Staff Contact Information


Professor Myra Walker
Director
(940) 565-2732 – Tel
(940) 565-4717 – Fax
tfc@unt.edu

Professor Myra Walker has been a curator at the Texas Fashion Collection at UNT since 1987, where she also teaches courses in fashion history. Walker was the guest curator at the Meadows Museum at SMU for an exhibition entitled Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection in 2007. Walker also wrote an exhibition catalog of the same title published in November 2006 by Yale University Press, UK. In fall 2006, Walker established Fashion on Main at 1901 Main in the Universities Center at Dallas. Walker is a member of the Costume Society of America and the American Association of Museums.

 

 
Dawn Figueroa
Assistant Curator
Dawn.Figueroa@unt.edu

Dawn joined the staff at the Texas Fashion Collection in November 2008. She relocated to Texas from Hamilton, New York where she worked as museum assistant for the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. She has had a long time love of fashion and is thrilled to be bringing her art and museum background to the Texas Fashion Collection.

 

 

 

Edward Hoyenski
Collection Manager
Edward.Hoyenski@unt.edu
Edward joined the staff of the Texas Fashion Collection in January 2011, on loan from the UNT Libraries’ Special Collections Division.  As TFC Collection Manager, he is coordinating the TFC’s Digital Library project as well as working on the catalog and inventory. He has been a volunteer at the TFC for over 18 years, and has his MS in Library Science and his BFA in Art History.
 
Blake Hampton
Photographer, Webmaster, Designer
blakehampton@my.unt.edu
Blake began volunteering at the Texas Fashion Collection in the summer of 2012 before joining the staff part-time for the Fall semester. He photographs garments for the database and record shots as well as making photographs for the various exhibitions we put on and sponsor. His skills are also utilized to run our web presence and create print materials to promote exhibitions and events. Blake is currently working toward his BFA in Photography.