Susan Allred is a mixed media artist who works with fiber to explore the ways it affects and reflects our daily lives.

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 in 2023, Allred created large versions of her Walking Skirts series, which explore the costs women pay for exercising their freedoms. In Fall 2024, her two-person exhibition, Antifunction, ran at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.

In May 2022, How Does Your Armor Grow was awarded First Place at the 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 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.

She lives and works in Tempe, Arizona.