Summer at Florida Tech is here. This should mean more time with friends and family, perhaps a change of scenery, and for some, continued work or teaching, but in a new environment. Some will be in exotic locales, like Mark Bush who will conduct research in the wilds of Brazil.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts is pleased to host Studio Art Quilt Associates’ (SAQA) newest fiber art show: Masters 2. The traveling exhibit will be on view at the Funk Center, May 18-Aug. 24.The artworks featured in Masters 2 encompass a broad range of fiber art techniques and styles, from realistic to abstract.

Florida Tech will host Yuka Yoneda, writer, editor and recycled fashion enthusiast, in the next Friends of Textiles Lecture Series presentation April 9. The lecture, “Is Eco-Fashion an Oxymoron?” is at 6 p.m. in the Denius Student Center’s Hartley Room; a reception starts at 5:15 p.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology’s Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts announces its 2013 Docent Training Program. The program begins Monday, April 22, at 9:30 a.m. in the Funk Center’s second-floor mezzanine; it continues Mondays, 9:30 a.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology will host Yuka Yoneda, writer, editor and recycled fashion enthusiast, in the next Friends of Textiles Lecture Series presentation April 9. The lecture, “Is Eco-Fashion an Oxymoron?” is at 6 p.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology will host Nancy Judd, artist and environmental educator, in the next Friends of Textiles Lecture Series March 12. The 6 p.m. lecture, “ReDress: Upcycled Style,” is in the Denius Student Center’s Hartley Room on campus; a reception starts at 5:15.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology and the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts present the annual textiles symposium, Uncommon Threads: Mad Fashion, Feb. 7-8.As part of the symposium, Lauren D. Whitley, curator in the David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will present a free lecture, “Hippie Chic,” on Thursday, Feb.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology announces its spring 2013 exhibit ReDress: Upcycled Style by Nancy Judd.  The traveling exhibit will be on view at the Funk Center, Jan. 19–April 27.

Superstorm Sandy has left misery in its wake across the Northeast. Florida Tech is stepping up to lend a hand. “Civic engagement is fundamental to the philosophy of Florida Tech,” said President and Chief Executive Officer Anthony J.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology will host Japanese textile scholar Ann Marie Moeller as part of the Friends of Textiles Lecture Series Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Denius Student Center’s Hartley Room on campus. The lecture will be preceded by a reception at 5:15 p.