Past Exhibitions
View information about the exhibitions within the last five years below.
April 2022 – April 2023: Luis Estévez: Fashion, Elegance, and Exoticization
April 2022 – April 2023: Trans YouTubers and DIY Undergarments: Influencers, Identity, and Community Building
December 2022 – April 2023: Women at Work! Fashion, Ambition, and Utility
May 2022 – November 2022: Sensory Overload
May 2022 – November 2022: Resurgence: The Fashion Show
April 2022 – November 2022: Fashion and Womanhood
April 2022 – May 2022: Fashion, Resistance, and Black Liberation: 1970s and Today
April 2022 – May 2022: Fashion and Dandyism
January 2022 – April 2022: 1960s Revolution
January 2022 – April 2022: Denim: Dress and the Evolution of American Identities
October 1, 2021 – March 2022: Fashion Forward: Centering Justice in Fashion History
October 1, 2021 – March 2022: Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus, Queer Spaces, Collectives Styles, and Activist Dress, 1984 to the Present
February 3 – April 17, 2020: Collegiate Fashion and Activism: Black Women’s Styles on the College Campus
September 19 – November 22, 2019: By Design: Process – Production – Profession
May 1 – June 28, 2019: Winners of The Fashion Show 2019
October 26, 2018 – April 23, 2019: Designed for a Modern Life: Decorative Arts and Fashion in the Mid-century
August 20 – October 12, 2018: What’s New? Recent Acquisitions to the Textiles and Clothing Museum Collection
April 25 – July 27, 2018: Winning Designs from the Fashion Show 2018
February 1 – April 14, 2018: Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland
September 11 – November 10, 2017: Talking Textiles: Communicating Through Cloth
To view exhibitions that are older than five years, visit the exhibition archive.
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Textiles and Clothing Museum
Morrill Hall
603 Morrill Road
Ames Iowa 50011-2100
Mailing address
31 MacKay Hall
2302 Osborn Drive
Ames Iowa 50011-107
Kelly L. Reddy-Best
klrb@iastate.edu
Please check the Visiting/Engaging with the Museum page for hours and the Galleries page for dates when the exhibitions are open for viewing.