Exhibition Schedule

Merchandising competition/installations - To See and Be Seen

Monday, April 9, 2018 to Friday, May 18, 2018

Visual merchandising is as much art as commercial enterprise. Strong design strategies interpreting imaginative themes bring excitement and wonder to fashion retailing. For the first time, TMFD students will team up with several local retailers to plan and execute thematic visual merchandising displays in the Hillestad Textiles gallery.

Jatin Sharma at work, Nathdwara, December 2016.

Pigment on Cloth: Tradition, Family, and the Art of Indian Pichvai Painting

Monday, June 4, 2018 to Friday, August 31, 2018

This special exhibition introduces our audiences to the historic Indian practice of pichvais, devotional paintings on cotton cloth made as temple hangings in Nathdwara, Rajasthan. The exhibition presents work from one contemporary family of Nathdwara pichvais painters, including family patriarch Charturbhuj Sharma, his sons Shyam Sunderji, Mahesh, and Yugalkishor, and Shyam's son Jatin. They represent the fifth, sixth and seventh generations of pichvais painters in their lineage.