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21 ORNAMENT 35.5.2012 museums & galleries THE MUSEUM AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY features Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part Two, through November 10. The Museum at FIT has long been recognized for its innovative and award-winning exhibitions, but less well known is their permanent collection that encompasses more than fifty thousand garments and accessories and thirty thousand textiles dating from the eighteenth century to the present. The Museum has organized two consecutive exhibitions in the Fashion and Textile History Gallery that celebrate the best of the permanent collection. Since its collection is especially strong in designer fashion from the twentieth and twenty- first centuries, it was decided to organize an exhibition that focuses on modern and contemporary fashion and accessories. Seventh Avenue at 27th St., New York, NY 10001; 212.217.4558; www.fitnyc.edu/3662.asp. NORTH CAROLINA THE MINT MUSEUM's Randolph Street location hosts Threads of Identity: Contemporary Maya Textiles, ending December 31. Among the Maya, dress is an outward expression of cultural pride. Dress also conveys one's place in the world, signaling social identity and geographic origin or current community. It also articulates social structure, political affiliation and religious ideology by way of its decoration which comprises a symbol system of visual codes. Today's repertoire of Maya traditional clothing, called traje, developed primarily during the Colonial Period (A.D. 1521-1821) as a forced adoption of European dress. Yet elements of traje reach back more than twenty three hundred years. Today's fashions, as adaptations of imposed, foreign modes to indigenous couture, are testimony to Maya perseverance in spite of hundreds of years of colonization, enslavement and genocide. Maya clothing styles generally are divided along language boundaries. This exhibition features fashions of the Kaqchikel, Ixil, K'iche', Mam, Tz'utujil, Chuj, Awakatek, Jakaltek and Poqomchi' from Guatemala, and Tzotzil and Tzeltal from Chiapas, Mexico. 2730 Randolph Rd., Charlotte, NC 28207; 704.337.2000; www.mintmuseum.org. OHIO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM presents Life, Thoughts & Garments: Linda Öhrn-McDaniel Recent Works, showing at the Higbee gallery, through February 10, 2013. The artist says of her work, "Narrowing my field of options in theme or color expands the need to use craft technique, fit or surface design to solve creative issues within each garment. A primary example of this approach is the circles and hearts that feature prominently in this exhibition." East Main St. and South Lincoln St., Kent, OH 44242; 330.672.3450; www.kent.edu/museum.