Past Exhibitions

This Spring, we are excited to host our annual "Juried Exhibition," showcasing the art and design work of regional high school students.

Students in the first-year course, Visualization Studio, selected hats from the TMFD Historic Costume Collection to create oversized recreations or replicas using recycled chipboard (cardboard). After initially sketching the hats, students measured their proportions to understand the construction process. They then recreated the hats, scaling them to four to five times their original size and matching the materials. This student exhibition will feature three giant hats displayed alongside the originals, highlighting skill development, material research, and problem-solving.

The Gallery is currently receiving a complete lighting upgrade! Our old lights were installed of 25 years ago and now our new system will feature energy efficient LED lighting!   

Intimately explore how embellishment contributed to 20th century design, fashion, and culture

The gallery will be closed from Friday March 29th to May 9th for rennovations. 

The gallery will reopen Friday, May 10th with our latest exhibition Making an Entrance: Magnifying the Details of 20th Century Dress  - Learn More about the next exhibition

The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design invites high school students to showcase their textile art and fashion designs! Students can submit textile art including apparel design, fiber art, and surface design work. This exhibition seeks to promote and celebrate the creative work of young artists, designers, and makers working with textile or fiber materials or techniques.

UPCYCLED: A Fashion & Textile Exhibition of Remaking and Reinventing celebrates the creative of work of high school aged artists, designers, and makers. Young artists explored the medium of textiles by taking two-dimensional materials and making three-dimensional forms. Textiles offer innate textures, patterns, movement, colors, pattern, and variety which offer artists and designers a unique “canvas” to work with. ​ 

Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design students explore “enlarging the ordinary” through the creation of wearable art made from chipboard. Students used sketching, 3D modeling, and body scans to create these large scale three-dimensional fashion oriented objects.

Join us for a conversation and reception with artist Adria Renee about her work, inspiration, and collection at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on October 11th from 5:30-7:00pm.

Exploring the Intersections of Fashion and Fandom through Star Wars