The purpose of the WIP Lab is not to make a particular thing or to learn a specific technique; but rather, make things together…
Gallery Exhibition
Making the Future with Berea College Student Craft
A blog post on the current exhibition Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft examines some of the lessons we may learn from craft and design as we cultivate a more equitable and flourishing world.
Weaving the past into the present
A recent inventory of 13,000+ artifacts inspired a fresh look at the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Written by Nicole Etter If the story of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection (HLATC) was told through …
Imagining the Healing Process through Manual Practices: The Arpillera Experience in Peruvian Communities
Can collective healing processes be manifested through creative activities? If so, how might we envision this taking place? The meticulous curation of the Social Threads exhibition challenges viewers to reconsider how communities have organized visual …
Layers of History Woven into Lace
With their unassuming appearance, these two bobbin lace pieces may at first seem like mere objects of craft, evocative of a time when lace adorned everything from haute couture fashion to the furniture of our …
Weaving Between the Lines: Authenticity, Identity, and Place(s) of Origin
Amongst objects in the Social Thread exhibition such as embroidered Hungarian shawls, Hmong story cloths, and Polish lace runners, the Filipino tapis is an object with a deceptively heavy history. When I saw it in …
Student Spotlight: Experiencing “Questioning Things” by Sarah Egan
Experiencing “Questioning Things” on my first day back as a gallery assistant in the Center for Design and Material Culture was daunting. Having been gone for the summer, the exhibit was a surprise to me, …
Exhibition Spotlight: Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection
PhD student in Design History, Maeve M. Hogan, discusses the curatorial vision for Lace in the Helen Louise Textile Collection, on view in the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, September 8 through November 17, 2021.
The “Politics at Home” Exhibit: An Origin Story
Sneak peek from co-curator Marina Moskowitz of the fall 2021 exhibit “Politics at Home: Textiles as American Politics” in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery.
2021 Design Studies Second Year MFA Exhibition
Online Launch: May 8, 2021. In the culmination of two years of work, Design Studies MFA candidates Henry Obeng and Nora Renick Rinehart present their work in two digital exhibitions representing recent installations in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery.