Professor Harby is the longest serving faculty member in the Digital Arts Department. In 1991, she began her career at Cogswell as the artistic member of the visionary committee who launched the first BA degree program in computer and video imaging by a regionally accredited college. She designed and has taught the Art History, Sketching, Figure Drawing and Painting Courses. Besides her teaching responsibilities, she enjoys advising students, serving on department and college-wide committees and preparing exhibits for the gallery.

Professor Harby also teaches in the community. With artist, Marguerite Fletcher, she has taken working adults to Italy, Greece and England for art study, sketching and painting. She occasionally teaches workshops at PDI/Dreamworks Redwood City that create a fun environment away from the computer to draw and paint.

Harby is active in her career as an artist. She paints and draws both from live and imagination. She received a BFA degree from Boston University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. Teachers Reid Kay, Morton Sacks, James Weeks, Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliviera informed her early art work. Harby has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe and Mexico. She was awarded studio space in a Palo Alto city- sponsored program for 12 years. In 2001, she received a grant to attend an artist residency program at the Vermont Studio Center. In 2007, Harby was granted a two month residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy. She exhibits her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is included in private collections in Japan, Korea, U.S. and Europe.

Her work can be viewed at www.susanharby.com