Work of Mary Smith will be showcased in conjunction with the student show.

Radka Donnell’s quilts break many of the rules that have governed how quilts were designed and made for much of the last two hundred years and longer. They pay little heed to grids or to symmetry. Their colors are riotously and impulsively juxtaposed.

Bias Cut and Beyond: A Collaborative Exhibition of Historic Garments and Student Designs is the Option II Project of Carla Coorts, completed under the supervision of Dr. Barbara Trout. The exhibition, May 6 - May 22, 2003, at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, presents a rare opportunity to showcase historic garments from the UNL Historic Costume Collection along with the student designs they helped to inspire.

Exhibition of quilts from from the Ardis and Robert James Collection of the International Quilt Study Center Collection.

John Garrett of Albuquerque, New Mexico interlaces such unlikely materials as brushed and painted aluminum and hardware cloth in a vessel and makes nets of metal, plastic, and glass. Process is central to this work where the artist explores new and complex weaving processes and experiments with the aging and decomposition of found metals.

Workshop: September 6-7, 2003

Twenty-one 4-Her's from across the state have their textile art on display from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. from October 27 to Novement 14 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery as part of the tenth annual celebration of Youth: A Decade of Excellence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus.