UPCYCLED! A Fashion & Textile Exhibition of Remaking and Reinventing
Friday, February 9, 2024 to Thursday, March 28, 2024
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design invites high school students to showcase their textile art and fashion designs! Students can submit textile art including apparel design, fiber art, and surface design work. This exhibition seeks to promote and celebrate the creative work of young artists, designers, and makers working with textile or fiber materials or techniques.
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Enlarging the Ordinary
Friday, November 17, 2023 to Thursday, February 1, 2024
Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design students explore “enlarging the ordinary” through the creation of wearable art made from chipboard. Students used sketching, 3D modeling, and body scans to create these large scale three-dimensional fashion oriented objects.
A Woman's Place is in the Resistance
Thursday, May 4, 2023 to Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Exploring the Intersections of Fashion and Fandom through Star Wars
Adria Renee Artist Talk & Reception
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Join us for a conversation and reception with artist Adria Renee about her work, inspiration, and collection at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on October 11th from 5:30-7:00pm.
FUTURE TENSE: 2023 Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition
Thursday, February 23, 2023 to Sunday, April 23, 2023
FUTURE TENSE 2023 will celebrate the creative work of student artists, designers, and makers working with or inspired by fiber or textile materials or techniques. FUTURE TENSE 2023 offers a glimpse into the future of contemporary fibers by presenting the very best work being made by students in the field today.
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Textile Talk - Future Tense 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Join us for a virtual walkthrough with Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery director Michael Burton and hear from this year's juror, Natalie Baxter, and exhibition awards winners Esther Elia, Sevaan Perrow, and Emily Keown.
Human Connections
Monday, January 9, 2023 to Friday, February 10, 2023
Human Connections features UNL student work from the Visualization Studio course in the Textiles, Merchandising, Fashion Design Department. Students visualized a physical and metaphorical “human connection” using sketching, 3D modeling, and body scans to create wearable art made from chip board.
Summer/ Fall 2022 Exhibition- Designer Kendra Benson
Monday, August 1, 2022 to Friday, December 16, 2022
TMFD will host alumni and NYC fashion designer Kendra Benson with an exhibition of her latest collections; Padam Padam, Japonica, Nashua and americanodyssey. Benson is a 2005 graduate of the Fashion Design program and has since launched her career with her brand THIS WOMAN'S WORK. We also look forward to a visit from Kendra during the Fall 2022 semester for a gallery talk and TMFD workshop with students in Experimental Design and Draping.
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UNL Merchandising Students Present: Visual Merchandising Vignettes
Monday, May 2, 2022 to Monday, June 6, 2022
Led by Lecturer Jinhee Han Ph.D., TMFD 314 student groups will exhibit fashion merchandise in the Gallery to demonstrate how to effectively apply design principles and elements to please the viewers’ eyes. Each display will show an assigned design concept/theme. This exhibit will demonstrate TMFD merchandising students through May 15th, 2022.
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2022 Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 to Friday, April 22, 2022
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