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IMPORTANT UPDATE! Our galleries are partially closed while we install our next fall show -- Inside the Design Center! In the meantime, enjoy discounted admission prices. Visit us to see Layered Narratives and Fashioning an Icon (closes on Sept 7th).

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Discover global traditions

Tarahumara/Rarámuri Woman's Skirt and Top

20th Century Chihuahua, Mexico

Tarahumara women, also known as Rarámuri, continue to hand-sew dresses in this style to preserve their culture.

Featured Collections

Beads Bracelet (detail), Pier Voulkos, 1995, polymer clay

Beads

Africa Rocks This wooden mask's face is boldly simplified with a high protruding forehead, close-set eyes under hooded eyelids, and is completely covered by a dense network of painted parallel grooves.

Africa Rocks

Mid-Century Marvels This orange, cheerful chair is made from polyeurethane foam and fiberglass–just like the surfboards Ekstrom produces.

Mid-Century Marvels

Form Follows Function? Steven and William Ladd, Detail of Beaded Bag from <em>Water Tower</em>, USA, 2003, archival board, fiber, beads, metal.

Form Follows Function?

Feast This elaborately conceived piece won 2nd prize in a Day of the Dead festival in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, a region famous for its ceramic handicrafts.

Feast

Japan

Japan

Textiles Cigar Silk Dress, 1880s, Unidentified maker, U.S.A, Silk, cotton. Collection Mingei International Museum, Gift of Annie Metzger and Susan Shershow, 2016-266-004A-B. Photo by Katie Gardner.

Textiles

Jewelry This necklace is made of small rectangular jelly jade stones set in silver.

Jewelry

American Quilts Log Cabin Quilt, Civil War Barn Raising, c. 1865, U.S.A., pieced and quilted wool. Collection Mingei International Museum, Gift of Pat L. Nickols; digitization made possible through the Quilter's Guild of Dallas, Quilt Accessibility Project: Photo by Tim Siegert.

American Quilts

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Artful Animals

Artful Animals