Ana Lisa Hedstrom has been an innovator in Surface Design for over 25 years working with contemporary applications of the Japanese technique called arashi shibori, a resist dyeing process. Her nationally touring exhibition, Process and Pattern: Hand-dyed and Digitally Printed Textiles by Ana Lisa Hedstrom, organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, runs January 28 - March 12, 2004.

Hedstrom has developed a distinctive signature in her textiles, which she describes as a language of stripes. In March of 2003 she was in residence at the International Textile Works, an entity of the Textiles, Clothing and Design Department, where she developed new fabrics based on her hand dyed textiles. The endless limitations of labor intensive hand dying evaporate on the computer. She notes of her work with the new technology "what I love is to push the vocabulary of my fabrics, blowing up the scale, modifying color, layering images, and slicing and rearranging to create virtual piecing.”

Working with the Mimaki textile printer at the International Textile Works she has printed on silk with reactive dyes. The exhibit at the Hillestad gallery will document Hedstrom's investigations. Viewers will be able to recognize the dialog between the computer printing and studio work. Fabrics, clothing, and interior wall pieces will be exhibited. A full color catalog accompanies the exhibition and will be available to purchase at the opening reception with the artist, February 8, 2004. Hedstrom will give a lecture entitled “Rewrapping Shibori” at 2:00 p.m. in room 11 of the Home Economics Building. A reception on the second floor will follow at 3:00 0p.m. A limited collection of the artist’s hand dyed silk scarves will be available for purchase at the reception only.

The annual meeting of the Friends of Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery is February 8, 2004, 1:00 p.m. The public is invited to both the meeting and the lecture/reception, which are free of charge.