Sanam EmamiSofreh January 26, 2021

Sofreh is the Iranian word for tablecloth, an embroidered piece of cloth that is laid on the table or Persian carpet, and on which dishes of food are placed for a meal. Sofreh can refer to an everyday tablecloth, or a tablecloth for a specific ceremonial setting such as the Nowruz (Iranian New year) called Sofreh-ye haft seen.

Like the Sofreh, Sanam's pots for this exhibition are for the table – for the everyday and the ceremonial.

Biography

Sanam Emami is a ceramic artist and an Associate Professor of Pottery at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She received a BA in History from James Madison University in Virginia, and an MFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Ceramics at Alfred University, resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, and has lectured at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University; the Kansas City Art Institute; Arizona State University Art Museum-Ceramic Research Center, and NCECA in Louisville, Kentucky.