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Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery

"It's Just a Story" mixed media by Alyssa Dames

Hillestad hosts juried exhibition for high school artists

February 7, 2024

. Students used sketching, 3D modeling, and body scans to create these large scale three-dimensional fashion oriented objects.

'Enlarging the Ordinary' student exhibit displayed at Hillestad Gallery

December 13, 2023

“A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance” is on display through November 3.

Textiles exhibition explores intersections of fashion, fandom

September 13, 2023

A “hanbok,” or Korean robe constructed of receipts. The piece was crafted by Dong Kyu Kim and is one of the exhibits featured in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Juried exhibition on view in Hillestad Gallery

March 4, 2022

A green velvet dress based on Willa Cather's writing is part of the exhibition "A Gold Slipper," on view through Jan. 21 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Willa Cather's 'A Gold Slipper' adapted for exhibition

December 3, 2021

The 2020 Mary Mitchell Design Award-winning garments are included in “A Night on the Runway: Looks from the UNL Student Showcase,” on view through April 3 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. The winning looks are (from left) “Canamortis” by Son Nguyen (first), “Space Stewardess” by Audrey Foster (second) and “Warrior” by Heather Striebel (third).

Hillestad exhibition features student-designed garments

March 11, 2020

These 46-inch by 48-inch panels, part of the “Maggy Rozycki Hiltner: Vantage Point” exhibition, show images of environmental degradation due to farming practices.

Hillestad Gallery to feature Hiltner’s ‘Vantage Point’

September 27, 2019

The textile doll designs of Shelley Thornton will be featured this summer at Nebraska's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

Thornton's textile art dolls featured at Hillestad

May 28, 2019

A group of women poses in front of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln library (now Architecture Hall) circa 1915. “What We Wore: Dressing Well at UNL,” featuring select garments from the 1870s through 1950s, is on view through May 10 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.

‘What We Wore’ features dress across the decades

April 2, 2019

Excerpt of “Post Japan Stones” by Astrid Hilger Bennett, paint and pigment on fabric, 68 inches by 75 inches

Hillestad Gallery to feature Bennett’s ‘Tarp Series’

December 5, 2018

Courtesy Nebraska Today

North Indian classical music part of First Friday

October 29, 2018

Detail of "Ancestors 1" by Jason Pollen

'Ancestors/Descendants' explores world of child's play

February 1, 2018