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Selected Past Exhibitions

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.

Read more about: UNL Merchandising Students Present: Visual Merchandising Vignettes

 

 

2022 Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 to Friday, April 22, 2022

Read more about: 2022 Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition

 

 

Shiela Talbitzer: Lidwina Years 1-4

Thursday, July 1, 2021 to Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Read more about: Shiela Talbitzer: Lidwina Years 1-4

 

 

Small Expressions

Monday, October 5, 2020 to Friday, December 18, 2020

Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. presents: Small Expressions, an annual juried exhibit to showcase contemporary small-scale works created using fiber techniques in a variety of media no larger than 15 inches. This traveling exhibition makes a stop at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery for the Fall 2020 semester and is juried by contemporary tapestry artist Jon Eric Riis.

Read more about: Small Expressions

 

 

Visual Merchandising Techniques Modeled by Industry Professionals

The Silent Seller: Students' Foci on Visual Merchandising and the Consumer Experience

Monday, August 24, 2020 to Friday, September 18, 2020

! Due to ongoing concerns about the spread of COVID-19, visitors to the gallery over two years of age are required to use a facial covering at all times when indoors on the UNL campus.

Read more about: The Silent Seller: Students' Foci on Visual Merchandising and the Consumer Experience

 

 

Son Nguyen’s garment titled Canamortis received the first place Mary Mitchell Award at the UNL Student Showcase at Omaha Fashion Week. Son’s design process explored pleating as a way to create volume and was completed in Apparel Design by Draping.

Omaha Fashion Week Student Showcase

Monday, March 9, 2020 to Friday, April 3, 2020

 

! Due to ongoing concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the Gallery is closed until further notice.

A Night on the Runway:  Looks from the UNL Student Showcase
March 9-April 3

Read more about: Omaha Fashion Week Student Showcase

 

 

Installation view:  Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas.  2016.

Maggy Rozycki Hiltner: Vantage Point

Monday, October 7, 2019 to Friday, February 14, 2020

In April 2014, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner was selected to create an installation for the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room. As an embroidery artist, filling 72 linear feet of wall space with hand-stitched imagery would be her largest project to date. She began by designing an idealized landscape with a big blue sky, green grass, and puffy white clouds. Researching ways of depicting cloud forms led her to thinking about clouds as water vapor and then water vapor as greenhouse gas. And other clouds— volcanic plumes, mushroom clouds, emissions from factories and puffs rising from the cooling towers of nuclear reactors—drew her attention as well. The resulting piece, Vantage Point, traveled from Mesa to other venues, changing shape to fit each one. In 2018, Hiltner stitched an additional 39 linear feet to make the piece site-specific for the Holter Art Museum in Helena, Montana.

Read more about: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner: Vantage Point

 

 

Shelley Thornton.  Image credit:  Barbra Porter.

Shelley Thornton: Textile Art Dolls

Monday, June 3, 2019 to Friday, September 13, 2019

Closed Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2019. The work of Lincoln, Nebraska native and lifelong artist Shelley Thornton is currently on exhibit in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, through September 6, 2019. A printmaking and graphic design graduate of what is now the Hixon-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at UNL, Thornton turned to the medium of textiles in the early 1990s, and since that time has established herself as one of the leading dollmakers working in the US.

Read more about: Shelley Thornton: Textile Art Dolls

 

 

Image: Courtesy of UNL Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Taken in fron of what is now Architecture Hall, ca. 1900. Color inset photo by TMFD student Alison Cloet.

What We Wore: Dressing Well at UNL

Monday, March 25, 2019 to Friday, May 10, 2019

On February 15, 1869 the University of Nebraska was officially chartered as a part of the Morrill Act. The Morrill Land-Grant Act provided 30,000 acres of federal lands to the newly admitted state of Nebraska (1867) to create a university that would provide a “liberal and practical education” to its citizens, including women. From Alice Frost, the first woman graduate, to Louise Pound and her support of athletics for women, to Grace Margaret Morton and her widely used textbook The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance, women, both faculty and students, have played an important role in the history of the university.

Read more about: What We Wore: Dressing Well at UNL

 

 

Image: Post Japan Stones. Paint and pigment on fabric, 68" x 75".

Astrid Bennett: The Tarp Series

Monday, December 17, 2018 to Friday, February 15, 2019

The University of Nebraska’s Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery features the exhibition Astrid Hilger Bennett: The Tarp Series, December 17, 2018 – February 1, 2019. Over decades, Bennett’s work has focused on painted, printed and dyed textiles in the form of wall pieces and functional items. In her current body of work, she also includes drawing and mixed media, creating large tarps and small scrolls.

Read more about: Astrid Bennett: The Tarp Series

 

 

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