[3] She then enrolled in a commercial art school,[3][5] before studying painting at East Sydney Technical College[3][6] and, from 1944, at the studio of the Hungarian immigrant painter and printmaker Desiderius Orban.
[8] In 1963, she attended classes in lithography at the Workshop Arts Centre in Willoughby, in the lower north shore of Sydney.
[1] She was artist-in-residence at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1987,[1][13] and received an Australia-Japan Foundation travel grant to attend the Kyoto Paper Convention in 1983.
[15] Artist and art critic Nancy Borlase wrote later that year, "Using a process of pressing, moulding, casting, couching and laminating, Faerber has produced a series of beautifully evocative, landscape-based, mixed-media works that lift printmaking into the sphere of individual bas reliefs.
"[2] Sasha Grishin wrote that "Faerber's editioned relief prints, made of cast handmade paper, appear as elements from cultural archaeology, like ancient stones which contain, embedded within them, traces of human existence.