From home front efforts during World War II to the statements we make with our COVID masks, the first season of a new podcast from the Center for Design and Material Culture examines a broad range of topics through the prismatic lens of material culture.
Blog
New Event Recording: Bisa Butler Shares Her Moment
Professor Marina Moskowitz highlights moments from the 2021 Harris Lecture featuring textile artist Bisa Butler and shares the CDMC’s latest event recording.
Playing with Vision: Children’s Media Culture before Screen Time
Dr. Sarah Anne Carter reflects on the work of Childhood Studies scholar Dr. Meredith A. Bak and invites everyone to attend Professor Bak’s conversation with Dr. Heather Kirkorian, Faculty Director of SoHE’s Child Development Lab.
Bisa Butler to Give Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture
The interdisciplinary textile artist, whose quilted works feature African-American subjects, will give the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture virtually Thursday, March 18, with the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at UW–Madison.
From Hairbrush to Hairwork: A Workshop with Karen Bachmann
Samantha Comerford, Assistant Collections Manager at the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, researches 19th-century hairwork and attends a workshop to learn hairwork techniques…using her own hair!
Written in Silk: Dr. Marjon Ornstein Preserves Unique Turkish Textile
Through the Adopt-a-Textile program of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Dr. Ornstein has supported a deeper, multi-faceted understanding of a unique, century-plus-year-old silk wall hanging from Turkey.
An Aria in Hats, Lace and Silk
Through hundreds of hours of hands-on volunteering, Sue Engstrom is giving the public, scholars and students something she never really had in her own days as an undergraduate at UW-Madison: Access to one of the most diverse and valuable textile collections in the country.
CDMC Conversation Series with Annette Becker
Art History Ph.D. Candidate, Tania Kolarik, will chat with Annette Becker, Director of the Texas Fashion Collection, about her path to becoming the director, the history of the collection, and how she uses it to teach material culture to students.
Curation Highlight: Rapid Response Mask Collecting Project
Natalie Wright, curator of the Rapid Response Mask Collecting Project, provides insights into the project’s ongoing efforts to capture the varying and vital roles that masks play in daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CDMC Conversation Series with Lois Bielefeld
Photographer Lois Bielefeld will converse with Laura Sims Peck, CDMC Operations Manager, to discuss her work, career, and what her photographs reveal about home life.