13 Facts About Lia Cook

Lia Cook was born on 1942 and is an American fiber artist noted for her work combining weaving with photography, painting, and digital technology.

Lia Cook has been a professor at California College of the Arts since 1976.

Lia Cook was born November 24,1942, in Ventura, California to James Paul Polese and Esther Miriam Homan.

Lia Cook graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 and went on to earn a master's degree in 1973.

Lia Cook went on to receive a MA degree in design from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.

In 1967, Lia marries her first husband David Cook and they travel to Sweden together where she studies weaving from Northern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Lia Cook's work focuses on breaking theories of art, craft, science and technology by combining all aspects in her textiles.

Lia Cook is considered a pioneer in her use of the electronic Jacquard loom, which she uses in her own work and in her teaching.

Lia Cook has completed several fellowships with the National Endowment for the Arts between 1974 and 1992.

In 1976 Lia Cook was commissioned by the Art in Architecture Program Fine Arts Collection US General Service Administration to create "Spatial Ikat III" located at the Frank Hagel Federal Building in Richmond California.

Lia Cook was an artist-in-residence at Pittsburgh University where she worked with TREND to create a body of work that researched Diffusion Spectrum Imaging.

Lia Cook has since been interested with sensory sagacity and discovered that woven imagery activated brain activity most affected by touch.

In 2006, Cook was commissioned by the US General Service Administration to produce "Sons and Daughters" at the Joseph F Weis, Jr.