Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker with Vogue magazine editor-at-large Hamish Bowles (right) and TFC collection manager Edward Hoyenski examining Chanel garments in a TFC workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of TFC collection manager and UNT librarian showing a TFC garment featuring plaid textiles during a research appointment lead by UNT College of Visual Arts and Design fibers lecturer Lesli Robertson which focused on weaving techniques in the Texas Fashion Collection. This image was taken in the workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker standing with TFC donor Ina Rose Bogen and examining garments in a TFC workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker standing next to TFC donor Ina Rose Bogen and TFC collection manager Edward Hoyenski in a TFC workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection staff celebrating Mardi Gras around a dress by Arnold Scaasi, including TFC graduate area assistant and UNT College of Visual Arts and Design art history graduate student Annette Becker, TFC collection manager and UNT librarian Edward Hoyenski, and TFC director and UNT CVAD fashion design professor Myra Walker, shown in a TFC workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Document written by UNT College of Visual Arts and Design Texas Fashion Collection director Myra Walker as part of a university award recognizing outstanding staff members. The essay, titled "Edward the Great," outlines the ways that UNT Special Collections librarian and TFC collection manager Edward Hoyenski supported and advanced the TFC from 2011 through when this letter was written in the spring of 2014.

Photograph of UNT Librarian and Texas Fashion Collection collection manager Edward Hoyenski standing next to UNT MFA fashion design alumnus and exhibition lender Remy Odukomaiya (with her husband and children) and UNT TFC graduate assistant and fashion graduate student Ashley.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection collection manager and UNT librarian Edward Hoyenski leading a group of visitors from Fossil on a tour of TFC storage in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection collection manager and UNT librarian Edward Hoyenski leading a group of visitors from Fossil on a tour of TFC storage in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection collection manager and UNT librarian Edward Hoyenski leading a group of visitors from Fossil on a tour of TFC storage in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection collection manager and UNT Librarian Edward Hoyenski showing a western-style suit to a group of students in TFC collection storage in Welch Street Complex 1.

Photograph of a group of people from the Robson Ranch retirement community during an educational program lead by Texas Fashion Collection collection manager and UNT Librarian Edward Hoyenski Texas Fashion Collection storage in Welch Street Complex 1.

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Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection staff. In the background is TFC collection manager and UNT Librarian Edward Hoyenski, former TFC graduate area assistant and Art History MA alum (2015) Annette Becker, and TFC collections assistant and UNT library science alum Janelle McCabe. The trio are standing alongside a Cristobal Balenciaga cocktail dress in a workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

Weekly student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.

This a/r/tographic dissertation offers opportunities to interrogate curator identity and curator ways of being in both public and private spaces. Instead of an authoritative or prescriptive look at the curatorial, this dissertation as catalogue allows for uncertainty, for messiness, for vulnerable spaces where readers are invited into an exhibition of disorderly living. Stitched throughout the study are stories of mothering and the difficulties that accompanied the extremely early birth of my daughter. Becoming a mother provoked my curating in unexpected ways and allowed me to reconsider the reasons I collect, display, and perform as a curator. It was through the actual curating of familial material artifacts in the exhibition Dress Stories, I was able to map the journey of my curatorial turns. My engagement with clothing in the inquiry was informed by the work of Sandra Weber and Claudia Mitchell, where dress as a methodology allows for spaces to consider autobiography, identity, and practice. It was not until the exhibition was over, I was able to discover new ways to thread caring, collecting, and cataloging ourselves as curators, artists, researchers, teachers, and mothers. It prompts curators and teachers to consider possibilities for failure, releasing excess, and uncaring as a way …

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of Donald Thomas & Edward Hoyenski (yellow) posing together for their picture with English Poetry of the First World War. This was part of Thomas' dropping of new donations for the War Poetry Collection.

Photograph of UNT graduate students in a collection management course taught by Edward Hoyenski following a tour and cataloguing exercise at the Texas Fashion Collection in a space in Welch Street Complex 1.