Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Group & Research Visit Request Form

Thank you for your interest in visiting! The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is a teaching collection with over 13,000 textile artifacts spanning 16 centuries and 108 countries, making it one of the nation’s largest university-held textile collections. Thousands of pieces from the collection are available for public study, loaned to outside exhibitions, and more than 9,000 objects are viewable online.

To request a visit, please complete the form below. We ask that requests be at least two weeks before your preferred visit date. If a section is not applicable to your visit, please enter “N/A.” Once you have submitted this from, a staff member will be in touch to confirm your visit date and time, and follow up with any additional information.

Please do not copy and paste anything into this form. Due to university firewalls, pasted material will often prohibit form submission.

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Group & Research Visit Request Form

First Name(Required)

Last Name(Required)

Email Address(Required)

Affiliated Institution(Required)

Role or Position (professor, curator, student, etc.)(Required)

For Class Visits (type N/A in all boxes if not applicable)

Course Department(Required)

Course Title(Required)

Course Number(Required)

Current Enrollment(Required)

What is your current enrollment? If unknown, please indicate the maximum enrollment for this course.

Class Schedule(Required)

When does your class meet? (For example, MWF 10:00-10:50)

Class Session Length(Required)

How many minutes long is your class session?

Dates and Times

List three possible dates and times for your session in order of preference.

First Preference Date(Required)

Please enter in mm/dd/yyy format.

First Preference Time(Required)

Please enter start and end time (example 10:00-10:45)

Second Preference Date(Required)

Second Preference Time(Required)

Third Preference Date(Required)

Third Preference Time(Required)

Additional Information

Who do you envision will facilitate this visit? Please check all that could apply.(Required)

I will

Me, in conversation with a collections staff member

Mostly collections staff, but I will chime in

I'm not sure. Can we discuss?

How would you like to choose your artworks? Please check all that apply.(Required)

I will select objects from the online database - a selection form will be provided by collections staff upon confirmation

I'd like to meet or correspond with collection staff to discuss options

I'd like to use my object list from the last time I brought this course to the collection

Goals for your visit

These questions help us to advise you on how to best make use of your time visiting the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection and to suggest objects that might resonate with the issues/themes/questions your course or research explores.

Do you have specific goals for the visit? If so, please specify.

Will you connect your Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection visit to a class assignment? If so, what is the goal of the assignment? (It's okay to have a vague answer at this point!)

How did you hear about us?

Anything else we should know about this visit?

Phone

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