Faculty | Susan Taber Avila
Susan Taber Avila
www.suta.com
office: Walker 210
phone: (530) 754-7174
email: stavila
Associate Professor. B.A. Design, UCLA; Diploma in Textile Art, Goldsmiths' College, University of London; M.F.A. Textile Arts & Costume Design, UC Davis. Courses taught: fashion design, costume history, textile technology. Artist and Designer.
Susan Taber Avila exhibits widely both nationally and internationally creating pieces to investigate issues of containment. The work examines how clothes or skin contain the body, how language contains thought, how environment or packaging contains identity. Her artwork has been published in American Craft, Artweek, Art Business News, Fiberarts , Surface Design Journal and was included in Fiberarts Design Book Six and Fiberarts Design Book Seven . She is also co-creator of FiberScene.com, a website for promoting fine art with a textile sensibility.