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Irina Tevzadze is Georgian-American multidisciplinary artist, designer and fashion educator with a career which spans more than twenty years. She works in different traditional and digital media and her artworks and fashion collections have been exhibited and sold worldwide. Irina holds BFA and MFA degrees from Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, Georgia where early in her career she also taught fashion and art for several years. Irina's artworks are preserved in several embassies and numerous public and private art collections in her home country, United States and internationally. At different times in her career, Irina has worked as a designer for several high-profile European companies and has been an award winner of several prestegeous fashion design competitionsas, as well as served as a jury member for several of such competitions in the United States and abroad. In 2005, Irina co-founded a design, communication and research company sakartvelo.com LLC and for several years she was in charge of creative as whe worked with numerous high-profile clients. In 2009, Irina and her family moved to the United States, where she joined the faculty of the Fashion Program at Stephens College, where she taught art and fashion and served as the school's ambassador to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), leading and supervising the development, production and submission of students' works to competitions for CFDA scholarships and other prestigious opportunities. In August 2019, Irina joined the Fashion Program within Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, which later transformed into ASU FIDM. There, for over six years, irina led the establishment and curriculum development of the entire Fashion Design sequence, while she also taught upper level fashion design courses, advised students, and led creation and production of students' senior fashion collections for ASU FIDM biannual 'Uncertainty' and 'Compassion With Fashion' fashion shows, until she stepped down in 2025. All this time, Irina has always been active in both art and fashion, held several solo exhibitions and fashion shows, and participated in numerous group shows and events, regularly contributing to the cultural life wherever she happened to reside. Since Fall 2004, Irina has been included in Who is Who in Georgian Art catalogue. Irina was a subject of documentary film "Irina", September 1993, Tbilisi, Georgia - 20 minutes |