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Events
Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape explores the parallel processes of quilt-making within the American home and place-making on the American landscape. Featuring nineteenth- and twentieth-century American quilts drawn from the Helen Louise Allen …
Open House for the Art History Centennial Celebration
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join the Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture in celebrating 100 years of Art History at UW-Madison! Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery: Drop in with curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz in the exhibition Parallel …
WIP Lab Workshop: Cyanotypes
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join artist and PhD student Kean O’Brien to explore cyanotypes in this workshop! Create striking cyan-blue images by placing objects on a light-sensitive surface and exposing them to sunlight. Unlike other photographic techniques, cyanotype is …
DS-CDMC Lecture Series: Libby O’Bryan
Elizabeth Holloway Schar Hall, 5th Floor | Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Register What is it Worth? An experiment in the value of domestic labor and skill During her career in NYC’s garment industry, Libby O’Bryan witnessed many sewing jobs move overseas and was haunted by the …
WIP Lab Workshop: 3D Printing
Nancy Nicholas Hall @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join PhD student Ely Rendon for this hands-on workshop introducing the fundamentals of digital modeling and rapid prototyping through 3D printing. Participants will learn how to transform 2D sketches into basic 3D models using open-source …
WIP Lab Workshop: Handmade Paper Quilt Tops with Sam Northcut
Multiple locations -
Join artist Sam Northcut (MFA ’25) to learn to make paper quilts in this 2-part workshop! Starting with the basics of large sheet paper making, participants will make 6′ x 4′ sheets as a group, …
Find Your Quilt
Ruth Davis Design Gallery @ 10:00 am - @ 4:00 pm
This exhibition invites you to Find Your Quilt. A quilt can be artistic and designed, scientific and mathematical, political and personal. Quilts offer windows into the past, or hopes for the future. Find Your Quilt …
Fall Exhibition Celebration
Nancy M. Bruce Center for Design and Material Culture @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us in celebrating both exhibitions in the CDMC’s Year of Quilts: Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape and Find Your Quilt. October 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Nancy Nicholas Hall Link …
Quilt Exhibitions Bus Tour
@ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Join us on Saturday, October 18 to visit four quilt exhibitions across southeastern Wisconsin! For this daylong adventure, coach buses will shuttle visitors between the Center for Design and Material Culture (Madison), the Textile Art …
