The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
by University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Description
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery is devoted to the exhibition of textiles--from art to apparel, from East to West, from past to present, and from emerging artists to the acclaimed. The gallery is dedicated to Dr. Robert Hillestad, an internationally renowned fiber artist and Professor Emeritus of Textiles, Clothing and Design.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | CleanVideoTom Lundberg | Lundberg wryly subverts notions of this genteel pastime of embroidery by composing and painstakingly needling unpredictable, surreal, perverse or mystical dream states that serve as cautionary statements about our relationships with both the natural and the built universes we inhabit. That he manages on such a small scale to embrace many of the paradoxes and mysteries of life is nothing short of breathtaking. | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | CleanVideoWilliam Wilson | The Black Ocean: Europe - Africa - America features appliqued banner narratives documenting the complicated history of the infamous "triangle trade," created by French artist William Wilson | 4/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | CleanVideoSusan Taber Avila | Susan Taber Avila, an artist and associate professor in Design at University of California, Davis has developed a unique use of thread as both a drawing tool and structural element in her work. She has worked with this method over time, using it as a fascinating vehicle for her art making. Taking advantage of a digital textile printer, she has incorporated printed imagery in her work, adding another layer of technology to her intensively hand wrought art. | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoLia Cook | Cook, a weaver from Berkeley, California, uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing, maze-like patterns. As the faces fragment, a perceptual shift occurs, moving through a place of transition and ambiguity to reveal the physical, tactile nature of the constructed image. Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered, and re-woven in oversize scale, to intensify an emotional and/or sensual encounter. | 4/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | CleanVideoPraha Fashion | Two of the Czech Republic’s most prominent fashion designers, Tatiana Kovarikova and Jaroslava Prochaskova will show their high fashion garment lines and discuss their contributions in establishing Prague as an emerging European fashion center. They will provide insight into the formation of the Fashion Alliance of the Czech Republic and discuss the current global context of the fashion industry. | 2/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideoSonya Clark | In the lecture Sonya Clark describes how she developed the idea of sealing the writings inside beaded packets. She says, “Historically, African amulets are made from leather or cloth casings filled with sacred writings and other tokens of power. Closing the amulets makes their contents inaccessible…it is the presence of the word, not the ability to read it that yields their power. The casing acts as a veil elevating the contents to an intangible and metaphysical realm… To one participant in the Beaded Prayers Project, an adult survivor of child abuse, the sense of anonymity was the most meaningful aspect of the project. For others the familiarity of keeping a wish secret like one does when blowing out birthday candles is a familiar device.” | 9/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | CleanVideoRobert Hillestad | A 2-part lecture: Robert Hillestad will speak about the underlying creative process of his work on display in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery; and JoAnn Stabb, textiles scholar, will discuss Hillestad’s work from the perspective of the Art-to-Wear Movement. | 8/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | CleanVideoCarter Smith | In his lecture, The Road to Shibori, Carter Smith will describe how he started tie dyeing in the fall of 1965 when his mother was teaching tie and dye workshops at the newly opened University of California at Santa Cruz. He became fascinated by these processes and has evolved his own personal and unmistakable style. In 1988 his son Noah started working with him. He prepares the fabric in California and ships it to his father for the complex dye process. Noah Smith is a shibori artist in his own right and is invaluable to the work. Noah has also started a winery, Chance Cellars, in Central California. His first vintage will be ready in the Summer of 2010. | 4/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | CleanVideoJane Dunnewold | "Unfurled: Expressive Cloth" Curators Jane Dunnewold and Wendy Weiss welcome this opportunity to feature artists who approach cloth from several perspectives and through a variety of processes and techniques. Some manipulate threads to create their image, while others engage in contemporary adaptations of resist methods used in cultures around the world. The exploration and adaptation of historic ethnic textile manipulation techniques, as well as themes, promise to give the fiber art world work that is fresh in style and rich in context. | 11/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
