Exploring visual thinking and creativity

The department of textiles, clothing and design is located in the Home Economics building on UN_L's east campus.  This facility contains fully equipped design and apparel studios, digital studios, a Mimaki TX1600-S textile printer, surface design and weaving studios, the Robert Hillestad Textile Gallery, and the International Quilt Study Center.  

A 30,000square feet state-of-the-art building designed by Robert A. M. Stern Associates of New York will soon be built to house the International Quilt Study Center and its collections, further expanding the available facilities at students' disposal.

Designers and artists with national and international reputations in the textile and apparel fields are frequent subjects of invitational exhibitions in the gallery and regularly conduct workshops or present lectures for students.