Pottery from this site is generally painted with geometric patterns and stylized, simplified animals. Prior to the 4th millennium B.C., archaeologists believe that women were primary makers of pottery. With the invention of the tournette, a primitive potter’s wheel, the task of pottery-making was transferred to men, though women still continued to make pottery by hand.