Graduate students participating in the Textiles, Clothing & Design seminar Design Perspectives and Issues examined approriation in the visual arts, the interface between textile traditions such as quiltmaking and other art and craft media, and the dialogue between past and present that informs the work of creative artists and designers. Working with a seletion of historical and contemporary quilts from the collection of the International Quilt Study Center, including quilts by Faith Ringgold and Yvonne Wells, they then fashioned responses to these works, and the pairings in this exhibition represent the fruit of these dialogues.

February 8, 2004

1:00 p.m. Annual meeting of the Friends of the RHTG

2:00 p.m. Lecture by the artist: Rewrapping Shibori, Room 11 Home Economics Building

3:00 p.m. Reception, Second Floor, Home Economics Building

Workshop "Resist Scouring Silk", Friday February 6 and Saturday, February 7.

Process and Pattern: The Hand-Dyed and Digitally Printed Fabrics by Ana Lisa Hedstrom catalog order form.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty member, Elizabeth Ingraham, is the featured artists March 24 through April 14 at UNL's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. In her exhbition titled "Information, Memory and Desire: Skins by Liz Ingraham," the artist creates life-size figures from a wide range of materials, including velvet, black neoprene, wool crepe and gold mesh fabric, which are then embellished with vintage silver buttons, hooks and yes, small gold bells and elaborate embroidery.

Sunday, April 18, 2004, 1:00 p.m. Lecture: Montage, Fiber Art, and the Works of Cynthia Schira, Glen R. Brown, Professor of Art History, Kansas State University, Room 11 Home Economics Building

Catalog order form.

Between September 15 and 19, 2004, Oakland, CA-based quilt artist Ellen Oppenheimer will visit the University of Nebraska – Lincoln campus in conjunction with the exhibition “Complex Pattern: The Quilts of Ellen Oppenheimer” in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. The exhibition and the artist’s presentations, made possible in part by the Dept. of Textiles, Clothing and Design , the UNL Research Council and Convocations Committee, and the Lincoln Arts Council, will spotlight both her colorful and expressive studio work as well as her long history as an artist-in-residence in numerous California public schools and community arts centers.

The textile art of twenty-one 4-H'ers from across the state is on display from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. from October 18th to November 12th at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery as part of the eleventh annual Celebration of Youth: Expressions. The opening reception is October 24, 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the gallery. The gallery is located on the second floor of the Home Economics Building on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus.

Youth will discuss their work at an opening reception. The 4-H’ers will be on campus October 23rd for an afternoon of workshops and experiments with the faculty in the textiles, clothing and design department in the College of Education and Human Sciences.

Jennifer Angus, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will travel to Lincoln, NE the 3rd week of November to install her newest installation called Carpet Beetles: Patterns from the Orient. Departing from her work of the past four years, in which she has been creating installations composed of insects pinned directly to a wall in repeating patterns, Angus will create an installation at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, Nov. 19-Dec. 17, 2004, on large, low, floor pedestals. Angus uses real insects to reference pattern, both from textiles and wallpaper. In this case, her reference will be patterns from Oriental Carpets.