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Refrangible Episode One: “Home Front” Efforts Between WWII and COVID-19 Crises

Posted on April 7, 2021

The new podcast from the Center for Design and Material Culture begins with a focus on WWII-era food planning booklets to examine how people behave, act, and contribute in response to top-down guidance during times of struggle and strife.

Posted in BlogTagged Material Culture, Podcast, Recent News, Refrangible

Student Spotlight: Noah Mapes, 2020 Chipstone-CDMC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

Posted on April 5, 2021

Art History and Material Culture student Noah Mapes talks about his experiences during last year’s fellowship, student researcher communities during a pandemic, and his contributions to the project “A Colonial Merchant: The Ledger of William Ramsay.”

Posted in BlogTagged Material Culture, Recent News, Student Research

CDMC Launches New Podcast, “Refrangible,” Exploring the Stories Behind Everyday Objects

Posted on March 30, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged Material Culture, Podcast, Recent News, Refrangible

New Event Recording: Bisa Butler Shares Her Moment

Posted on March 25, 2021

Professor Marina Moskowitz highlights moments from the 2021 Harris Lecture featuring textile artist Bisa Butler and shares the CDMC’s latest event recording.

Posted in BlogTagged Event Highlight, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Textiles

Playing with Vision: Children’s Media Culture before Screen Time

Posted on March 10, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged Event Highlight, Material Culture

Bisa Butler to Give Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture

Posted on February 26, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged Event Highlight, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

From Hairbrush to Hairwork: A Workshop with Karen Bachmann

Posted on February 19, 2021

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!

Posted in BlogTagged Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Student Research, Textiles

Written in Silk: Dr. Marjon Ornstein Preserves Unique Turkish Textile

Posted on February 5, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged Adopt-a-Textile, CDMC Supporters, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Textiles

An Aria in Hats, Lace and Silk

Posted on February 5, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged CDMC Supporters, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Material Culture, Textiles

CDMC Conversation Series with Annette Becker

Posted on February 3, 2021

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.

Posted in BlogTagged Event Highlight, Textiles
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