Susan Allred

Susan Allred is a mixed media artist who works primarily with fiber to explore the ways it affects and reflects our daily lives. In May 2022, How Does Your Armor Grow was awared First Place at the 2022 Annual Juried Art Show. In May 2020, Allred’s mixed media piece Invitation to a Tea Party was awarded Best in Show at Mesa Community College’s 2020 Annual Juried Student Art Show. In July 2020, she received a grant from The Carmody Foundation’s Art For Good Arizona Project. In 2019, her fiber sculpture Bound was selected to appear at the Eric Fischl Vanguard Showcase, at the Phoenix Art Museum and in the Eric Fischl Gallery, where it was awarded Second Place in the 3D Media category. Allred was an artist member at Eye Lounge contemporary art space from February 2020 — May 2023 and served as co-president from January 2022 — May 2023. During a three-month residency at the Ceramics Research Center at the ASU Art Musuem, Allred was given the time and space to scale up her work, and she created two large versions of her Walking Skirts series, which explore the costs women must pay for exercising their freedoms. She lives and works in Tempe, Arizona.