Traveling Exhibitions

The Little Black Dress at 100

Celebrate a century of style, power, and reinvention. From Coco Chanel to today’s designers, the LBD remains timeless, versatile, and bold—a canvas of elegance, rebellion, and identity. Explore symbolic garments that continue to inspire, empower, and captivate across generations.

Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design

The traveling exhibition Nature’s Blueprints: Biomimicry in Art and Design brings together art and design with environmental science using both scientific and artistic objects, as well as interactive learning stations. The exhibition is an adaptation of the High Desert Museum’s Innovation Lab: Design Inspired by Nature.

Thrift Style

Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates how the “upcycling” of these bags mutually benefitted twentieth-century consumers and businesses. With forty-one works from patterns to garments, it serves as an example of past ingenuity that can inform today’s efforts towards sustainability.