‎ MELBOURNE, FLA.—The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology announces its first juried exhibition of art quilts, FLORIDA IN FABRIC, Wish You Were Here!, which will feature 15 original quilts created by Florida artists.

  MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology’s Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts announces its 2012 Docent Training Program. The program begins Monday, April 23, at 9:30 a.m. in the Funk Center’s 2nd floor mezzanine; it continues Mondays, 9:30 a.

MELBOURNE, FLA.— Florida Institute of Technology’s Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts will host Natalia Nekrassova of the Textile Museum of Canada (TMC) in the next Friends of Textiles Lecture Series April 10. The lecture is at 6 p.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Humanities and Communication will present CEO of Port Canaveral Stan Payne, the Space Coast Business 2011 Business Leader of the Year, on April 2 at 5:30 p.m. The free lecture, on the United States import/export business, will take place in George M.

MELBOURNE, FA.--Florida Institute of Technology will host Anita Luvera Mayer, contemporary artist and designer, in the next Friends of Textiles Lecture Series March 27. The lecture, “The Creative Journey,” is at 6 p.

  MELBOURNE, FLA.—The deadline is March 16 to submit quilts for the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology’s first juried exhibition of art quilts, FLORIDA IN FABRIC, Wish You Were Here!.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology and the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts present its annual textiles symposium, Uncommon Threads: Exotic Luxuries. As part of the symposium, Marilyn Garrow, antique textiles dealer and owner of Marilyn Garrow Fine Textile Art, London, will present a free lecture, “The Threads of Civilization,” on Thursday, Feb.

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The Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts presents its new exhibition, Traditional Textiles of India Jan. 21-April 28 in its galleries located on the campus of Florida Tech. India’s long and varied history has produced a stunning collection of textile traditions.

MELBOURNE, FLA.—To celebrate the end of the Interwoven exhibit, the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology will host its last Friends of Textiles gallery talk of the fall on Dec. 16 at 6 p.m. Interwoven guest artist Alejandrina Cué will lead visitors on a tour of select works featured in the Center’s gallery, following a reception, which begins at 5:15 p.