Past Exhibitions

The gallery is proud to present a survey of fiber art and textiles from across the nation, selected by Professor Emeritus Robert Hillestad. 

Special thanks to Dr. Hillestad and to all the artists who submitted their work! 

First Place-  Kim Dong Kyu, "The United Stitches"

Second Place- Rosemary Meza- DesPlas, "Agency #1"

Third Place- Annette Guy, "German City Church"

The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on East Campus HSB 2^nd floor hosts an exhibition of art and animation by Assistant Professor Michael Burton which is based on a short story by Willa Cather titled A Gold Slipper.  Burton’s Animating History Lab (including CEHS grads, undergrads, and alumni) helped create costumes and film for the exhibition.

Artist Sheila Talblitzer's work explores the hurdles she has encountered in reconciling her diagnosis through the art of quilt-making, embroidery, and photography

In April 2014, 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 think about clouds as water vapor and then water vapor as greenhouse gas.