Cecilia de Tavira
Cecilia de Tavira has a degree in art history and specializations in art and education from Universidad Iberoamericana. She has taught art history at universities and higher education institutions and collaborated on multiple museum projects. Currently, she splits her time between promoting projects aimed at helping vulnerable social groups and working in her studio-workshop, where she practices various plastic art and textile techniques.
Embroidery has become one of her greatest passions—one that she not only explores as a way of artistic expression but also as a transformative experience. Her research has focused on how this practice impacts human beings, especially children, from the hand-to-mind--to-hand connection to its origins and cultural meanings. Her knowledge also encompasses the development of motor skills and the impact it leaves on those who practice it because of the aesthetic and emotional experience it induces.
She contributed to and participated in the conception of the book ¿Dónde está arte? Her editorial output also includes the development of museographic and content proposals for interactive museums focused on children, applying her aesthetic vision and perspective to learning through art in connection with nature.
Puntadas al vuelo is her first book as a textile artist. In it, she accompanies her readers on the discovery of their creative abilities through embroidery, guiding them through visual narratives that are stitched together with the movement of needle and thread on paper.
