By the age of seven she was taking ceramics classes with her older sister, Jane.

From 1962 until 1966 she studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, where her instructors included Ralph Bacerra and Otto and Vivika Heino.

She worked for two years in the 1960s at Interpace, returning there from 1989 to 1994, and designed pieces for the Swid Powell company as well.

During the 1994 Northridge earthquake she lost 70 works, valued at $225,000, despite packing them in carpet tubing as a precaution.

[3] Rady died on January 29, 2011, in Culver City, California.