Opening Reception for Remaking the Renaissance

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
@ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us in celebrating the opening of Remaking the Renaissance. On view starting February 7, Remaking the Renaissance offers a fresh take on this iconic period of textile and fashion history. Demonstrating that remaking is …

Photo of several maroon and yellow textiles layered on top of each other with the words Remaking the Renaissance over them.

Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2024

2235, Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:30 pm

Since 1990, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has proudly sponsored the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture series in honor of Ruth Ketterer Harris, the collection’s first curator. We are thrilled to share Sarah Scaturro, Eric …

Photo of a woman with chin length curly, brown hair and a blue button up shirt smiling at bust length at the camera

Open House for Heart, Head, and Hand

Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Please join us on Saturday, February 17 for an Open House in celebration for Heart, Head, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft. This gathering will include the curators of the exhibition, …

Photo of a colorful broom with broom corn in the background and "Heart, Head, & Hand" in the foreground along the bottom

Broom Making Workshop with Berea College Student Craft

The Link
@ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

After much anticipation, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming Broom Making Workshop with Berea College Student Craft! Join us on February 15 and learn about broom making from Berea College Student Craft staff and …

5 hand made, hand held brooms placed on concrete floor,

Jorella Andrews Lecture co-sponsored with the Center for Visual Cultures

Memorial Library Room 126
@ 3:30 pm

Co-sponsored with the Center for Visual Cultures “Working with resistance towards a non-dual ‘poetry’ – and politics – ‘of truth’” The words “work”, “resistance”, and indeed “truth”, tend to connote difficult terrain. As such, they evoke …

Remaking the Renaissance

Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery
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Looking at key textile innovations in the era c.1400-1700, Remaking the Renaissance suggests that objects and their histories can be restored and recreated through conservation and research.

Photo of several maroon and yellow textiles layered on top of each other with the words Remaking the Renaissance over them.

HLATC Community Day

Center for Design and Material Culture, 1235 Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for the fall semester HLATC Community Day! Once a semester, HLATC staff host a Community Day where we lead behind-the-scene tours and share information about the Collection. This event is open to the …

photo of a detailed close up of a red and multicolored woven textile

Random Weave Workshop with Ann Coddington

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Join us for this engaging workshop where you will explore the process of random woven basketry. We will begin by creating an armature, then complete the form with random weaving using round and flat reed …

Five random weaved baskets hang on a neutral wall.