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 …

Graphic of a old plot map of Wisconsin with squares filled in with pieces of quilts. In the bottom right corner is text that reads "Parallel Lines Quilts and the American Landscape."

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 …

Graphic with colorful quilt triangles pointing in various directions on a white background with yellow text in the center that reads "Find Your Quilt."

Build a Block workshop with Dr. Sharbreon Plummer

@ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Build a Block: Simple Raw Edge Appliqué Drop in to create a quilt block with this year’s Harris Lecturer, artist and public scholar Dr. Sharbreon Plummer. Participants will use raw edge appliqué to shape a …

A photo of hands working at a table scattered with fabric, scissors, thread, and glue sticks. A quilt block depicts a tower struck by lightning and one fire.

Quilt Documentation Day

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Calling all quilts and the people who love them: find out more about your quilted treasure! Help us save the stories in the stitches by bringing your precious family heirlooms (or modern creations) to the …

Detail shot of flying geese quilt pattern.

Public Gallery Tour: Parallel Lines

@ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Join curator Dr. Marina Moskowitz for a tour of Parallel Lines: Quilts and the American Landscape. Discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and explore the materials and methods in the exhibit. This tour will …

A cropped view of a log cabin quilt, in which the strips form diamonds of light and dark.

Public Gallery Tour: Find Your Quilt

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join curator Dr. Sophie Pitman for a tour of Find Your Quilt. Discuss the quilts on view, ask questions, and explore the materials and methods in the exhibit. This tour will also include a special …

Cropped photo of a white quilt with light pink floral designs radiating out from the middle.

Community Quilting Workshop: Advancing the Process

Carlee Latimer
Ruth Davis Design Gallery
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

In this hands-on workshop led by artist Carlee Latimer, we’ll once again lift Together-together* from the gallery wall and gather around the quilting frame to continue exploring the collaborative, creative process of discovering all that …

The word "quilts" is spelled out in all caps in red pieced letters on a patchwork quilt.

Quilts are Jazz

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us for an evening of jazz performances inspired by quilts! In collaboration with the Mead Witter School of Music jazz studies program, the Creative Music Collective (directed by Anders Svanoe) will perform original compositions …

A close cropped view of a geometric quilt with radiating blocks of blue, pink, green, and purple creating an optical effect.

Small Matter

Nancy Nicholas Hall
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Soccer is the world’s most popular game, but experiences of the game are remarkably different around the world. When children do not have the luxury of affording a mass-produced soccer ball, they take to the …

A large sphere is made up of small white dots on an orange background. Text above the sphere reads "small matter."

WIP Lab Workshop: Neon-Inspired Wire Bending

Nancy Nicholas Hall
@ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Join PhD student Skye Xollo to learn how to create sculptures that mimic the look of glowing neon. In this all-levels workshop, you’ll learn to sketch a design, shape armature wire using techniques inspired by …

Photo of a yellow-green neon light. Text on masking tape above the image reads "WIP Lab Workshop." Text on brown paper below the photo reads "Neon-Inspired Wire Bending with Skye Xollo."